DINNER PARTNERS with Christopher & Eric

This episode of Heartland Horrors Month surprises Christopher and Eric with a 1990's serial killing spree that found gay men being targeted in one of the Midwest's most progressive cities, a story that somehow managed to escape the notice of your queer-savvy hosts until now. In season 2, episode 6 of HOMETOWN HOMICIDE entitled "Unsafe Anywhere", we head to Minneapolis/St. Paul where a vicious, sel...

Heartland Horrors Month continues as Christopher and Eric give the coast-hugging, city dwellers among us several good reasons not to leave their urban idylls. And season 5, episode 1 of HOMICIDE FOR THE HOLIDAYS — never a show for the faint of heart — just might take the cake for most gruesome episode in TDPS history. In "The Last Thanksgiving", your hosts are confronted by a crime that is shockin...

Leave it to Christopher and Eric to come up with reasons *not* to go home for the holidays. That's apparently the objective of Heartland Horrors Month here at TDPS, starting with this twisted tale of double lives and chatty wives. In season 1, episode 6 of MURDER IN THE HEARTLAND entitled, "A Deceitful Heart", we head to a Detroit suburb where everyone's desperate to tell you what a quaint and who...

In the second episode in a two parter serving up the landmark HBO documentary series LAST CALL: WHEN A SERIAL KILLER STALKED QUEER NEW YORK, Christopher and Eric are left breathless. The reveals come fast and furious throughout as the conclusion comes into focus in this moving exploration of a serial killer who used homophobia to thrive. Forensic science advances. A killer is unmasked. Heroes and...

Some murders happen twice in a row. First comes the killing, then comes the erasure of the victim by the very institutions equipped to find the perpetrator.  Christopher and Eric mark the tragic anniversary of the brutal slaying of Billy Newton, whose decades old murder was solved thanks in part to the attention brought to it by this podcast, by serving up the first two episodes of a landmark HBO...

Sometimes a host of gory details only serves to distract from the real story. Eric believes that may well be the case with this episode of HOMICIDE FOR THE HOLIDAYS, season 4, episode 1, entitled "Halloween Horror". When the Liskey family is massacred in their sleep the night before Halloween, their isolated Ohio farmhouse becomes a scene of horrifying mystery. Blood splatter evidence abounds, but...

We’re renaming October as we celebrate the legacy of our beloved Premiere Party Person, Anne Rice, born this month of darkness, mystery and transition. Travel along with Christopher and Eric has they share their memories of the woman who changed fiction forever. As your hosts reminiscence about book signings and fan club gatherings of yore, we'll even hear from Anne herself, with a special archiva...

Back to School month comes to a devastating conclusion with this disturbing exploration of a case that's been the butt of too many jokes and not enough explorations into the twisted manipulations employed by the seemingly gentle predator at its core.  As Christopher and Eric serve up the documentary MARK KAY LETOURNEAU: NOTES ON A SCANDAL, they're whisked back to the 1990's when a school teacher's...

It's a quiet night in a small Texas panhandle town when one of its most beloved high school students vanishes, leaving behind a threadbare trail of mystifying clues. Within hours of the discovery of Tom Brown's abandoned SUV, one of the most baffling unsolved true crime stories of a generation is born. What truly happened to this beloved high school senior who'd recently been cut from the football...

Back to School Month continues as Christopher and Eric head to a posh New England prep school where secrecy and lies mask a legacy of abuse. But this tragedy extends far beyond the leafy borders of the seemingly idyllic campus of St. George's School, founded in the 19th Century to educate the offspring of the Gilded Age elite. A stunning expose in Vanity Fair magazine unveils the lengths administr...

Christopher and Eric kick off Back to School month, a quartet of episodes about the crimes endured by high school and college students as well as their loved ones. When Christian Aguilar begins his freshman year at the University of Florida in Gainesville, he's the first member of his family to attend college. But when he vanishes in the course of a single evening, his proud and devoted family vow...

There are bad movies and then there are truly terrible movies. But do any of them ever star Robert Duvall? Find out as Christopher and Eric bring you the second episode in a true crime pairing about the mystery of D.B. Cooper and his still unsolved skyjacking of an American airliner. Your hosts thought THE PURSUIT OF D.B. COOPER might make for a fun and frothy end to their True Crime Movie Time Su...

After so many episodes of bloodshed and mayhem, Christopher and Eric bring their True Crime movie Time Summer Film Festival in for a soft landing. Here your hosts bring you a true crime pairing about one of the most talked about, argued about, debated about, and speculated about unsolved mysteries in American history, the mystery of D.B. Cooper. On Thanksgiving Eve 1971, a man claiming to be D.C....

Pacific Northwest Nightmares continues. Christopher and Eric offer a frank and strong view about a made-for-TV movie that attempts to draw a connection between two of the region's most notorious serial killers. Despite a sterling performance by Cary Elwes as Ted Bundy, your hosts find little to admire in THE RIVERMAN, but much to dissect about the its real life subjects. Is this the story of an ar...

Don your waterproof slicker and pull on those thigh high rain boots. It's time for the storm drenched final leg of Christopher and Eric's True Crime Movie Time Summer Film Festival, Pacific Northwest Nightmares. Gary Ridgway was a predator so prolific and diabolical he became a household name. Better known as the Green River Killer, his decades long reign of terror in Washington State revealed pol...

The Southern Sins portion of the True Crime Movie Time Summer Film Festival concludes with DEVIL'S KNOT, a screen adaptation of one the most widely publicized and divisive true crime cases in recent American history, the story of the West Memphis Three. But does this Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth big screen vehicle tell the story we came to hear? Your hosts Christopher and Eric have no shortag...

How have Christopher and Eric gone this long without discussing the Robin Hood Hill murders, the case that essentially gave birth to the modern day true crime genre? In this installment of Christopher & Eric's True Crime TV Club, they serve up THE WEST MEMPHIS THREE: AN ID MURDER MYSTERY, which encapsulates the dark saga of gruesome murder and rank injustice that divided a town and spawned several...

Southern Sins continues with the second in a true crime pairing. This particular installment of True Crime Movie Time presents a searing and disturbing cinematic look at a South Florida murder steeped in sexual repression, abuse and addiction. No stranger to controversy, director Larry Clark made a name for himself chronicling the lives of America's troubled and disaffected youth. So it's no surpr...

Christopher and Eric kick off the Southern Sins portion of their True Crime Movie Time Summer Film Festival with this wrenching look at addiction and murder among a group of disaffected teens in the Sunshine State. Meet Bobby Kent, a popular and good looking weight lifter — and a bully so vicious his closest friends decided there was only one way to put an end to his abuse. This installment of Tru...

In their discussion of the 1973 film BADLANDS, Christopher and Eric wrestle with their own belief in artistic freedom while confronting a dramatized version of real life crimes that essentially rewrites history in its pursuit of artistic license. The directorial debut of American cinema icon Terence Malick changes the names to protect not just the innocent, but the guilty as well. While the movie...

Midwest Mayhem departs the big and dirty city and heads to the bleak countryside for its second true crime pairing, the disturbing story of Charles Starkweather and Carol Fugate, two young killers whose gruesome crimes shocked a nation and inspired numerous film versions in the years that followed. In THE REAL 'NATURAL BORN KILLER', CHARLES STARKWEATHER (BORN TO KILL), available to stream on the O...

Some days your hosts think this podcast should be retitled THIS IS NOT THE MOVIE WE REMEMBER. Such were the feelings of both Christopher and Eric when they revisited what many consider to be a classic mafia film. If by classic you mean shot through with the dangerously self-assured, vigilante ethos of the Reagan years and a penchant for absurdly wild spectacle that throws history out the window. T...

Christopher and Eric kick off the Midwest Mayhem portion of their True Crime Movie Time Summer Film Festival with an all new true crime pairing devoted to two of the most mythologized figures in the history of American organized crime. Thanks to its snarky European producers, the documentary ELIOT NESS VS. AL CAPONE offers vicious commentary about the so-called land of the free. (To our Chicago ba...

East Coast Carnage wraps up the second half of another true crime pairing as the True Crime Movie Time Summer Film Festival continues its exploration of the Son of Sam killings. Spike Lee is one of our most skillful and accomplished filmmakers. He's also no stranger to controversy. But does his film SUMMER OF SAM inspire the wrong controversy and for all the wrong reasons? Forget David Berkworitz...

East Coast Carnage heads to the Big Apple and the Five Boroughs as Christopher & Eric's True Crime Movie Time Summer Film Festival continues. For the first time, Christopher and Eric tackle one of the most notorious serial killer cases of all time, the Son of Sam killings, which terrified the New York area during the late 1970's. As they serve up this episode of WORLD'S MOST EVIL KILLERS: DAVID BE...