Murder Coaster

Christa Gail Pike became the first person in history to ever survive a lethal injection, just last Wednesday, September 30, 2026. She was the youngest woman ever sentenced to death, and would have been the first woman executed in the state of Tennessee in over 200 years. Today we will give you a detailed, moment by moment examination of her botched execution, followed by a reexamination of her sho...

Cult leader Leon Cunningham preached the end was near, that the Antichrist was coming and all must repent to ensure their names were written in blood in the Book of the Lamb, otherwise be doomed to eternal damnation and hell fire. Believing the devil had infiltrated their group, in 1976 Leon and his ragtag cult performed a violent exorcism on three-year-old Davey Weilbacher that ended in horrible...

Today we bring you one of the most disturbing and horrifying stories from the world of true crime, but it is also a story of strength and survival against all odds. It is the story of Mary Vincent and the Mad Chopper Lawrence Singleton.   MURDER COASTER PODCAST Hosted by Christa Carmen and Matthew Brockmeyer Website:  www.murdercoasterpodcast.com Facebook:  Murder Coaster Instagram:  https://www.i...

Welcome back to our second and final episode on Courtney Tailor Clenney: e-girl, Playboy model, OnlyFans performer and murderer.   MURDER COASTER PODCAST Hosted by Christa Carmen and Matthew Brockmeyer Website:  www.murdercoasterpodcast.com Facebook:  Murder Coaster Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/murdercoasterpodcast/   Creepy Amusement Park theme by Brandon Fiechter and Derek Fiechter, use...

Sex, drugs, money and murder, today we bring you the story of e-girl, Playboy model, OnlyFans performer and killer: Courtney Tailor Clenney!! Strap in, it's wild as hell!   MURDER COASTER PODCAST Hosted by Christa Carmen and Matthew Brockmeyer Website:  www.murdercoasterpodcast.com Facebook:  Murder Coaster Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/murdercoasterpodcast/   Creepy Amusement Park theme b...

 Today we bring you a truly heart-wrenching story of what is possibly the most brutal crime in modern English history, a murder that sent shock waves throughout the United Kingdom and the world, not just because of the horror and sadism involved, but because of the innocence of the victim, who was just 17 years old. A schoolgirl who found herself in a romantic relationship with a sadistic killer,...

Our second and final episode on Robin Gecht and his infamous Chicago Ripper Crew.   MURDER COASTER PODCAST Hosted by Christa Carmen and Matthew Brockmeyer Website:  www.murdercoasterpodcast.com Facebook:  Murder Coaster Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/murdercoasterpodcast/   Creepy Amusement Park theme by Brandon Fiechter and Derek Fiechter, used by permission and with many thanks.   RESOURC...

Today we bring you one of the most bizarre and gruesome tales from the heyday of American crime, a devil-worshipping cult of cannibalistic, necrophiliac serial killers, like something from a nightmare or horror movie, who roamed the streets of Chicago in a death van snatching completely random victims. Prepare yourselves for the story of the horrible, cold-blooded and terrifying, Robin Gecht and h...

Our third and final episode on Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold and the Columbine High School tragedy. If you or someone you know is struggling, you are not alone. You can call or text 988 or use the webchat at 988lifeline.org to connect with the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline — available 24/7, free, and confidential. For listeners outside the U.S., you can find other international hotlines here:  http...

Welcome back to Part Two of our series on Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold and the Columbine High School Massacre. MURDER COASTER PODCAST Hosted by Christa Carmen and Matthew Brockmeyer Website:  www.murdercoasterpodcast.com Facebook:  Murder Coaster Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/murdercoasterpodcast/   Creepy Amusement Park theme by Brandon Fiechter and Derek Fiechter, used by permission and wi...

The Columbine High School Massacre of April 20, 1999 is an incident which ushered in a horrible new normal of school shootings. But it wasn’t the first, and from the beginning the case has been clouded with myths, mistruths and outright lies. Today we seek to uncover the facts about Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who they were, what they hoped to accomplish, and how two gifted students and compute...

Hans Schmidt was many things, a Catholic priest, a mystic and scholar, a forger and counterfeiter, a necrophiliac and sexual deviant, a convicted murderer and suspected serial killer. He was also the only priest in history to be executed in the United States, having been electrocuted in Sing Sing prison on February 18, 1916. MURDER COASTER PODCAST Hosted by Christa Carmen and Matthew Brockmeyer We...

On Holy Saturday, April 5, 1980, Catholic nun Sister Margaret Ann Pahl was murdered in a chapel in Toledo, Ohio in a ritualistic manner many thought was a human sacrifice to the devil. There was only one suspect, a moody and brooding priest named Father Gerald Robinson; but, in what many considered an elaborate conspiracy involving police, bishops, prosecutors and church officials, no charges were...

17-year-old Tyler Hadley desperately wanted to throw a party in his parents’ house, so on Saturday, July 16, 2011, he ate three hits of ecstasy and bludgeoned his mom and dad to death with the claw end of a 22-inch framing hammer, then posted on Facebook he was having a party. While his parents’ corpses rotted in their locked bedroom, over a hundred teenagers showed up at his house, raging the nig...

Welcome back to our second and final episode on the story of Shasta Groene and the monster Joseph Edward Duncan.   MURDER COASTER PODCAST Hosted by Christa Carmen and Matthew Brockmeyer Website:  www.murdercoasterpodcast.com Facebook:  Murder Coaster Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/murdercoasterpodcast/   Creepy Amusement Park theme by Brandon Fiechter and Derek Fiechter, used by permission...

When Shasta Groene was eight years old, she survived 47 days in the forest with the serial killer and apex child predator who’d killed her family and abducted her: Joseph Edward Duncan. Her tale of survival in the hands of this brutal monster is beyond harrowing and disturbing, but it is also a tale of resilience, hope, and, eventually, healing. Listener discretion is strongly advised.   MURDER CO...

Richard McCroskey was a sad and lonely wannabe rapper, who went by “Syko Sam” in the world of horrorcore hip hop, who found love on the internet when he met sixteen-year-old Emma Niederbrock, who went by “Ragdoll,” on Myspace. But when she broke his heart, he murdered her, her entire family, and her best friend Melanie Wells, in what has become known as the Farmville Murders, earning him the monik...

Border Patrol Agent Juan David Ortiz was a devoutly religious family man with three children.  He was highly educated with a master’s degree in international relations. He was a patriot and Iraq War Veteran. He was also a serial killer targeting the sex workers on Laredo, Texas’s infamous San Bernardo Avenue.   MURDER COASTER PODCAST Hosted by Christa Carmen and Matthew Brockmeyer Website:  www.mu...

Colin Pitchfork, the Footpath Phantom, was a murdering serial rapist who haunted the dark woods and paths of South Leicestershire England, stalking teenage girls like a troll in a fairy tale, and who would become the first killer ever caught and convicted with DNA evidence, a bizarre story with more twists, turns and red herrings than any mystery novel. MURDER COASTER PODCAST Hosted by Christa Car...

“Eddie” Heriberto Seda was a serial killer with an uncanny resemblance to Eddie Munster, who was obsessed with sorcery, necromancy, astronomy, magic and spells, and who envisioned himself as a continuation of the infamous Zodiac Killer who’d terrorized San Francisco twenty years earlier. Like the original Zodiac Killer, Eddie wrote bizarre letters to the press and police, plunging New York into a...

Today we bring you a sad tale of punk rock defiance, laid low by a conformist in a Cadillac, and how the verdict of a town without pity shocked the world. It is the story of Brian Deneke and the Death of Sunshine.   Today’s episode is filled with amazing bands from around the world who donated music, you can hear most of them on this Spotify Playlist and find all their links in the notes below. DE...

Welcome back to the second and final episode of Fast Times at Upper Merion High and the story of the Main Line Murders. Get ready for craziness, for today’s episodes has more twists and turns than a python in a pretzel factory, and enough sex and drugs to make a hippie blush. When we last left you things were really heating up in the elite upper-class Philadelphia suburb of Main Line as English te...

Long before high school English teacher Susan Reinert was found dead, naked and beaten in the hatchback of her Plymouth Horizon, it was obvious that the staff of Upper Merion High were out of control and engaged in debauchery of all sorts. The principal, Dr Jay C. Smith, whom staff and students alike referred to as the Prince of Darkness, had a penchant for bestiality, robbery and drug dealing. Th...

Amelia Dyer, the Ogress of Reading, is believed to be responsible for the murder of up to 400 infants, delighting in their struggles as she strangled them to death, in late Victorian England. Amelia, who was part of an underground network of baby farms, left dead babies in her wake everywhere she went, buried in gardens, tossed into weeds, thrown into the river. Happy Holidays! It’s a doozy, liste...

Gary Heidnik, the inspiration behind Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs, was many things. The bishop of his own church. A savvy financial investor with a genius level IQ.  A cannibal and cult leader trying to create his own perfect race of humans, as well as a murderer and serial rapist and registered nurse. Strap in and prepare for a rough ride, listener discretion advised.   MURDER COASTER...