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Welcome back to Part 3 of the Tragic Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe.   Today we continue with Edgar living in Philadelphia with Virginia, his teenage cousin wife, and his Aunt Maria, during his most prolific time, when he became obsessed with true crime and began writing the world's first detective stories, Edgar becoming obsessed with the real-life murder of the Beautiful Cigar Girl...

Cohost Christa Carmen tells us about her newest novel and the brief and forlorn love affair between Edgar Allan Poe and poet Sarah Helen Whitman. Christa’s website: Christa Carmen Beneath the Poet’s House: Amazon.com: Beneath the Poet's House: A Thriller: 9781662513275: Carmen, Christa: Books   MURDER COASTER PODCAST Hosted by Christa Carmen and Matthew Brockmeyer Website:  www.murdercoasterpodcas...

Merry Christmas everyone, please enjoy our rendition of THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH by Edgar Allan Poe.   Beneath the Poet’s House by Christa Carmen: Amazon.com: Beneath the Poet's House: A Thriller: 9781662513275: Carmen, Christa: Books   MURDER COASTER PODCAST Hosted by Christa Carmen and Matthew Brockmeyer Website:  www.murdercoasterpodcast.com Facebook:  Murder Coaster Instagram:  https://www....

Welcome back to Part 2 of the Tragic Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe, picking up right where we left off, with a wild and wily young Eddie entering West Point Military Academy where whacky hijinks would soon ensue.   MURDER COASTER PODCAST   Hosted by Christa Carmen and Matthew Brockmeyer Website:  www.murdercoasterpodcast.com Facebook:  Murder Coaster Instagram:  https://www.instagra...

Dearest listeners, we welcome you on our journey through the tragic life and mysterious death of Edgar Allan Poe.   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...

Murder Coaster presents: THE RAVEN and THE TELL TALE HEART   Greetings dear listeners, we’re taking the week off, but didn’t want to leave you without some content for your listening pleasure.   So, in honor of Christa’s new novel Beneath the Poet’s House which is releasing on Tuesday and involves the story of Edgar Allan Poe, we have decided to give you a reading of some of Poe’s most iconic work...

Sex, lies and family annihilation. Grant Amato would do anything to continue his relationship with cam girl Ady Sweet. Anything. Including the cold-blooded murder of his entire family   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...

Brothers Tas and Ben Pappas skyrocketed to the top of the skateboard world, ranked number one and two in the world, and embarked on a rockstar lifestyle of hard drugs, fast living and bitter feuds before plummeting to the bottom in a pit of addiction and murder.   Hear the whole wild, wild story this week on Murder Coaster!   MURDER COASTER PODCAST Hosted by Christa Carmen and Matthew Brockmeyer W...

In November of 2016 a group of workers on a pot farm in California’s infamous Emerald Triangle were plotting the murder of their boss Jeff Settler, also known as Jesus Jeff.   At the same exact time Proposition 64 was being passed by voters, legalizing marijuana for recreational use, and the outlaw culture of hippie cannabis farmers would never be the same.   Join us as we take a ride into the Eme...

What happens when a dead head hippie accidentally ends up in a stolen car full of guns driven by a Nazi skinhead and is then framed for the murder of a cop?   Legendary Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson steps in, of course, taking on the Denver Police Department and the State of Colorado in his last great crusade.   Hear all about it this week on Murder Coaster!   MURDER COASTER PODCAST Hosted b...

Happy Halloween and a Merry Samhain! It’s the pinnacle of Vampire October and today we bring you an incredibly creepy and sad tale of generation X. The story of lost teenagers searching for anything that would give life their lives meaning and purpose, who found vampires and murder.   This is the story of Roderick Justin Ferrell and his cult of Kentucky teenage vampires.   MURDER COASTER PODCAST H...

It’s vampire October and this week’s blood-sucking ghoul is one of the most terrifying killers you’ve ever heard of, a highly-intelligent, sexually-motivated monster with the genius level IQ of 168 who used syringes and surgical tubing to drain his victims of their blood, and used stealth and cunning to deceive law enforcement for decades before his shocking and scandalous down fall.   Strap in, f...

Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, to Vampire October!   Today we explore the disturbing life and crimes of one of the most infamous real-life vampires, Richard Trenton Chase, the Vampire of Sacramento, uncovering the dark psychology behind his gruesome murders, his descent into madness, and the horrifying events that shocked the world.   MURDER COASTER PODCAST Hosted by Christa Carmen and Matthe...

The most disturbingly horrifying and frightening tale you have ever heard, today we bring you the story of Peter Kürten: the Vampire of Düsseldorf.   It’s Vampire October and as Halloween approaches, we will be bringing you true tales of blood-drinking ghouls all month long.   Peter Kurten set the standard for what we know today as sexually-motivated serial killers, and his cruelty knew no bounds....

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen to Vampire October!   All month long we will be bringing you tales of ghoulish blood drinking fiends, and to kick it off, we’re bringing you a bonus episode on the history of the vampire film!   And we are pleased to be joined today by long time friend of the show, Mark Conway from the Horror Movies and Shit podcast.   We’re going to start with the very first vampire...

The legend of Countess Elizabeth Bathory has inspired countless horror movies and heavy metal bands. This enigmatic woman has come to be seen by modern culture as a vampiric monster obsessed with youth and beauty who bathed in the blood of virgin servant girls as a means of staying young. Yet there is no historical record of this and these bizarre accusations came a hundred years after her death....

Today we cover the horrific slaying of Elyse Pahler, a beautiful girl sacrificed to the devil by the teenage death-metal band Hatred.   Strap in, ladies and gentlemen, and prepare for horrifying tale of heavy metal, devil worship, teenage angst run wild, and Satanic Sacrifice in Southern California.   It’s a post-modern mirror maze of Satanic Panic where life imitates art imitates life in a horren...

Today we cover the possession and exorcism of murderer Michael Taylor who was a devoted family man and mild-mannered, working-class Englishman before encountering a strange cult-like sect of the Anglican Church.   An utterly bizarre story of strange religious beliefs culminating in a murder so vicious and gory it left seasoned investigators vomiting and shaken to their core. Was it the demons of i...

When Doctor Benjamin Gilmer started work at the Cane Creek Family Health Center he knew the previous doctor, Vincent Gilmer, had murdered his father, but he just thought it was an odd coincidence that they both shared the last name, something that folks would soon forget about.   Little did he know that he would soon find himself descending into a bizarre rabbit hole, one that began with fear, par...

We are thrilled to have Emerson Murray author of MURDER CAPITAL OF THE WORLD: The Santa Cruz Community Looks Back at the John Linley Frazier, Herbert Mullin, and Edmund Kemper Murder Sprees of the Early 1970s on the show with us today!   MURDER CAPITAL OF THE WORLD is a modern classic in true crime featuring unparalleled research into the history of Santa Cruz, California and the horrible murders...

The Trailside Killer. Welcome back to the finale of our series on Santa Cruz, California, Murder Capital of the World. Today we enter a new decade, the 1980s, as we cover a new killer stalking the redwood forests and beaches, David Joseph Carpenter.   David Carpenter held Northern California in a grip of fear, murdering and raping hikers exploring the forests, becoming known as the Trailside Kille...

Karen Greenlee was an unapologetic necrophiliac who confessed to having sex with the bodies of up to forty dead young men, some at the funeral home where she worked, others in mortuaries she broke into at night.   On December 17, 1979 ,Karen became infamous after stealing a hearse and absconding with the corpse inside to feed her dark, sexual desires.   Hear the whole crazy story right here in the...

Welcome back to Part 2 of Edmund Kemper in our own going series on Santa Cruz California, Murder Capital of the World.   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 permiss...

Today we cover the big bad daddy of the Santa Cruz killers, and when we say big, we mean most literally, for he was a six-foot-nine, 285-pound giant of a man, but with the heart of a sad and lonely little boy, we are of course talking about Big Ed Kemper!   Edmund Kemper would be one of the first to define the modern serial killer, being studied by the FBI’s Robert Ressler who would later coin the...

Welcome back to Santa Cruz, California, Murder Capital of the world.   Today we delve into the life and crimes of serial killer Herbert Mullin, a deeply disturbed man who roamed the redwoods and beaches of Santa Cruz with voices in his head telling him he must kill in order to save California from an imminent earthquake, leaving thirteen corpses in his horrible wake.   Yes, step right, step right...