Murder Coaster

Richard Chizmar joins the show to discuss his new book Becoming the Boogeyman a blending of true crime and horror fiction.. Richard is not only a New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Amazon and Publishers weekly bestselling author, screenwriter and extremely prolific short story writer, he is also the founder of Cemetery Dance Magazine and the Cemetery Dance book imprin...

The Wineville Chicken Coop murders stand as some of the most horrifying and unsettling chapters in the annals of true crime, marked by a plot twist so bizarre it defies belief. Today, we delve into these gruesome crimes through a four-act narrative we've titled "A Tale of Two Mothers." Sarah Louise Northcott's love for her son, Gordon, knew no bounds. Gordon was a charismatic, intelligent, and gif...

The Leslie Van Houten Story Part 2: Marauders in the desert, the way of the coyote, arrest, trial, rehabilitation and release. Leslie has gone from flower-power, love-child hippie to marauding, violent outlaw running wild in the desert of Death Valley under the command of the Infinite Soul Charlie Manson. Then it all comes crashing down. The Family is busted and crazy Sexy Sadie is telling anyone...

From Homecoming Queen to Acid Orgies: The Leslie Van Houten Story Part 1 After 53 years in prison, former Manson Family member Leslie Van Houten is now a free woman. This is her story. Leslie sang in the choir as a little girl and lived to dance, sliding across the wooden floors of the Harmony Ballroom in Anaheim to the surf rock sounds of Dick Dale. As a teenager she heard the hippie call to turn...

The craziest suspected serial killer you probably never heard of! In 1982 Treasury Department agents were hot on the trail of a counterfeiter traveling across the country passing off fake twenties at shopping malls, earning him the monicker “The Mall Passer.” Authorities would eventually apprehend Mike DeBardeleben, and the horrors they would uncover when they searched his many storage compartment...

Get ready for a rootin-tootin, true-crime good time, as we get into the life of notorious Wild West outlaw, gunslinger, and old-time serial killer Levi Boone Helm: The Kentucky Cannibal. The American Frontier of the 1800s was a ruthless, brutal and lawless place where might made right and violence reigned, and no one epitomized this savagery better than Boone Helms. Boone Helms’s reign of terror a...

Every abandoned place is haunted, if not by the ghosts of the dead, then by the relics of the past. And no place appears more eerie and forlorn than the abandoned amusement park. Today we will be covering two abandoned and haunted amusement parks. First there's the Rocky Point Amusement Park in Rhode Island. Most locals scoff at the supposed Gypsy curse that's said to be upon Rocky Point Amusement...

What were the real beliefs of Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell? We get nitty-gritty and trace it back to an 1860 Mormon offshoot group called The Church of the Firstborn, a dooms-day cult that believed in reincarnation and started a war. We also take a deep dive into the entire twisted tale of Lori Vallow, detailing the lives of both Lori and Chad, how they met and came to hold the bizarre beliefs tha...

Randy Kraft was one of the most prolific serial killers in American history, and also one of the most brutal, cruel and sadistic. It is believed he killed at least 67 young men and boys from 1971 to 1983, marking each victim down in code on a score card. Join us for the third and final installment in our Freeway Killers series, where we have taken deep dives into the methodologies, histories and p...

William “Billy” Bonin would be described by prosecutors as, “the most arch evil person who has ever existed.” A decorated Vietnam War hero, he was also a sexually sadistic serial killer who murdered over 21 young men and boys in a death van with an accomplice dressed as Darth Vader who performed magic tricks to subdue their victims. He would become the first person put to death by lethal injection...

There were upward of twenty serial killers at work in Southern California in the late seventies and early eighties, earning Los Angeles the title “Serial Killer Capital of the World.” Three of these brutal killers were targeting young men and boys, leaving their bodies strewn over roadways, each of them becoming known as the Freeway Killer. Over the next three episodes we will take deep looks at e...

Everyone in the small community of Springfield, Missouri adored Dee Dee Blanchard and her disabled daughter Gypsy Rose. They were survivors of hurricane Katrina and had been through so much. Gypsy was quadriplegic, had been in a wheelchair most her short life, and suffered from a host of ailments, including leukemia, epilepsy, and muscular dystrophy, she was also severely mentally handicapped, but...

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....

As a season finale bonus we bring you the truth behind the Ruth Price 911 call! Often cited as the most terrifying 911 call of all time, its origin and authenticity have been debated for decades. Is it real? Is it fake? We bring you the recently uncovered answer! Stay tuned afterwards for exciting information about Season 2!! Website: www.murdercoasterpodcast.com Facebook: Murder Coaster Instagram...

The deadliest mass shooting in the history of California took place on July 18, 1984 in a McDonald's in San Ysidro.. In this episode we take you on a meticulously researched journey back to that fateful day, piecing together the events leading up to the massacre, the chilling details of the attack itself, and the aftermath that forever changed the lives of the survivors and the community. The perp...

All the grisly details of the crimes that shook the internet to the core, and how the internet struck back! Join us for part two of our true crime deep dive into the bizarre life and crimes of murderer Luka Manotta, and see how even after being capture and put in prison, he continues his bizarre mirror maze of reality, morphing like a chameleon and distorting reality to fit whatever role he choose...

Prepare to enter the dark and perplexing mirror maze of Luka Magnotta with the first of our two episode deep dive. There is no greater modern freak show than the internet, and this is the realm where Luka Magnotta worked, using thousands of fake accounts to promote himself as a model, gay porn star, murderer and necrophile. Magnotta's crimes and the subsequent media frenzy captured the attention o...

The snuff film. What is it, and is it real or just an urban legend? And what kind of person would get sexual gratification from watching one? We'll explore these questions, as well as take a deep dive into two men whose obsession with snuff films led them to trying to make their own. First there's Jamie Reynolds from Shropshire, UK, whose obsession with violent pornography and snuff films led him...

Prepare yourselves for a brutal descent into madness and murder as we explore the life of Marcus Wesson, a man who attempted to create a pure vampire race by impregnating his own daughters and nieces, culminating in a family annihilation that left nine dead and experienced police officers shaken to the core and weeping like babies. Today we cover . . . the Vampire King of Fresno and the Wesson Fam...

In 1977 three Girl Scouts were dragged from their tent in the middle of the night and savagely beaten, raped, and murdered. This is the story of two men, one a killer, the other a law man, one a fugitive, one a purveyor of justice, one good, one evil. But both these men will use ancient Native American magic and medicine to achieve their goals in the largest manhunt in the history of the South Wes...

Our most brutal episode yet! Gerard John Schaefer was many things. He was a cop. He was a murderer and necrophile and friend of Ted Bundy. He was a sexual sadist and a writer, of sorts, and, as we'll see, he was also the narcissistic scumbag of the century. Buckle up, this is one crazy ride! Website: www.murdercoasterpodcast.com Facebook: Murder Coaster Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/murderc...

It's blood-sucking ghouls time!! Today we compare and contrast the crimes and psychology of three modern-day vampires. The bloody-thirsty delusions of murderer Richard Chase, the Sacramento Vampire. The sadistic and sexual blood lust of John Crutchley, the Vampire Rapist. And the saddest road trip ever of the murderous Rod Ferrell, the Kentucky Teenage Vampire. Website: www.murdercoasterpodcast.co...

Who killed Gerard Soules? Gerard Soules was the youngest and greatest trapeze artist of all time and went on to become the Poodle King of Las Vegas with his world famous dog act. But he was found dead with his throat slit and over forty stab wounds. Who would kill such an amazing man? And did an innocent man spend over two decades in prison for a crime he didn't commit? Join us to find out!! Creep...

Pazuzu Algarad thought being filthy gave him magical powers and started his very own sex cult in his mom’s house, a literal house of horrors that would be deemed unfit for human occupation and razed to the ground. He also destroyed countless lives and left three murdered corpses in his wake. Website: www.murdercoasterpodcast.com Facebook: Murder Coaster Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/murderc...

What is the meaning of the word "freak" and how has it changed through the ages?   We'll explore that as well as give a short history of the sideshow, followed by the sad and murderous life of infamous freak show performer Gary Stiles Jr., aka, Lobster Boy.     Sarah's paper can be found right here: FREAK SHOW PSYCHOLOGY Website: www.murdercoasterpodcast.com Facebook: Murder Coaster   Instagram: h...