BEHIND THE SCREAMS: Dracula & Vlad the Impaler
In the 15th century, conflicts between the Ottoman Empire and neighboring Wallachia (wall-ache-ia) rocked Eastern Europe. The Wallachian Arm...
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BASED ON A TRUE CRIME is a podcast where Chelsea’s love of true crime and David’s love of horror movies intersect.
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BEHIND THE SCREAMS: Winchester (House)
Following the death of her husband, the heiress to the Winchester Rifle fortune suddenly moved west and began constructing on a sprawling, s...
BEHIND THE SCREAMS: Urban Legend(s)
Urban legends are defined as lurid stories that are circulated as true, often with the teller claiming that it happened to a friend of a fri...
BEHIND THE SCREAMS: Poisoned Candy Myths, Facts and Candyman
Razor blades hidden in candy apples. Needles in snicker bars. Cyanide in pixy stix. Some of these things never happen on Halloween. And some...
BEHIND THE SCREAMS: The Entity & Doris Bither
In the summer of 1974, Dr. Barry Taff, a now a renowned parapsychologist, was working as a research associate in UCLA's parapsychology labor...
BEHIND THE SCREAMS: The Silence of the Lambs
Hello, Clarice! In this episode, we discuss the chilling adaptation of the best-selling novel 'The Silence of the Lambs' by Thomas Harris an...
Episode 40: Ted Bundy and Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
The heinous crimes of Ted Bundy captured a nation as he stood trial for murder in Florida. At the time, few knew his true body count, in a s...
Episode 39: Party Monster
In the early 90s, Michael Alig rose to prominence as a club promoter and founding member of the Club Kids, before being arrested for the vic...
Episode 38: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer & Henry Lee Lucas
In 1983, Henry Lee Lucas was arrested in Texas for unlawful possession of a firearm. While in custody, he confessed to hundreds of murders c...
Episode 37: The Exorcist
It's our Exorcist Halloween Special! In the Spring of 1949, a 14-year-old boy began exhibiting signs of demonic possession after the death o...
Episode 36: The Villisca Axe Murders
Late one night in June of 1912, eight people were bludgeoned to death in a house in Villisca, Iowa. Although several suspects were named, an...
Episode 35: Jack Black's Bernie & the Real Bernie Tiede
In August of 1997, the body of 81-year old Marjorie Nugent was found in a taped up freezer in her home. Police quickly arrested her close, a...
Episode 34: The Mystery of Marie Roget & Mary Cecilia Rogers
On July 25, 1841, Mary Cecilia Rogers told her fiance she was leaving to visit family. Her body was found floating in the Hudson River three...
Zombies, Deadites & More: An Interview with Author Dana Fredsti
In this interview special, we chat with author Dana Fredsti, a writer/producer/director/theatrical sword fighter (she's in Army of Darkness)...
Episode 33: Wolf Creek & Ivan Milat
In the Fall of 1992, seven bodies were found in the Belanglo State Forest, all belonging to young people who had disappeared while hitchhiki...
Episode 32: Memories of Murder & the Hwaseong Serial Killer
In the early morning hours of September 15, 1986, the body of 71-year-old Lee Wan-im was found in the rice fields hear her home, strangled t...
Episode 31: Heavenly Creatures
16-year-old Pauline Parker and her best friend, 15-year-old Juliet Hulme murdered Pauline’s mother to try to avoid being separated. The stor...
Tales from the Murder.ly Network
We are excited to announce that we are members of the just-launched Murder.ly True Crime Podcast Network! In this very special episode, we h...
Episode 30: First Year Podcast Anniversary Q&A
Happy one year anniversary of our show! It's been an amazing year and we are celebrating by answering questions that you asked us through so...
Episode 29: Bobby & Ila Fae Dent and The Sugarland Express
On May 2, 1969, a desperate bid by Bobby and Ila Fae Dent to avoid arrest would lead to one of the longest police chases in history, spannin...