True Crime & Weirdness
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Chris Watts’ Mom Still Thinks He’s Innocent
Cindy Watts still describes her son Chris as a good person and rejects his admission that he murdered his daughters. He’s serving life without…
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Christa Pike Survived Her Lethal Injection in Tennessee, and Her Attorney Shared the First Thing She Said
Christa Pike survived the lethal-injection drugs meant to kill her, then woke up days later and asked the people around her, “Where am I…
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One of the Manson Family Killers May Soon Be Free in California
Patricia Krenwinkel, 78, has received a 3rd parole recommendation after spending about 56 years in prison for the Manson family’s Tate-LaBianca murders. California Gov.…
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The True Stories That Inspired Wolf Creek (2005) Are Just as Scary as the Movie Itself
Wolf Creek’s killer, Mick Taylor, grew out of 2 real Australian crime stories: Ivan Milat’s murders of backpackers and the disappearance of British tourist…
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Georgia Tann Stole Thousands of Children and Sold Them Under New Names. One of Them Grew Up to Be Ric Flair
Flair was among thousands of children moved through the Memphis branch of the Tennessee Children’s Home Society under Beulah George “Georgia” Tann. From about…
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On 9/11, Vince Gilligan Recognized a Chilling Similarity to the Plane Attack He’d Written for ‘The Lone Gunmen’ Months Earlier
Watching CNN’s coverage of the September 11, 2001, attacks, Vince Gilligan thought “Wait a minute. We wrote this.” Fox had aired his pilot on…
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Former Weezer Bassist Mikey Welsh Tweeted About a Dream of Dying in Chicago. He Died There 12 Days Later
On September 26, 2011, former Weezer bassist Mikey Welsh posted about a dream in which he died in Chicago: “dreamt i died in chicago…
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They Based a Horror Movie on Her Life and Never Even Talked to Her
In 1974, a woman named Doris Bither walked up to two UCLA parapsychologists in a bookstore and told them she was being beaten and…
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They Wanted a Wedding Location That Suited Them as a Couple, So They Hosted a Romantic Wedding at the Lizzie Borden House
Most couples picture a garden, a ballroom, or a beach for their big day. Tori and David Avery pictured a crime scene. For two…
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While the Lindsay Clancy Trial Gripped the Country, at Least 7 Men Killed Members of Their Own Families and Almost No One Learned Their Names
While the nation followed every development in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial, a very different set of cases played out almost entirely in silence. From…
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What Became of Lizzie Borden After Her Murder Trial?
Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story ends by offering a dramatized answer to who killed Andrew and Abby Borden. The historical record leaves that question…
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The Exorcist Was Based on a Real 1949 Exorcism Performed on a 14-Year-Old Maryland Boy
The 1973 film that made audiences afraid to sleep with the lights off didn’t spring entirely from William Peter Blatty’s imagination. Hollywood changed the…
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9 Experienced Hikers, Bones Broken Like a Car Crash, and Nobody Else’s Footprints in the Snow
In the winter of 1959, nine experienced hikers set out on one of the Soviet Union’s hardest winter routes. They were skilled, well-prepared, and…
