Rickon isn’t clowning around. Michael Chernus, best known for playing the goofy Rickon on “Severance,” takes a darker turn in the serial killer show, “Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy.” Premiering Oct. 16 on Peacock, the show dramatizes the serial killer’s reign of terror and highlights his victim’s stories. Gabriel Luna (“The Last of Us”) … Read more
Sex Ed is in session for true crime-obsessed chicks. Hot and homicidal. That’s the dating criteria for 20-somethings with hybristophilia, a sexual attraction to criminals — like serial killer and body snatcher, Ed Gein. It’s an outré affinity toward bad boys that’s being fueled by social media, according to blood-curdling new data. Gein, infamously nicknamed “The Butcher of … Read more
The Big Apple’s most notorious serial killer is getting a new close-up. In the Netflix docuseries, “Conversations With a Killer: The Son of Sam Tapes” (now streaming), director/ producer Joe Berlinger explores David Berkowitz and his reign of terror on 1970s New York City – and even includes the killer’s claim that he wasn’t the … Read more
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. The story of Dexter the serial killer continues in “Dexter: Resurrection,” and this time, it’s a multi-generational saga. “Dexter: Resurrection,” which is the fourth show in the “Dexter” franchise, premiered on Friday, July 11 on Paramount+ and Sunday, July 13 at 8 p.m. on Showtime. The story centers … Read more
The dark passenger is back. Michael C. Hall returns as serial killer Dexter in “Dexter: Resurrection” — and yes, he knows “it’s a trip.” “We hoped we were onto something. We hoped we’d hit the little bullseye that we were trying to hit,” Hall, 54, exclusively told The Post about the original “Dexter,” which first premiered … Read more
Expecting parents are taking a stab at it — quite literally. Villains, crooks and knife-wielding nuts. Although they’re bad guys of society, their first names are becoming bloody good options for moms and dads-to-be, per a nightmarish new report. Baby names inspired by true crime icons, such as accused con artist Anna Delvey and mass murderer Ted Bundy, … Read more
He went from being a real cop to playing one on TV. “Dexter” star David Zayas, who returns to co-star in the sequel series “Dexter: Resurrection,” was in the NYPD before pivoting to acting. “Being a police officer really helped me in the characterizations of characters that I’ve played. I left to focus on acting, … Read more
In 1996, Jack Spillman (a k a the Werewolf Butcher) confessed to murdering three people, two of them children and one just 9 years old. His brutality was staggering, not just raping his victims but dismembering them, drinking their blood and removing their sexual organs. Bob Keppel — the chief criminal investigator for the attorney general of … Read more
A homegrown killer. The Netflix docuseries “Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer” covers the case of the Gilgo Beach killings – a series of murders spanning from 1993 until 2011. They went unsolved for over a decade until the suspect, Manhattan architect and Massapequa Park, LI, resident Rex Heuermann, 61, was arrested in 2023 … Read more
Put on a happy face. Dennis Quaid, best known for playing friendly patriarch roles in movies like “The Parent Trap,” takes a darker turn as a serial killer dad in “Happy Face,” premiering March 20 on Paramount+. “Serial killers are very easy to play,” Quaid 70, exclusively told The Post, while promoting his “True To … Read more
“Who lives next door to you?” asks psychologist and true crime expert Emma Kenny in “The Serial Killer Next Door: Chilling True Stories of the Killers Hidden Among Us” (Mobius). “Perhaps a friendly postman or a businessman in a sharp suit? These are the faces you recognize, individuals as ‘ordinary’ as you or me. But it’s … Read more
There’s a troubling pattern over the years of murderers and serial killers appearing on television, namely game shows. One example is Rodney Alcala, who was on the hit game show “The Dating Game” in 1978, amid his murder spree. His story was made into the new Netflix movie “Woman of the Hour,” directed by and … Read more
He’s the ultimate psycho killer. Serial killer Ed Gein may not be a household name like Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer, but he looms large in pop culture, inspiring a trio of iconic horror movie killers: Norman Bates in “Psycho,” Buffalo Bill in “The Silence of The Lambs,” and Leatherface in “Texas Chainsaw Massacre.” Even … Read more
Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut, “Woman of the Hour,” tells the chilling and unbelievable story of serial killer Rodney Alcala, who appeared on the hit game show “The Dating Game” in 1978, amidst his murder spree. Source link #Fact #Fiction #Woman #Hour #true #story #Dating #Game #serial #killer
It’s the season of fear, folks. The word horror is derived directly from the ancient Latin to “tremble or shudder.” What makes us seek this shudder in slasher movies, ghost stories, and zombie flicks? This excellent article from “Harvard Business Review” argues that humans love horror movies because they offer two-fold stimulation, simultaneously triggering anxiety … Read more
They don’t have killer instincts. For some reason, the serial killer show “Dexter” from the early 2000s has gotten an expanded universe that’s nearly akin to Marvel. During San Diego Comic-Con over the weekend, Showtime announced that “Dexter” star Michael C. Hall, 53, will join the cast of “Dexter: Original Sin.” And that’s not all, … Read more
Move over, Ted Bundy — there’s a new-old serial hottie in town. Recently released AI-generated renderings of Jack the Ripper reveal the infamous 19th-century prostitute killer to be a dashing gentleman with a darkly alluring, wild-eyed energy. The dangerously dreamy drawings come courtesy of Jeff Leahy, a long-time Ripper enthusiast from Carmarthen, Wales, who produced a … Read more
Spooky season is upon us. With the weather getting cooler, the sun going down sooner and Halloween slowly creeping up on us, it is time to once again break out the weighted blanket and a true crime documentary. While streaming giants such as Netflix, Hulu and Max offer a plethora of options, it’s not always … Read more
Getting a phone call from a serial killer is the kind of thing most people would find unsettling. For Jana Monroe, it was just another day at work. It was the early 1990s and Monroe, who had been an FBI agent for just over five years — and was the only woman in the FBI’s … Read more
It was supposed to be just another silly episode of “The Dating Game.” At a taping of the popular TV show in 1978, host Jim Lange introduced three male suitors who were there to be cutely questioned by a single woman, Cheryl Bradshaw, sitting on the other side of a partition. She was looking for … Read more