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
DEAR ABBY: I have a longtime friend, “Laurie,” who is single. Most of the relationships she gets into are with men who are in relationships already. She often suggests that my husband and I and she get together to hang out, but I discourage it because I don’t trust her completely. (I do trust my … Read more
Ian Brennan is getting candid on the third season of the crime drama anthology series “Monster.” The new season, titled “Monster: The Ed Gein Story,” hits Netflix on Oct. 3 and features Charlie Hunnam as the twisted killer. “I struggle to call him a serial killer,” he exclusively told The Post at the streaming platform’s … Read more
New York Post may be compensated and/or receive an affiliate commission if you click or buy through our links. Featured pricing is subject to change. It’s been over five years since HBO’s four-part documentary series “The Case Against Adnan Syed” premiered, and tonight, Sept. 18, a follow-up fifth episode will be released. Director Amy J. … 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
This new workout is a scream. Killer Fitness, located in Burbank, California, offers health nuts and horror fans the chance to run for their lives — it’s not exercise, it’s “Slashercise.” Strength is built and endurance is tested during hour-long classes where participants jump, kick, and punch against a giant screen that features looped footage of … 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
This guy put a ring on it — five times. Former “serial cheater” Jame Barrett says he finally found relationship bliss — by giving up monogamy and diving headfirst into a full-blown polyamorous household, complete with five wives and a whopping 11 children. Barrett, 30, says that juggling multiple romantic partners — with everyone in … 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
“Dexter: Original Sin” is, as the title says, the origin story of blood splatter expert and serial killer Dexter Morgan. Clyde Phillips, the showrunner on the first series, is again directing this 10-part series. This iteration stars Irish actor Patrick Gibson as a young Dexter, a college student and budding killer mentored by his dad … 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
A prolific shoplifter has been banned from wearing wigs — after numerous attempts to disguise herself. Hannah Roberts, 33, used a series of hair pieces to try and beat a ban on entering any shops. She was a handed a Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO) by Gloucester magistrates sitting at Cheltenham Magistrates’ Court earlier this month. … 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
One of Dave Grohl’s exes believes he has even more confessions to make. “Sliders” actress Kari Wuhrer, 57, who dated Grohl in the late ’90s, had some not-so-nice things to say about the Foo Fighters frontman, 55, after discovering he had cheated on his wife, Jordyn Blum, and produced a love child with another woman. … Read more
Edna Cowell Martin was at work processing king crab legs in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, in late 1975 when she got a long-distance phone call from her brother. John told Edna the good news that an arrest in Utah led authorities to believe they’d caught the psycho who’d been kidnapping and killing female college students in … Read more
The family of one of Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims slammed “sick” Ariana Grande for once saying that the prolific killer was her dream dinner guest. Appearing on the “Podcrushed” podcast earlier this month, the “We Can’t Be Friends” hitmaker, 31, recalled telling a group of kids during a Q&A that she was interested in sitting down … Read more
A UK medical writer who doesn’t think she wants to have children has donated 88 eggs to help four couples start families. Alex Webster, 31, hatched a plan after discovering in 2016 that her friend needed donor eggs to conceive. Feeling inspired and wanting to help other women in the same situation, she contacted the … Read more