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Murder Coaster

Christa Carmen and Matthew Brockmeyer

Buckle up, keep your hands in the ride and prepare for a rollercoaster deep dive into some of the world’s most bizarre and brutal true crime stories.Presented to you by horror writers Christa Carmen and Matthew Brockmeyer, Murder Coaster is a weekly true crime podcast that will thrill and perplex you, delving deep not only into the facts of the case, but the psychology behind the culprits as well.Join us every Wednesday for fascinating takes on wild cases of murder through the ages, that you will

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Episode 40: ISSEI SAGAWA Scholar, Necrophile,...

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2024/01/10

Renee Hartevelt was a beautiful 22-year-old college student studying French poetry when fellow student Issei Sagawa shot her in the back of the head, assaulted and mutilated her corpse, and ate large parts of her.Though quickly apprehended, Issei would never go to trial, in fact he would become a celebrated author, painter and porn star, exploiting his crimes and turning them into a profitable cottage industry.Today, ladies and gentlemen, we bring you the terrifying, disgusting, and truly bizarre

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Episode 39: Armin and Bernd the Cannibal Soulmates

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2024/01/03

Many lost souls find each other on the internet, bonding over common interests and shared fantasies. But never in the history of the internet have two lonely hearts ever made the type of connection that Armin Meiwes and Bernd Brandes made. Their brief love affair would be one of unbridled passion, wild and untamed fantasy fulfillment and dark savage urges, as well as murder and cannibalism. Ladies and gentlemen, brace yourselves for the chilling tale of the Rotenburg Cannibal, for today we bring you

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Episode 38: Gypsy Rose Blanchard Revisited

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2023/12/27

Greetings dear listeners. As many of you may know, Gypsy Rose Blanchard will be released from prison tomorrow, December 28, 2023, after serving eight and a half years for the murder of her mother.So, we've gone back to a previous episode and added our thoughts on the case with a special introduction. Enjoy and thank you so much for listening.The Story of Gypsy Rose BlanchardEveryone in the small community of Springfield, Missouri adored Dee Dee Blanchard and her disabled daughter Gypsy Rose. They

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Episode 37: MERCY BROWN and the Vampires of New England

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2023/12/20

New England in the 1800s was gripped with a vampire panic. Belief in the undead rising from their graves at night to feed off the living, spreading pestilence and disease, was rampant, and as families watched their children grow sickly and pale, struggling to breathe and withering away, they saw no choice but to seek out the offending creatures of the night, by digging up their corpses, hacking out their hearts and livers, burning them, and then consuming the ashes. It was seen as the only way to

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Episode 36: Lizzie Borden

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2023/12/13

Lizzie Borden. The name has been etched into the American consciousness through countless books, movies, even a heavy metal band and a haunting and disturbing children’s rhyme which you can hear on playgrounds to this day. She was the first, modern American Psycho, a woman of class and privilege who caved her parent’s heads in with an axe. Theories over her innocence or guilt, as well as the vicious and brutal murders themselves, abound, titillating tales of lesbian affairs, incestual sex, and

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Episode 35: BATHSHEBA and the Truth Behind the...

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2023/12/06

Learn the disturbing truth behind the Conjuring Haunting.There’s a legend of a murderous and devil-worshipping witch that once dwelled in Rhode Island in the early eighteen hundreds by the name of Bathsheba who sacrificed babies to Satan and whose ghost is said to haunt the land.The legend has become so pervasive that the Burrillville cemetery, where her grave is located, has become a tourist destination for the occult obsessed, some of whom have vandalized the grave and defaced the gravestone.And

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BONUS: An Interview with Author Christa Carmen

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2023/12/01

Happy release day to THE DAUGHTERS OF BLOCK ISLAND and congratulations to cohost Christa Carmen!!Christa tells us all about her love of Gothic horror and her new book THE DAUGHTERS OF BLOCK ISLAND.It is a book filled with mystery, murder, intrigue, ghosts, red herrings, twists and turns, an underground labyrinth of dungeons and tunnels, and a haunted mansion, everything a Murder Coaster listener would want in a spooky and Gothic tale of crime and deception. It’s already being lavished with praise

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Episode 34: SID AND NANCY Part 2 Love Kills

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2023/11/29

Welcome back to our second and final episode on Sid and Nancy, the Romeo and Juliette of punk rock. Today we will explore the tumultuous relationship of these two star-crossed lovers, the implosion of the Sex Pistols, and then get into the mysteries surrounding this infamous case. Who killed Nancy Spungen? And was the death of Sid Vicious an overdose or suicide? Ladies and Gentlemen, we present to you, Sid and Nancy, part two: Love Kills.And be sure to check out I’LL BE GLAD WHEN YOU’RE DEAD‘s

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Episode 33: SID AND NANCY Part One Star-Crossed Lovers

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2023/11/22

Sid and Nancy. They were the Romeo and Juliette of punk rock, star-crossed lovers, each despised and hated by the other's friends and family, bound together by fate and passion into a forlorn and doomed romance that would see them both dead in the prime of their youth.Their relationship is the stuff of legend, of films, books, songs, and poems, a tumultuous and violent affair riddled with drugs and fighting, but an affair of deep love and unbridled passion nonetheless that would end in murder and a

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Episode 32: GATOR and the Horrific Death of Jessica...

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2023/11/15

The story of professional skateboarder Gator is a distinctly American tale about a rocket to success and a tumble to disgrace. It is also a story about the history skateboarding and Southern California culture, a story of celebrity and fame, of bizarre religious mania, sexual sadism and murder.Mark Rogowski was just a child when his mother brought him from Brooklyn to San Diego, and beach culture, which involved surfboards and expensive clothing, seemed unobtainable to him, something out of his

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BONUS: STARKWEATHER An Interview with Award-Winning...

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2023/11/13

New York Times bestselling, Edgar Award winning author Harry N MacLean joins us to discuss his new true crime book STARKWEATHER: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree That Changed America.In late 1957 and early 1958 nineteen-year-old Charles Starkweather went on a spree of crime and murder through the American heartland, much of it accompanied by his fourteen-year-old girl friend Caril Ann Fugate, that would leave eleven dead, including Caril’s own parents and toddler sister.The crimes sent shock

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Episode 31: FANG and the tragic death of Dixie Lee...

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2023/11/08

PUNK ROCK. It was a battle cry for alienated and disaffected youth around the world. Outsider kids who wanted to go wild in a cruel world where they saw no future. The rejected, the misfits, banding together and causing chaos. And in many ways, no band reflected the anarchistic spirit of the hardcore punk movement better than Fang, from Berkley California. Fang would become infamous for their hedonism and drug-fueled debauchery while writing legendary that songs would go on to be covered by Nirvana,

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Episode 30: The Black Dahlia

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2023/11/01

The Black Dahlia. Just the name itself evokes mystery and intrigue, conjuring images of a raven-haired and gothic beauty tragically slain at the zenith of her youth, of a gritty 1940s Los Angeles straight from a hard-boiled True Detective magazine, revealing the dark underbelly of old-school Hollywood.Indeed, the Black Dahlia murder is one of the most enduring murder mysteries in the history of true crime, and one of the most gruesome as well. The savage killing of beautiful and enigmatic Elizabeth

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HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: Wendigo Crimes, Trials and Murders

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2023/10/31

The Wendigo. Today we will examine the origins of the mythological beast, and explore three cases of supposed Wendigo possession that ended in madness, murder and cannibalism. Swift Runner was a Cree Native American in Saskatchewan who is said to have succumbed to the Wendigo spirit and butchered and ate his entire family during the harsh winter of 1878. He would become the first person legally executed in the Canadian Northwest Territories. The Suker were the last indigenous peoples in North

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Episode 29: True Crime Werewolf Madness

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2023/10/25

What does Hitler, Russia’s most prolific serial killer, and a Florida frat-boy cannibal have in common? They’re all werewolves!!! Hitler was obsessed with wolves and werewolves. The name Adolf literally means “noble wolf” and Hitler often called himself Father Wolf. He also deployed not one, but two Werewolf Battalions during the nightmare of World War II. Mikhail Viktorovich Popkov is Russia’s most prolific serial killer. He was also a policeman, who used his badge to lure unsuspecting women into

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BONUS: Horror Writers on Werewolves

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2023/10/23

Horror writers on werewolves! From huge, mainstream, bestselling authors, to underground indie writers of extreme horror and splatter punk, we have curated an amazing collection of horror authors to give us their take on what the werewolf means to them. The authors featured on today's episode are:Richard Chizmar, New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Boogeyman and Gwendy’s Button Box, winner of two World Fantasy awards, four International Horror Guild Awards, and the Horror Writers

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Episode 28: Albert Fish the Werewolf of Wysteria

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2023/10/18

Albert Fish is one of the most terrifying and notorious figures in the history of true crime. A cannibal and child killer, he was both a sadist and a masochist whose sexual perversions knew no bounds.Albert Fish was the original Boogeyman. For decades he roamed the country, a shadowy figure, abducting children and eating them. Not unlike the Slenderman of internet lore, he would appear and then mysteriously be gone, taking a child with him. Only Albert Fish was very, very real. When witnesses were

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Episode 27: Fritz Haarmann The Wolf Man of Hanover

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2023/10/11

World War I caused astounding economic and social ramifications in Germany. Severe reparations led to an extreme economic crisis marked by hyperinflation, unemployment, and widespread poverty. The social fabric of Germany was torn apart, allowing a vast criminal underground to flourish. And one of these criminals was a werewolf, prowling the city of Hanover at night, ripping the throats out of his innocent victims with his bare teeth. Today, ladies and gentlemen, we present to you the tale of Fritz

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BONUS: The History of the Werewolf Film

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2023/10/06

Mark and Jim from the Horror Movies and Shit podcast join us today as we cover the long history of the werewolf in cinema!Unlike vampires, which entered the realm of cinema with an established mythology, the modern werewolf is a creature almost entirely created by Hollywood. Today we’ll explore how film shaped and influenced our notions of lycanthropy.Along the way, we’ll let you know which werewolf movies are the best, which are the worst, which ones you have to see and which one you can skip. So

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Episode 26: Werewolf Crimes and Trials

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2023/10/04

In humanity's oldest surviving work of literature, The Epic of Gilgamesh, the goddess of sex and violence transforms her lover into a wolf. This ancient narrative suggests that the concept of the werewolf has been intertwined with human culture since time immemorial.Join us on a journey into the historical roots of the werewolf, which culminated in the infamous werewolf trials and executions during the Middle Ages. In France alone, an astonishing 30,000 individuals faced accusations of being

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