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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 25: The Cabin 28 Massacre

Murder Coaster ·

2023/09/27

On April 11, 1981, a chilling and unsolved multiple murder unfolded in Cabin 28 in the little town of Keddie, California, nestled in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.Three victims were found: Sue Sharp, her son John Sharp, and John’s best friend Dana Wingate. They were brutally slain, having been bound, beaten with a hammer and stabbed.Sheila Sharp, Sue's 12-year-old daughter, was missing. Three years later a skull would be found nearly a hundred miles away, and after a mysterious 911

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BONUS: Richard Chizmar talks about his new book...

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2023/09/22

Richard Chizmar joins the show to discuss his new book Becoming the Boogeyman a blending of true crime and horror fiction..Richard is not only a New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Amazon and Publishers weekly bestselling author, screenwriter and extremely prolific short story writer, he is also the founder of Cemetery Dance Magazine and the Cemetery Dance book imprint, and has won two World Fantasy awards, four International Horror Guild Awards, and the Horror Writers

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Episode 24: The Wineville Chicken Coop Murders

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2023/09/20

The Wineville Chicken Coop murders stand as some of the most horrifying and unsettling chapters in the annals of true crime, marked by a plot twist so bizarre it defies belief.Today, we delve into these gruesome crimes through a four-act narrative we've titled "A Tale of Two Mothers."Sarah Louise Northcott's love for her son, Gordon, knew no bounds. Gordon was a charismatic, intelligent, and gifted young man, a classically trained concert pianist, whom she indulged with luxury cars, tailored suits,

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Episode 23: Leslie Van Houten Part 2

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2023/09/13

The Leslie Van Houten Story Part 2: Marauders in the desert, the way of the coyote, arrest, trial, rehabilitation and release. Leslie has gone from flower-power, love-child hippie to marauding, violent outlaw running wild in the desert of Death Valley under the command of the Infinite Soul Charlie Manson. Then it all comes crashing down. The Family is busted and crazy Sexy Sadie is telling anyone who will listen about their bizarre beliefs, lifestyle, and crimes, including the murder of Sharon Tate

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Episode 22: Leslie Van Houten Part 1

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2023/09/06

From Homecoming Queen to Acid Orgies: The Leslie Van Houten Story Part 1After 53 years in prison, former Manson Family member Leslie Van Houten is now a free woman. This is her story.Leslie sang in the choir as a little girl and lived to dance, sliding across the wooden floors of the Harmony Ballroom in Anaheim to the surf rock sounds of Dick Dale.As a teenager she heard the hippie call to turn on, tune in, and drop out, so she did, wandering up to Haight Ashbury in San Fran where she met the

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Episode 21: The Mall Passer Mike DeBardeleben

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2023/08/30

The craziest suspected serial killer you probably never heard of!In 1982 Treasury Department agents were hot on the trail of a counterfeiter traveling across the country passing off fake twenties at shopping malls, earning him the monicker “The Mall Passer.”Authorities would eventually apprehend Mike DeBardeleben, and the horrors they would uncover when they searched his many storage compartments was like something straight out of a horror movie.Far from just a counterfeiter, DeBardeleben was a

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Episode 20: The Kentucky Cannibal Levi Boone Helm

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2023/08/23

Get ready for a rootin-tootin, true-crime good time, as we get into the life of notorious Wild West outlaw, gunslinger, and old-time serial killer Levi Boone Helm: The Kentucky Cannibal. The American Frontier of the 1800s was a ruthless, brutal and lawless place where might made right and violence reigned, and no one epitomized this savagery better than Boone Helms. Boone Helms’s reign of terror and bloodshed is the stuff of Wild West legend. In his murderous journeys across the American

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Episode 19: Amusement Park Murder and Terror

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2023/08/16

Every abandoned place is haunted, if not by the ghosts of the dead, then by the relics of the past. And no place appears more eerie and forlorn than the abandoned amusement park.Today we will be covering two abandoned and haunted amusement parks.First there's the Rocky Point Amusement Park in Rhode Island.Most locals scoff at the supposed Gypsy curse that's said to be upon Rocky Point Amusement Park, but there can be no denying the strange events that have happened there, including suicide and

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Episode 18: The Dooms Day Cult of Lori Vallow Daybell

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2023/08/09

What were the real beliefs of Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell? We get nitty-gritty and trace it back to an 1860 Mormon offshoot group called The Church of the Firstborn, a dooms-day cult that believed in reincarnation and started a war. We also take a deep dive into the entire twisted tale of Lori Vallow, detailing the lives of both Lori and Chad, how they met and came to hold the bizarre beliefs that led to multiple murders, including the ritualist killing of Lori’s own daughter and adopted son. We

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Episode 17: Freeway Killers Pt 3: Randy Kraft

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2023/08/02

Randy Kraft was one of the most prolific serial killers in American history, and also one of the most brutal, cruel and sadistic. It is believed he killed at least 67 young men and boys from 1971 to 1983, marking each victim down in code on a score card.Join us for the third and final installment in our Freeway Killers series, where we have taken deep dives into the methodologies, histories and psychologies of Patrick Kearney, William Bonin and Randy Kraft, three men who became known as the Freeway

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Episode 16: Freeway Killer Pt 2: William George Bonin

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2023/07/26

William “Billy” Bonin would be described by prosecutors as, “the most arch evil person who has ever existed.”A decorated Vietnam War hero, he was also a sexually sadistic serial killer who murdered over 21 young men and boys in a death van with an accomplice dressed as Darth Vader who performed magic tricks to subdue their victims. He would become the first person put to death by lethal injection in the state of California.Join us for part two of our Freeway Killer series, where we compare and

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Episode 15: Freeway Killers Pt 1: Patrick Wayne Kearney

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2023/07/19

There were upward of twenty serial killers at work in Southern California in the late seventies and early eighties, earning Los Angeles the title “Serial Killer Capital of the World.”Three of these brutal killers were targeting young men and boys, leaving their bodies strewn over roadways, each of them becoming known as the Freeway Killer.Over the next three episodes we will take deep looks at each of the Freeway Killers, comparing and contrasting their methodologies, backgrounds and psychological

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Episode 14: Gypsy Rose Blanchard

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2023/07/12

Everyone in the small community of Springfield, Missouri adored Dee Dee Blanchard and her disabled daughter Gypsy Rose. They were survivors of hurricane Katrina and had been through so much. Gypsy was quadriplegic, had been in a wheelchair most her short life, and suffered from a host of ailments, including leukemia, epilepsy, and muscular dystrophy, she was also severely mentally handicapped, but she braved all her struggles stoically, with a smile on her face.Then in June 2015, after a series of

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Episode 13 Elizabeth Bathory: Vampiric Blood Countess...

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2023/07/05

The legend of Countess Elizabeth Bathory has inspired countless horror movies and heavy metal bands. This enigmatic woman has come to be seen by modern culture as a vampiric monster obsessed with youth and beauty who bathed in the blood of virgin servant girls as a means of staying young. Yet there is no historical record of this and these bizarre accusations came a hundred years after her death. History does show us a cruel and sadistic widow who ruled her empire with an iron fist and delighted

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Season Finale Bonus: The Truth Behind the Most...

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2023/06/21

As a season finale bonus we bring you the truth behind the Ruth Price 911 call!Often cited as the most terrifying 911 call of all time, its origin and authenticity have been debated for decades. Is it real? Is it fake? We bring you the recently uncovered answer!Stay tuned afterwards for exciting information about Season 2!!Website: www.murdercoasterpodcast.comFacebook: Murder CoasterInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/murdercoasterpodcast/Twitter: https://twitter.com/MurderCoaster Creepy

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EPISODE 12: The 1984 San Ysidro McDonald's Massacre

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2023/06/14

The deadliest mass shooting in the history of California took place on July 18, 1984 in a McDonald's in San Ysidro.. In this episode we take you on a meticulously researched journey back to that fateful day, piecing together the events leading up to the massacre, the chilling details of the attack itself, and the aftermath that forever changed the lives of the survivors and the community. The perpetrator, James Huberty, entered the restaurant armed with multiple firearms, including a

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Episode 11: Luka Magnotta Part 2: The Internet...

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2023/06/07

All the grisly details of the crimes that shook the internet to the core, and how the internet struck back! Join us for part two of our true crime deep dive into the bizarre life and crimes of murderer Luka Manotta, and see how even after being capture and put in prison, he continues his bizarre mirror maze of reality, morphing like a chameleon and distorting reality to fit whatever role he chooses. And see how the apple doesn't fall far from the tree with the antics of his mother. Website:

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Episode 10: Luka Magnotta Part 1, The Post-Modern...

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2023/05/31

Prepare to enter the dark and perplexing mirror maze of Luka Magnotta with the first of our two episode deep dive. There is no greater modern freak show than the internet, and this is the realm where Luka Magnotta worked, using thousands of fake accounts to promote himself as a model, gay porn star, murderer and necrophile. Magnotta's crimes and the subsequent media frenzy captured the attention of the world. We examine the cultural impact of the case, exploring how the digital age and the

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Episode 9: Snuff Film Killers

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2023/05/24

The snuff film. What is it, and is it real or just an urban legend? And what kind of person would get sexual gratification from watching one?We'll explore these questions, as well as take a deep dive into two men whose obsession with snuff films led them to trying to make their own. First there's Jamie Reynolds from Shropshire, UK, whose obsession with violent pornography and snuff films led him to murder his 17-year-old neighbor Georgia Williams, filming the entire thing. Then we get into

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Episode 8: The Vampire King of Fresno and the Wesson...

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2023/05/17

Prepare yourselves for a brutal descent into madness and murder as we explore the life of Marcus Wesson, a man who attempted to create a pure vampire race by impregnating his own daughters and nieces, culminating in a family annihilation that left nine dead and experienced police officers shaken to the core and weeping like babies.Today we cover . . . the Vampire King of Fresno and the Wesson Family Massacre. Website: www.murdercoasterpodcast.comFacebook: Murder CoasterInstagram:

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