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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 122: Ed and Lorraine Warren Part One

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2025/10/29

Happy Halloween! Today we begin a journey into the controversial life and times of the ultimate ghost hunting duo: Ed and Lorraine Warren.Were they valiant paranormal investigators and Christian superheroes battling demons and saving the world from Satan himself? Or were they frauds, nothing more than carnival-sideshow hucksters selling hoaxes for fame and profit? Or even worse . . . sexual predators? MURDER COASTER PODCAST Hosted by Christa Carmen and Matthew

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BONUS: HOW TO FAKE A HAUNTING An Interview with...

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2025/10/22

Welcome back to Ghost October Ladies and gentlemen!Today Cohost Christa Carmen, the Bram Stoker-award-winning, Shirly Jackson-award-nominated author of The Daughters of Block Island, Beneath the Poet’s House, and Something Borrowed, Something Blood Soaked, tells us about her newest novel How to Fake a Haunting. Christa’s Website: Christa Carmen Buy HOW TO FAKE A HAUNTING on Amazon: Amazon.com: How to Fake a Haunting: 9781662530746: Carmen, Christa: Books MURDER COASTER PODCAST Hosted by Christa

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Episode 121: George and Kathy Lutz and the Amityville...

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2025/10/15

Welcome back to Ghost October and the Amityville Horror House! Last week we brought you the story of Ronald "Butch" DeFeo who murdered his entire family in cold blood, and today we bring you the story of the Lutz Family who moved into the notorious house afterwards, and whose chilling paranormal experiences were the basis of the book and movie The Amityville Horror.Was it true? Was it a hoax? Or was it all a bizarre quaalude induced hallucination? Should the real title be the Amityville Quaalude

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BONUS: America's Most Gothic an Interview with Leanna...

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2025/10/14

We are thrilled to have Leanna Renee Hieber and Andrea Janes on the show today to discuss their newest book America’s Most Gothic: Haunted History Stranger than Fiction!! Leanna and Andrea are the team that authored the Bram Stoker Award nominated book Haunted History of Invisible Women. With their new book America’s Most Gothic they weave together a variety true stories featuring castles, ghosts, hidden passages, damsels in distress, deceptive villains, and family curses to give us a kaleidoscope

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Episode 120: Ronald "Butch" DeFeo and the Amityville...

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2025/10/08

The story of Butch DeFeo and the Amityville Horror House Massacre is like a Sopranos Halloween Special.The mystery of how six people could be shot, one after the other, with an incredibly loud, high-powered hunting rifle, none of them waking up and just lying in their beds peacefully sleeping, the neighbors not hearing a thing, endures to this day. Join us as we go over all the many theories of the murders which would eventually lead to one of the most famous haunted house tales in the history of

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Episode 119: Joseph Kallinger the Shoemaker Part Two

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2025/10/01

Welcome back to Part Two of the Shoemaker Joseph Kallinger. And be forewarned, today’s episode is one of the most brutal and disturbing we have ever done. All trigger warnings in effect, as we delve back into the bizarre and horrible, life and crimes, of Joseph Kallinger.MURDER COASTER PODCAST Hosted by Christa Carmen and Matthew Brockmeyer Website: www.murdercoasterpodcast.com Facebook: Murder Coaster Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/murdercoasterpodcast/ Creepy Amusement Park theme by

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Episode 118: Joseph Kallinger the Shoemaker

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2025/09/24

The story of Joseph Kallinger, the shoemaker, is one of the most horrifying and bizarre tales in the history of true crime, shocking beyond belief.Aided by his twelve-year-old son, Joseph Kallinger, suffering from bizarre hallucinations, went on a brutal spree of sexual mutilation, rape and murder, on a mission from God, to kill every person on the face of the earth. MURDER COASTER PODCAST Hosted by Christa Carmen and Matthew Brockmeyer Website: www.murdercoasterpodcast.com Facebook: Murder

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Episode 117: Frank the Shank and the Punk Rock Gangs...

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2025/09/17

Punk-rock gangbanger Frank the Shank was like something right out of A Clockwork Orange, a sociopathic teenager searching the night for ultraviolence and murder, reigning in a bizarre world of punk gangs with names like something out of the Warriors: Pig Children Tribe, Los Angeles Death Squad, Circle One Family, Suicidal Psychos, Fight For Freedom and LMP.Today we take a dive into the punk rock gangs of 1980s Los Angeles and the myth and legend of the murdering psychopath Frank the Shank. MURDER

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Episode 116: Amanda Logue Porn Star and Killer

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2025/09/10

In the early morning hours of May 15, 2010, porn-star Amanda Logue, aka Sunny Dae, and her British-spy boyfriend, gay-for-pay porn-star Jason Andrews, brutally murdered biker and tattoo studio owner Dennis Abrahmson, or Scooter, as he was known, stealing cocaine, oxycontin and $6,000.But this is just the tip of the iceberg in one of the craziest tales of sex, drugs and murder you have ever heard. MURDER COASTER PODCAST Hosted by Christa Carmen and Matthew

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Episode 115: David Alan Gore and Tony Ciaglia the...

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2025/09/03

Welcome back to the story of serial killer David Alan Gore. While today’s episode is a sequel, telling the story of David’s time on death row, it is much more than that, it’s an exploration of severe brain injuries and the struggle of those afflicted with them, and the story of how one young man’s fascination and obsession with true crime brought him to disturbing realms, but also, ultimately heroic ones, for it is also the story of Tony Ciaglia, the Serial Killer whisperer. Buy THE SERIAL KILLER

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Episode 114: The Killing Cousins David Alan Gore and...

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2025/08/27

Prepare yourself for darkness, as we take a disturbing ride into the horrible and unbelievably gruesome story of the Killing Cousins: David Allan Gore and Fred Waterfield, a pair of serial killers who terrorized the swamps, citrus groves and highways of Vero Beach and Orlando, Florida.MURDER COASTER PODCAST Hosted by Christa Carmen and Matthew Brockmeyer Website: www.murdercoasterpodcast.com Facebook: Murder Coaster Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/murdercoasterpodcast/ Creepy Amusement

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Episode 113: Karla Faye Tucker

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2025/08/20

Axe murderer Karla Faye Tucker, who bragged of having an orgasm each time she sunk the blade into her victims, was the first woman executed in Texas in over a hundred and thirty years.While on death row she made a dramatic conversion to Christianity, causing her pending execution to become a lightning rod of debate on the death penalty, appearing on 60 Minutes and Larry King Live, and drawing in support from Newt Gingrich, Jimmy Swaggart and Pope John Paul II, all trying to convince then Texas

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Episode 112: Mia Zapata and the Snivelling Little Rat...

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2025/08/13

Today we present to you a murder mystery solved after a decade by modern technology, but oh so much more, it’s a story of punk rock anarchists, the birth of the Seattle Grunge movement, Riot Grrrls, squatters, freaks and revolutionaries.It is also a terribly tragic tale of an amazing talent cut down before her prime, but it is also a story of hope, music and love. It is the story of Mia Zapata and the Sniveling Little Rat Faced Gits! MURDER COASTER PODCAST Hosted by Christa Carmen and Matthew

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Episode 111: Shelly Knotek and the Raymond,...

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2025/07/30

Ladies and gentlemen, we present to you, one of the wildest and strangest tales of gaslighting, manipulation, abuse, torture and murder in modern history.A tale too crazy to be believed, so weird police refused to even investigate it for years, allowing the insanity to continue undaunted, though they were contacted many, many times. The tale of a mother so cruel and unfeeling as to be a literal monster, a psychopathic and murderous redheaded beast cunning enough to fool nearly everyone and appear

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Sideshow Act: MINE

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2025/07/23

Due to technical difficulties we have to rerecord the episode scheduled for today, but we wanted to give you some content, so Matthew will read his short story “Mine” from his collection UNDER ROTTING SKY.Enjoy! See you next week. Matthew’s website: www.matthewvbrockmeyer.com Buy UNDER ROTTING SKY: Under Rotting Sky: Stories: Matthew V. Brockmeyer: 9781733778336: Amazon.com: Books MURDER COASTER PODCAST Hosted by Christa Carmen and Matthew

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Episode 110: Ronald Gene Simmons and the Mockingbird...

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2025/07/16

Ladies and gentlemen, we must warn you, the story you are about to hear is one of the most disgusting and horrible in the history of true crime, a tale so foul and loathsome that it is often shunned and is little known, despite the fact that sixteen innocent people lost their lives.It is a story of savage manipulation and abuse, incest, family annihilation and spree killing, including one of the most horrifying acts of domestic violence ever recorded in American history. Please be prepared, and

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Episode 109: Randall Woodfield the I-5 Killer

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2025/07/09

Randall Woodfield was many things to many people: a star athlete and high school jock who was drafted into the NFL and played for the Green Bay Packers, a devout Christian involved in prayer groups and fellowships, an all-American son and brother, a charming and good-looking guy who sought to model in Play Girl Magazine.He was also a sexual sadist, a thief, a rapist, a necrophiliac and psychopathic serial killer. Despite these many contrasting personas, he is now known to history under one name:

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Episode 108: Claude Dallas Modern American Outlaw

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2025/07/02

Claude Lafayette Dallas is considered by many a living embodiment of the American West.Even his name rings of a wild west novel, a name teeming with outlaw bravado, conjuring images of a lone cowboy wandering the desert, surviving off his wits and the fat of the land. But this is no fictional cowboy, Claude Dallas is the real deal, a buckaroo and trapper, a modern-day outlaw, and cold-blooded murderer. But did he kill out of necessity, or was it a sense of wild west justice, or, was it some sick

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Episode 107: The Tragic Death of Two Spirit Fred...

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2025/06/25

Fred Matinez was a Navajo teenager who identified as a traditional nádleehi, one born as a male but whose gender is fluid and often functions in the role of a woman. Because of this entwining of male and female spirits, the term “two spirit” is often used as well by indigenous LGBTQ+ peoples.On June 16, 2001 Fred Martinez was brutally murdered, just a quarter of a mile from his home, becoming one of the youngest victims of a hate crime in modern history. This is his story. And from all of us here

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BONUS: CULT FOLLOWING an interview with J.W. Ocker

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2025/06/18

We are thrilled to have Edgar Award Winning author and weird history expert J.W. Oker on the show to discuss his newest book Cult Following: The Extreme Sects That Capture Our Imaginations―and Take Over Our Lives an insightful yet quirky and often times amusing look at thirty different cults, from heavy hitters like the Manson Family, Jim Jones and Aum Shinrikyo, to lesser known groups you may have never heard of like the Divine Order of the Royal Arms of the Great Eleven and the John Frum Cargo

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