164: Gainesville Murders /"Screams" Conclusion

10/25/24 • 84 min

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This week we conclude the Gainesville Student Murders, sometimes known as the Gainesville Ripper Murders.

They do make for a scary movie, targeting a young, defenseless, student population. From a triple-murder to the killing of the Gainesvillle victims, this killer was vicious, yet cautiaus. Who's lying?

But however terrifying, there were some details that the movies got wrong. We can be stranger than we think, so stay strong!

Love y'all and Keep It Cryptic!

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This week we conclude the Gainesville Student Murders, sometimes known as the Gainesville Ripper Murders.

But however terrifying, there were some details that the movies got wrong. We can be stranger than we think, so stay strong!

Love y'all and Keep It Cryptic!

Darkcast promo of the week: And Then they Were Gone

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163: Horror Movies x True Crime

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Art and Life, movies and madness, do they always go hand in hand? We take a look at two cases that sit on different sides of the "inspired by" storyline.

Kelsey covers Allan Menzies, a story that involves mental illness, an obsession with the Queen of the Damned, and a very sad loss of innocent life. Movies often get blamed for inciting violent tendencies, but how much culpability can we give them when the movie is telling the person to do something truly evil? Can movies be accessories to murder?

Turning the tables, Alanna takes us to the USA for the horrific Gainesville Student Murders, aka the inspiration for Scream. We start off with the troubling childhood of Danny Rolling, the so-called Gainesville Ripper. Had he got the help he needed, would we still have had the triple-murder that kicked off a crime spree so chilling it inspired its own story? We'll never know, but stick around for part two of this murder rampage, it's a tough one that had to be split up due to time.

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Two Truths, One Lie! Happy Halloween Edition feat. Ye Olde Crime!

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Horror season is in full swing, and we have some scary stories for you, my cryptic cuties! We are so excited to be joined by special guest Lindsay Valenty of the Ye Olde Crime Podcast for some true or false tales of creeps!

If you are on Patreon, you know we have done our version of 2 Truths, 1 Lie scary stories and had so much fun , so here's some more you can play along with at home!

So listen in, guess along, there will be ghosts on stairs, in closets, naked men stealing pizzza, you name it we talk about some weird spooky shit! Thanks so much to our special guest, Lindsay, drop what you are doing and go check out her amazing podcast and our guest episode of their Crack the Cramp Word segment, all at Ye Olde Crime Podcast. Please don't haunt us closet-creeper, and always let your ghost girls accept your parcels, just warn us all first, for god's sakes. I'd rather ghost helpers than porch pirates, eh?

Hope you all had a Happy Halloween and get ready for more ghost stories to come! Boo-yah!!

Check out Lindsay and co-host Madison here: https://www.yeoldecrimepodcast.com/episodes

Keep it Cryptic!!

Apologies for my audio not being the clearest, we had some issues with recording remotely, but we hope it's worth the pain lol!

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