The Amityville Horror (1979) | The DeFeo Family Murders

02/21/22 • 124 min

REEL CRIMES: A True Crime and Movie Podcast

On this episode we’ll take a look at the 1979 film, The Amityville Horror, a story about George and Kathy Lutz and their tale of intense dread and chilling horror that would inspire several books and more than half a dozen films.

Bleeding walls, glowing red eyes, forces of evil commanding you to GET OUT, and swarms of flies...This is the story of the Amityville Horror and the events, both real and imagined, that created an American Horror story that has thrilled audiences for over 60 years.

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Once Upon A Crime...Randall Lee Smith | The Appalachian Trail Murderer

On May 19, 1981, Laura Susan Ramsay and Robert Mountford Jr. were hiking the Appalachian Trail in Virginia.

The pair were social workers from Maine and were using their trip to raise money for a school for mentally challenged children run by Rob Mountford's mother.

While they were staying at the Wapiti Shelter in Giles VA, Robert Mountford was shot in the head with a .22-caliber pistol, and Laura Ramsay was bludgeoned with a piece of iron and then stabbed repeatedly with a knife and a long nail.

Randall Lee Smith was convicted of the crime and served 15 years before getting out of prison on parole, only to strike again, 27 years after his original crimes.
Find out more on this bonus episode of REEL CRIMES, as we dive into the horrific true crime story of the The Appalachian Trail Murderer.
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SUMMER OF SAM (1999) | David Berkowitz

Between 1976 and 1977, “The .44 caliber Killer” as he was known in the press, murdered six people and injured seven more in shootings across the Bronx, Queens, and Brooklyn. He targeted young women and young couples, including, most famously, couples parked in cars at night and left cryptic messages, taunting the police and calling himself the “Son of Sam”.

23 years later, Director Spike Lee produced the crime thriller “Summer of Sam”, chronicaling the effects of a group of residents in New York, living through the killer’s reign of terror.

On this episode we’ll take a look at the 1999 film, ‘Summer of Sam’’ directed by Spike Lee, starring John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, and Mira Sorvino as well as the year-long murder spree and bizare investigation that inspired it.

Sex, drugs, disco, a record-setting heat wave, 24 hour blackout, and a city terrorized by a gun toting serial killer who claimed to take orders from his neighbor’s dog.

This is the story of the notorious serial killer David Berkowitz, known as the Son of Sam, and the Spike Lee joint he inspired.