Cloudy with a Chance of Murder

If you love Netflix's Mindhunter as much as I do, you might be interested in learning about the real serial killers and FBI agents who inspired the series. Of course we all know about Charles Manson, Dennis Rader (the BTK killer), and Richard Speck, but here's some interesting info about the less infamous people who were inspirations for the fascinating characters on Mindhunter . The Real Serial Killers and FBI Agents Who Inspired Netflix's Mindhunter

Netflix released their new Ted Bundy movie yesterday, and if you're a true crime junkie, you're going to want to check it out. Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile  stars Zac Efron, Lily Collins, Kaya Scodelario, and John Malkovich, and it focuses on Bundy's (Zac Efron) relationship with Liz Kendall (Lily Collins) as well as his arrests and trials. All the actors were great, especially Zac Efron and Lily Collins. I'll admit that I was skeptical when I first heard that Zac Efron had been cast as Ted Bundy, but he did an amazing job, and I was really impressed with his performance in this movie. I thought the film did a great job at evoking the time period it was set in (loved the '70s wardrobe), and since it didn't spend much time showing Bundy's crimes, it felt very different from the other movies I've seen that are based on true crimes (in a good way). I really liked Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile and highly recommend it. Netflix:...

I watch The Late Show with Stephen Colbert every night and thought this ad for a fake Netflix serial killer documentary was pretty funny...so of course I had to share it here. : )

If you're a true crime buff, there's no shortage of Netflix content to keep you entertained, and they recently added an interesting show called I Am a Killer . In each episode, we meet a death row inmate and hear his side of the story. More than 8,000 people have been sentenced to death in America since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, and we meet ten of these people in  I Am a Killer : James Robertson, Kenneth Foster, Justin Dickens, Miguel Angel Martinez, Charles Thompson, David Lewis, Deandra Buchanan, Robert Shafer, Joshua Nelson, and Wayne Doty. We don't often get to hear from the killers on these types of shows, so it's fascinating to hear these men tell their stories. I've only watched the first four episodes so far, but what struck me was how normal some of these men seem. I was expecting them to come off as truly evil, but in most of the episodes I've seen, the inmates appear to be regular people who feel genuinely remorseful about what they...

Netflix recently added a travel show called Dark Tourist , and in episode 3, host David Farrier travels to Milwaukee to find out about their Jeffrey Dahmer-centric tourism industry. He takes the Cream City Cannibal tour offered by Hangman Tours, which offers morbidly curious customers a chance to see where Dahmer found seven of his victims. The episode was fascinating, so I wanted to share it here in case any of my fellow true crime aficionados are interested in watching it: Dark Tourist: United States Also, if you're planning on visiting Milwaukee any time soon, you can book the Cream City Cannibal Tour here: Hangman Tours From what I saw on Dark Tourist , this tour looks really informative and interesting, so check it out if you're into that sort of thing...and if you're reading this blog, I'm guessing you are. ; )

Who Took Johnny is a 2014 documentary about 12-year-old Johnny Gosch, who disappeared while delivering newspapers in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1982. The documentary focuses on Johnny's mother, Noreen Gosch, who is still trying to find out what happened to her son more than three decades after he went missing. Johnny was last seen around 6 a.m. on September 5, 1982; he had taken his dog with him when he left to deliver papers that morning, and though Johnny never made it home, the dog came back on her own a few hours later. Neighbor John Rossi saw Johnny talking to a driver who was asking for directions, and when Johnny asked John if he could help the man, the car took off. A fellow paperboy saw a tall man follow Johnny that morning, and a neighbor witnessed (from his bedroom window) a car stop at the corner of 42nd and Marcourt Lane, where Johnny was parking his wagon of newspapers. When the car drove away, the wagon was still there, but Johnny was gone. Noreen and her husband, John, w...