Cloudy with a Chance of Murder

American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson is a 2016 anthology TV series starring Cuba Gooding Jr. (O.J. Simpson), Sterling K. Brown (Christopher Darden), Kenneth Choi (Judge Lance Ito), Nathan Lane (F. Lee Bailey), Sarah Paulson (Marcia Clark), David Schwimmer (Robert Kardashian), John Travolta (Robert Shapiro), Courtney B. Vance (Johnnie Cochran), Bruce Greenwood (Gil Garcetti), Christian Clemenson (Bill Hodgman), and Steven Pasquale (Mark Fuhrman). I'm a fan of Ryan Murphy (who is one of this show's executive producers and also directed a few episodes), so when I saw that Netflix had American Crime Story , I had to watch it. I was only 13 when Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were murdered, so it was interesting to delve more deeply into the case now that I'm a true crime-addicted adult. The pilot was so good that I was hooked immediately and ended up watching nine episodes in a row (and it was so hard to leave the last episode until the next day, but it was a...

I've written about Hollyweird Paranormal, a podcast hosted by Tammie Merheb-Chavez and Brice Mitchell Williams that combines true crime and the paranormal (two of my favorite things), on my paranormal blog a few times, and I've listened to every episode because I love it so much. They went on hiatus for a few weeks, but now they're back with a great new episode, "The True Crime and Paranormal Aftermath of the Wonderland Murders." If you're into true crime (and I'm assuming you are if you're reading this blog), you've got to check out Hollyweird Paranormal! : ) Hollyweird Paranormal

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...

Twenty years ago today, the world lost one of comedy's brightest minds when the incredible Phil Hartman was shot to death in his sleep. The culprit? His wife, Brynn, who took her own life a few hours later. Phil's murder was the first crime that ever really affected me; I'd loved him on Saturday Night Live  and Pee-wee's Playhouse, and at the time of his death, I had never loved a show more than I loved Newsradio . I couldn't believe that someone who brought so much joy to the world lost his life in such a tragic way, and I still remember the moment I found out about Phil's death. When Newsradio came back on the air in September 1998, their fifth season premiere dealt with the death of Phil's character, Bill McNeal, and I have no idea how the cast managed to get through it...I've never cried so much watching a TV show, and I never had the privilege of meeting Phil, let alone working with him like the amazing Newsradio  cast. I haven't been able to wa...

This isn't true crime, but when Tina Fey hosted Saturday Night Live  last weekend, one of the sketches was about a To Catch a Predator -like show called Pervert Hunters . I thought it was pretty funny, so I wanted to share it here...the sketch stars Tina Fey, Beck Bennett, and Mikey Day, and I hope you enjoy it. : )

It was huge news last month when a genealogy website helped lead to the arrest of the Golden State Killer, who police had been after for more than four decades. Last week another cold case was solved this way, and William Earl Talbott II, 55, was arrested for the 1987 murders of Jay Cook, 20, and Tanya Van Cuylenborg, 18. A Double Murder From 1987 Was Just Solved Thanks To The Genealogy Website Used For The Golden State Killer I think it's great that investigators have found a new way to solve cases and bring closure to families who thought the killer of their loved ones might never be caught. I hope this leads to more murderers being identified and more cold cases being closed, and I bet some of these killers who were sure they had gotten away with their crimes are feeling pretty nervous right about now.

I'm going to ScareLA, a cool Halloween/ horror convention, in a few months and wanted an appropriate pair of earrings to wear with my Scream Queens costume...and I found them (on eBay)! I thought some of you true crime fans might like these too. : )