It’s the week before we celebrate two full years of Murder, My Dude, and we kick off the countdown to Halloween with a fun-sized episode!

Also, both of your hosts were incredibly tired and decided to make it a short one this week.

But what we lack in length we make up for in body count. Vlad III of Wallachia, aka Vlad Dracula, aka Vlad the Impaler, was an especially brutal ruler even when judging by the especially brutal time he lived in.

Vlad’s on-again, off-again rule over Wallachia was rife with an unthinkable amount of executions for even the most minor of offenses. This week, we explore the life and death of the madman who was the inspiration for Bram Stoker’s titular vampire.

But first, we start with a look at a blackmailer and a bad boyfriend in This Week In Murder. Finally, we close with a historical edition of Who Died The Worst?

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