Murder Coaster

Many lost souls find each other on the internet, bonding over common interests and shared fantasies. But never in the history of the internet have two lonely hearts ever made the type of connection that Armin Meiwes and Bernd Brandes made.

Their brief love affair would be one of unbridled passion, wild and untamed fantasy fulfillment and dark savage urges, as well as murder and cannibalism.

Ladies and gentlemen, brace yourselves for the chilling tale of the Rotenburg Cannibal, for today we bring you the story of the master butcher, Armin Meiwes, and his willing meal, Bernd Brandes.

Buckle up, keep your hands and feet in the ride, and get ready for a journey into the wildest, weirdest, and grossest episode we've ever presented: THE CANNIBAL SOULMATES

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References:

Cannibal: The True Story of the Maneater of Rotenberg by Lois Jones

Interview With a Cannibal: The Secret life of the Monster of Rottenberg by Gunter Stampf

Cannibal Killers: Murders Who Kill and Eat their Victims by Peter Haining

Eat Thy Neighbor: A History of Cannibalism by Daniel Diehl and Mark P. Donnelly

Cannibals: True Stories of the Horrifying Killers Who Feast on Human Flesh by Jimmy Lee Shreeve

The Most Bizarre True Crime Stories Ever Told: 20 Unforgettable and Twisted True Crime Cases that Will Haunt You by Jack Rosewood

Convicted cannibal gets supervised day trips in disguise (nypost.com)

Victim of cannibal agreed to be eaten | World news | The Guardian

German Cannibal Sentenced to Life in Prison – DW – 05/09/2006

The Trial | Crime + Investigation UK (crimeandinvestigation.co.uk)

Armin Meiwes - Wikipedia

German court finds cannibal guilty of murder | World news | The Guardian

Greetings dear listeners. As many of you may know, Gypsy Rose Blanchard will be released from prison tomorrow, December 28, 2023, after serving eight and a half years for the murder of her mother.

So, we've gone back to a previous episode and added our thoughts on the case with a special introduction. Enjoy and thank you so much for listening.

The Story of Gypsy Rose Blanchard

Everyone in the small community of Springfield, Missouri adored Dee Dee Blanchard and her disabled daughter Gypsy Rose. They were survivors of hurricane Katrina and had been through so much. Gypsy was quadriplegic, had been in a wheelchair most her short life, and suffered from a host of ailments, including leukemia, epilepsy, and muscular dystrophy, she was also severely mentally handicapped, but she braved all her struggles stoically, with a smile on her face.

Then in June 2015, after a series of incredibly disturbing Facebook posts, authorities went to their home to discover Dee Dee dead. She’d been murdered, stabbed to death in her bed. And Gypsy was missing.

What followed was a series of twists and turns wilder than anyone could ever have imagined, where absolutely nothing was as it seems.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s story is a haunting tale of manipulation, abuse and a web of lies that unraveled in the most horrifying way. In this episode we peel back the layers of deception to reveal the dark secrets hidden behind closed doors. We’ll unravel the complex psychology behind Munchausen syndrome by proxy as we examine the shocking details of this bizarre case.

Brace yourself for an episode that will challenge your perceptions of truth, trust and love, and shed light on the darkness that can lurk behind the most heroic appearing facades.

Join us as we venture into the chilling world of Gypsy Rose Blanchard and uncover the shocking secrets that lay hidden for far too long.

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References:

Amazon.com: Released: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom eBook : Blanchard, Gypsy-Rose, Moore, Melissa, Matrisciani, Michele: Kindle Store

Mommy Dead and Dearest HBO Documentary directed by Erin Lee Carr

Gypsy’s Revenge documentary directed by Jesse Vile.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard is now married despite still being in prison (msn.com)

New England in the 1800s was gripped with a vampire panic. Belief in the undead rising from their graves at night to feed off the living, spreading pestilence and disease, was rampant, and as families watched their children grow sickly and pale, struggling to breathe and withering away, they saw no choice but to seek out the offending creatures of the night, by digging up their corpses, hacking out their hearts and livers, burning them, and then consuming the ashes. It was seen as the only way to cure the affliction.

In reality, tuberculosis was spreading throughout the small farms and villages, a disease that was then known as consumption, as it consumed one from the inside out. But before the concept of airborne germs spreading contagious disease was understood, villagers were marching out into the night with shovels in hand, and under the light of lanterns and torches, digging up the dead and desecrating their bodies in the hopes curing sick family members.

How this ghoulish phenomenon became known to historians is an unsettling tale in itself.

Today, ladies and gentlemen, we present to you haunting tales of New England Vampires, culminating in the most famous case of all, that of Mercy Lena Brown, a nineteen-year-old farm girl whose body was desecrated in the hopes of curing her brother from the vampire curse.

The legend of Mercy Brown lives on so much so that her gravestone has been stolen and now must be guarded by police on Halloween night. Her story has inspired countless tales of horror, from H.P. Lovecraft and Bram Stroker to modern writers such as Paul Tremblay.

But who was the real Mercy Brown? And what circumstances led to the disinterment of her corpse and the removal and cremation of her heart?

Listen and find out!

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References:

Food for the Dead: On the Trail of new England’s Vampires by Michael Bell

The Belief in Vampires in Rhode Island by Sidney S. Rider

Vampire Legends of Rhode Island by Christopher Rondina

A History of Vampires in New England by D'Agostino, Thomas

The Great New England Vampire Panic | History| Smithsonian Magazine

New England 'Vampire' Was Likely a Farmer Named John | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine

The Vampires of Rhode Island: Not Unfamiliar With This Plague. Ruth Ellen Rose, 15, Exeter 1874 – The Avocado (the-avocado.org)

Lizzie Borden. The name has been etched into the American consciousness through countless books, movies, even a heavy metal band and a haunting and disturbing children’s rhyme which you can hear on playgrounds to this day.

She was the first, modern American Psycho, a woman of class and privilege who caved her parent’s heads in with an axe.

Theories over her innocence or guilt, as well as the vicious and brutal murders themselves, abound, titillating tales of lesbian affairs, incestual sex, and bloody killings committed in the nude.

Today, ladies and gentlemen, we break it all down for you: the strange Borden family, their weird house, the details of the gruesome murder and all the wild conspiracy theories explored and explained.

So, buckle up into the murder coaster, for off we go, with the tale of Lizzie Borden.

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References:

A Private Disgrace: Lizzie Borden by Daylight by Victoria Lincoln

The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden and the Trial of the Century by Sarah Miller

Lizzie Borden. The Trial, the Truth, the Final Chapter by Arnold R. Brown

Goodbye Lizzie Borden. The Story of the Trial of America’s Most Famous Murderess by Robert Sullivan

The Trial of Lizzie Borden by Cara Robertson

Lizzie 2018 American biographical thriller film directed by Craig William Macneill, written by Bryce Kass, and starring Chloë Sevigny, Kristen Stewart.

The Curse of Lizzie Borden 2022 documentary by Dave Schrader

The Legend of Lizzie Borden 1975 television film directed by Paul Wendkos and starring Elizabeth Montgomery

Official Lizzie Borden House (lizzie-borden.com)

Lizzie Borden House – Haunted Houses

Lizzie Borden House: One Of The Most Haunted Places In Massachusetts (onlyinyourstate.com)

Learn the disturbing truth behind the Conjuring Haunting.

There’s a legend of a murderous and devil-worshipping witch that once dwelled in Rhode Island in the early eighteen hundreds by the name of Bathsheba who sacrificed babies to Satan and whose ghost is said to haunt the land.

The legend has become so pervasive that the Burrillville cemetery, where her grave is located, has become a tourist destination for the occult obsessed, some of whom have vandalized the grave and defaced the gravestone.

And the real issue at hand, is that these myths and legends of a demonic witch who murdered children and inspired the Conjuring films, appear to be complete bullshit. These bizarre accusations and rumors didn’t even exist at all until the 1970s, a hundred and forty years after the death of the real Bathsheba.

So how did an innocent woman become the subject of slander and urban myth? We'll lay it all out for you, ladies and gentlemen, as we bring you the legend of Bathsheba and truth behind the Conjuring Haunting.

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References:

House of Darkness House of Light Volumes 1,2 and 3 by Andrea Perron

Stories of the Forgotten: Infamous, Famous and Unremembered by J'aime Rubio

Correcting the Conjuring House History | Skeptical Inquirer

Restoring the reputation of Bathsheba Sherman after ‘The Conjuring’ (bostonglobe.com)

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/05/26/metro/rhode-islands-conjuring-house-sold-with-one-stipulation-no-one-can-live-there-year-round/

The real Conjuring house in Rhode Island and its 300-year history (fancypantshomes.com)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brendarichardson/2022/05/26/the-conjuring-house-in-rhode-island-sells-for-1525-million/

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Happy release day to THE DAUGHTERS OF BLOCK ISLAND and congratulations to cohost Christa Carmen!!

Christa tells us all about her love of Gothic horror and her new book THE DAUGHTERS OF BLOCK ISLAND.

It is a book filled with mystery, murder, intrigue, ghosts, red herrings, twists and turns, an underground labyrinth of dungeons and tunnels, and a haunted mansion, everything a Murder Coaster listener would want in a spooky and Gothic tale of crime and deception.

It’s already being lavished with praise.

Book List calls it, "A compelling and atmospheric thriller."

Kirkus Reviews calls it, "Great fun."

And Cemetary Dance says, "The gothic horror novel just received a massive shot of adrenaline to its bleak-but-beautiful-heart and readers will be smiling under candlelight for years to come. An exceptional new talent has arrived."

Get THE DAUGHTERS OF BLOCK ISLAND everywhere you buy fine books, including:

Barnes and Noble: The Daughters of Block Island: A Novel by Christa Carmen, Paperback | Barnes & Noble® (barnesandnoble.com)

Amazon: Amazon.com: The Daughters of Block Island: A Novel: 9781662512988: Carmen, Christa: Books

Kindle: Amazon.com: The Daughters of Block Island: A Novel eBook : Carmen, Christa: Books

Christa's Website: Christa Carmen

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Welcome back to our second and final episode on Sid and Nancy, the Romeo and Juliette of punk rock.

Today we will explore the tumultuous relationship of these two star-crossed lovers, the implosion of the Sex Pistols, and then get into the mysteries surrounding this infamous case. Who killed Nancy Spungen? And was the death of Sid Vicious an overdose or suicide?

Ladies and Gentlemen, we present to you, Sid and Nancy, part two: Love Kills.

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References:

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk book edited by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain

And I Don’t Want to Live This Life: A Mother’s Story of Her Daughter’s Murder book by Deborah Spungen

Sid Vicious: No One Is Innocent book by Alan Parker

Pretty Vacant: A History of UK Punk book by Phil Strongman

The Filth and the Fury: A Sex Pistols Film directed by Julian Temple

Sad Vacation: The Last Days of Sid and Nancy documentary written by Brett Dunford and directed by Danny Garcia

Love Kills: The Story of Sid and the Sex Pistols documentary

Sid and Nancy film directed by Alex Cox

(336) Sid Vicious - My Way (Original and Complete Version) - YouTube

Sid and Nancy. They were the Romeo and Juliette of punk rock, star-crossed lovers, each despised and hated by the other's friends and family, bound together by fate and passion into a forlorn and doomed romance that would see them both dead in the prime of their youth.

Their relationship is the stuff of legend, of films, books, songs, and poems, a tumultuous and violent affair riddled with drugs and fighting, but an affair of deep love and unbridled passion nonetheless that would end in murder and a possible suicide.

Today we explore the childhood of these two ill-fated rockers, as well as the formation of the Sex Pistols and the roads that led to their forlorn meeting.

Ladies and gentlemen, we bring you the story of punk rock’s most infamous couple Sid and Nancy, Part One: The Star-Crossed Lovers.

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https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/2818884/x/31547703?secret_perk_token=f5d68533

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References:

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk book edited by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain

And I Don't Want to Live This Life: A Mother's Story of Her Daughter's Murder book by Deborah Spungen

Sid Vicious: No One Is Innocent book by Alan Parker

Pretty Vacant: A History of UK Punk book by Phil Strongman

The Filth and the Fury: A Sex Pistols Film directed by Julian Temple

Sad Vacation: The Last Days of Sid and Nancy documentary written by Brett Dunford and directed by Danny Garcia

Love Kills: The Story of Sid and the Sex Pistols documentary

Sid and Nancy film directed by Alex Cox

The story of professional skateboarder Gator is a distinctly American tale about a rocket to success and a tumble to disgrace. It is also a story about the history skateboarding and Southern California culture, a story of celebrity and fame, of bizarre religious mania, sexual sadism and murder.

Mark Rogowski was just a child when his mother brought him from Brooklyn to San Diego, and beach culture, which involved surfboards and expensive clothing, seemed unobtainable to him, something out of his grasp.

But he'd go on to be one of the greatest skateboarders in the world at the time, and come to personify the California sexiness and wild punk spirit of skateboarding, having an entire clothing line modeled after him. He'd also be a symbol of rockstar lawlessness and debauchery.

But after a drunken decline, he fell into a strange combination of religion, alcohol and hard drugs, resulting in the brutal assault and murder of an innocent girl.

Ladies and gentlemen, we present to you the story of Gator and the horrific and utterly tragic death of Jessica Bergsten told in five chapters.

And be sure to check out I'LL BE GLAD WHEN YOU'RE DEAD's Indigogo campaign, links:

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References:

THRASHER MAGAZINE June 1984, April 1986, June 1986, July, 1987, and November 1987,

TRANSWORLD SKATEBOARDING MAGAZINE October 1987

STOKED: The Rise and Fall of Gator documentary film directed by Helen Stickler

Mark "Gator" Rogowski: Free Fallin' - The Village Voice

SHATTERED Television Show, Season Two Episode 6: The Darkside

Parole grant reversed for 'Gator,' former skateboard superstar convicted for 1991 rape, murder - The San Diego Union-Tribune (sandiegouniontribune.com)

New York Times bestselling, Edgar Award winning author Harry N MacLean joins us to discuss his new true crime book STARKWEATHER: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree That Changed America.

In late 1957 and early 1958 nineteen-year-old Charles Starkweather went on a spree of crime and murder through the American heartland, much of it accompanied by his fourteen-year-old girl friend Caril Ann Fugate, that would leave eleven dead, including Caril’s own parents and toddler sister.

The crimes sent shock waves throughout the world and became a cultural phenomenon, inspiring numerous films and songs, including Natural Born Killers, Badlands, and the song "Nebraska" by Bruce Springsteen.

Most saw them as a murderous and callous Romeo and Juliet, hellbent juvenile delinquents in love, both complicit. Starkweather received a death sentence and died in the electric chair, Caril Anne was convicted of first-degree murder and would spend nearly two decades behind bars. But there were a flurry of unanswered questions, such as, how complicit was Caril Ann in the crimes? Was it justice that was sought or vengeance? And was a not only completely innocent teenage girl, but an actual victim, found guilty of crimes she didn’t commit?

New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award winner Harry N MacLean set out to answer these questions with his new book STARKWEATHER: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America. Harry grew up in Lincoln Nebraska where the crimes took place and had ties with the victims as well as Starkweather and Fugate, and today we are delighted to have him on the show to discuss these crimes, their cultural ramifications and the complicity of Carol Ann Fugate.

STARKWEATHER: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree That Changed America goes on sale November 28, 2023 everywhere you get books, pre-orders available now.

And be sure to check out amazing horror movie in production I’LL BE GLAD WHEN YOU’RE DEAD‘s Indigogo campaign, links:

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