The legend of La Llorona is fairly straightforward. A mother scorned by her thoughtless husband seeks an unthinkable revenge. Hoping to cut him to the...
Throughout September, the Murder Made Fiction podcast has been discussing La Llorona – first with a primer (listen here), then 1933 Mexican film The Crying Woman (listen...
Mexican Gothic. After kicking off September with a primer on La Llorona (listen here), Jenn and I began looking at texts with one of the earliest...
Throughout Mexico and Central America, children grow up fearing La Llorona. Also known as the Weeping Woman, this menacing figure is said to lurk near various...
When most casual viewers think of true crime titles, they picture cheap recreations of disturbing violence or salacious documentaries highlighting the voice of a killer. While...
After opening with the month with a primer (listen) on Ed and Lorraine Warren, Jenn and I have spent August tackling their first few cinematic adventures....
It’s been a whirlwind August on Murder Made Fiction. We’ve spent most of the month on a deep dive into Ed and Lorraine Warren, starting with...
The world of ghost hunting and paranormal investigation in the second half of the 20th century was dominated by one power couple. Demonologist Ed Warren and...
Shark Month continues on the Murder Made Fiction podcast. Following our cross-over with Horror Queers on 1975’s Jaws, Norwegian film, Kon-Tiki (2012), and 2003’s Open Water, we’re...
On Sunday, January 25, 1998, Thomas and Eileen Lonergan joined a scuba diving excursion on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. Two days later, their belongings were found...
Shark Month is in full swing on the Murder Made Fiction podcast. We kicked things on when Jenn guest starred on an episode of Horror Queers...
When preparing her unprecedented case against disgraced surgeon Christopher Duntsch (Joshua Jackson), Assistant District Attorney Michelle Shughart (AnnaSophia Robb) had to make a difficult choice: either...
As Medical Horror month continues on Murder Made Fiction, Jenn and I move into the back half of season one of Peacock’s Dr. Death. We began June with...
Like it or not, we all know that malpractice is inevitable. Doctors are fallible human beings and every time we go under the knife, there’s a...
Jenn and I have tackled ‘theme’ months before on Murder Made Fiction, including a month dedicated to Australian true crime, survival cannibalism and nearly two months on...
As far as the hiring team at Dallas Medical Center knew, their newest doctor, Christopher Duntsch, was a well-respected neurosurgeon with an impressive CV and a...
Complicated or Stilted? Jenn and I have reached the end of our month exploring texts on Countess Elizabeth (or Erzsebet) Báthory. The 17th century noble woman...
Jenn and I are spending the month of May discussing Countess Elizabeth Báthory, the most notorious (and purportedly prolific) female serial killer in history. As Jenn...
Countess Elizabeth Báthory of Ecsed is widely regarded as one of the world’s most prolific serial killers. A Hungarian noblewoman born in 1560, she’s said to...
After a month of Amityville texts, Jenn and I are ready to flee the iconic haunted house (just like the Lutzs did in the original 1979...
After a month of Australian true crime titles, including Greg McLean’s Wolf Creek (listen), creature feature Black Water (listen), queer murders in Snowtown (listen) and, finally, abduction...
After kicking off Australian horror month with Greg McLean’s Wolf Creek (listen), Jenn and I have turned our attention to a crocodile-based creature feature. But rather than...
A Series of Calamities In 1846, the Donner-Reed Party set out from Independence, Missouri to make the journey west to a better life in California. What...
Buzz Buzz Buzz As Jenn and I embark on a month of “Survival Cannibalism” true crime titles, we’re binging Showtime’s Yellowjackets (not true crime, but loosely...
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