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“Woman of the Hour,” tells the chilling and unbelievable story of serial killer Rodney Alcala, who appeared on the hit game show “The Dating Game” in 1978, amid his murder spree. This earned him the moniker “The Dating Game Killer.” Now streaming on Netflix, the movie – which Kendrick, 39, also stars in – follows the events around Alcala’s appearance on the show. “The Dating Game” premiered in 1965 and although ABC dropped it in 1973, it continued in syndication through 1999.

resident Rex Heuermann, 61, was arrested in 2023 for murdering seven women. “When I learned he was arrested, I was honestly just shocked.

as a serial killer dad in “Happy Face,” premiering March 20 on Paramount+. “Serial killers are very easy to play,” Quaid, 70, exclusively told The Post, while promoting his “True To Texas” ad campaign. “Because they really kind of don’t have any emotion,” the “Substance” actor explained.

Rodney Alcala, who was on the hit game show “The Dating Game” in 1978, amid his murder spree. His story was made into the new Netflix movie “Woman of the Hour,” directed by and starring Anna Kendrick.There’s also John Cooper, who was on the TV darts contest show “Bullseye” in 1989.

recently announced that Season 3 of Ryan Murphy’s hit Netflix anthology series, “Monster” — which had popular previous seasons about Jeffrey Dahmer and the Menendez brothers — will be about Gein, starring Charlie Hunnam. Harold Schechter, a true crime historian and author who wrote the definitive book about Gein, “Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original Psycho,” told The Post that up until Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” came out in 1960, all the horror movie monsters were from “other places – Eastern European monsters like Dracula and Frankenstein or the Wolfman.

horror is derived directly from the ancient Latin to “tremble or shudder.” What makes us seek this shudder in slasher movies, ghost stories, and zombie flicks? This excellent article from “Harvard Business Review” argues that humans love horror movies because they offer two-fold stimulation, simultaneously triggering anxiety and excitement and delivering a hot hit of adrenaline. In this sense, horror provides a feeling not wildly dissimilar from a theme park ride or a first date; butterflies from bloodshed, if you will. In a shock to no one, individuals who exhibit higher levels of empathy are less inclined to enjoy horror than those with fair to middling rates of compassion.

quipped on the sexually charged ABC hit. “Between takes you might find him skydiving or motorbiking. Please welcome Rodney Alcala!”Skydiving and motorbiking weren’t the half of it.

“House of the Devil” is widely regarded as the first horror movie ever made. In a handful of minutes, the devil conjures a woman from a cauldron and tortures two noblemen with bats, witches, and disappearing furniture, only to be brought down by that old ace in the hole, a giant crucifix. In the years since, horror villains have evolved alongside our collective fears and desires, proving that what we repress returns to haunt and hunt us.

San Diego Comic-Con over the weekend, Showtime announced that “Dexter” star Michael C. Hall, 53, will join the cast of “Dexter: Original Sin.” And that’s not all, he’ll also star in another series called “Dexter: Resurrection.” For those who are keeping count, this brings the tally up to four “Dexter” shows: the original “Dexter” (which aired on Showtime from 2006-2013), the 2021 sequel series “Dexter: New Blood,” and now, the two upcoming shows “Dexter: Original Sin” and “Dexter: Resurrection.” This is three “Dexter” series too many. And, it’s bizarre that these shows all exist.

Find below The Post’s guide to the best murder mystery and serial killer true crime documentaries.This 2017 Netflix documentary is sure to send shivers down your spine and will most likely keep you up at night wanting to know what happens next. Based on the unsolved murder of beloved nun Cathy Cesnik, “The Keepers” follows filmmakers as they attempt to solve the mysterious murder of the Baltimore native who disappeared in November 1979 only to be found dead two months later.

Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, The Behavioral Science Unit and My Life as a Woman in the FBI” (Abrams Press), out Tuesday.Monroe, now 69, was in the middle of investigating multiple murders in Philadelphia that may or may not have been connected. Kemper, calling from prison in Vacaville, California, was willing to share his expertise.

Ed Gein offers fresh insight into the mind of “The Mad Butcher” — told, in parts, by Gein himself in never-before-heard audiotapes.“Psycho: The Lost Tapes of Ed Gein,” premiering Sept. 17 on MGM+, uses the tapes, unearthed in 2019, to delve into the mind of Gein, who was arrested in November 1957 in desolate Plainfield, WI.

quipped on the sexually charged ABC hit. “Between takes you might find him skydiving or motorbiking. Please welcome Rodney Alcala!”Skydiving and motorbiking weren’t the half of it.

stabbed to death by her other daughter in 2016, before she could see Shannan’s killer caught. In the movie’s original synopsis, it said, “Though the search for the killer is still ongoing, Mari’s passionate dedication to giving her daughter and other forgotten women a voice, and the attention they deserve, has kept the case alive with hopes of a breakthrough soon.” However, there was a breakthrough in the case on July 14.Heuermann, 59 – a New York City architect and married dad of two – was arrested and charged in three of the killings: Megan Waterman, Melissa Barthelemy and Amber Costello. He was caught after DNA from the hair of victim Megan Waterman matched his DNA, which investigators took from a discarded pizza crust in January.Lifetime’s “The Gilgo Beach Killer” will feature new content from executive producer and Emmy Award-winning journalist Deborah Norville, who will provide updated and new details about the case.

abuelas. So, in 1998, when a rash of killings seemed to be targeting Mexico City’s elderly women, many of whom were grannies, residents were up in arms. The mysterious murderer was a shadowy figure who came to be known as the Old Lady Killer.

Viaplay.“There is an Icelandic detective [Ragnar Jónsson] that has been on the force for 30-something years and he had this idea [for ‘Black Sands’] for the longest time,” Hamilton, 32, told The Post. “He wanted to write a TV series revolving around a young male police officer … and we actually met and started talking while I was doing another series and he was training me to handcuff people.“He shared his idea with me and I really liked it and said, ‘Have you ever considered this police officer as a woman?’ He said, ‘No, I haven’t.

which weren’t cracked until 2021. This behavior would continue well into the 1970s; in the end, he would claim to have killed no less than 37 people.For half a century, the notorious killer — whose real identity remains a mystery — was believed to be a sole actor.“It’s very unusual for cold cases to have this much information. But if you read all the police files, you see that there’s very little linking these crimes together.

slammed the show. The cousin of the serial killer’s 11th victim, Errol Lindsey, 19, tweeted, “I’m not telling anyone what to watch, I know true crime media is huge [right now], but if you’re actually curious about the victims, my family (the Isbells) are pissed about this show.

The Torso Killer Confessions,” Anzilotti has now closed his seventh cold-case linked to serial killer Richard Cottingham: the murder of Mary Ann Della Sala, who was 17 when she vanished in January 1967 after working her shift at the Shop-Rite on Essex Street in Hackensack.Her body was found three months later in the Passaic River in Hawthorne; the case remained unsolved until March 2022, when Anzilotti elicited a confession from Cottingham, kept secret until now. Cottinghman, 76, is serving six life sentences after terrorizing Bergen County and the surrounding area with a string of brutal, unsolved murders from at least 1967 until his arrest in 1980.“I was determined … to use my retirement as a tool to get [Cottingham] to talk about more of those [cold] cases,” Anzilotti, 53, told The Post.

true crime shows may help prepare you if you find yourself in a similar situation, according to an expert on morbid curiosity.Coltan Scrivner, a research scientist at Recreational Fear Lab and an expert in morbid curiosity, feels there’s an almost primal reason people are endlessly fascinated by true crime content. According to Scrivner, morbid curiosity about dangerous people likely began some 300,000 years ago when humans began using language and engaging in proactive aggression instead of reactive aggression. “Now this presents a problem for people because with proactive aggression it’s hard to tell who is plotting to harm you,” says Scrivner. “So this put a selection pressure on our minds to learn to seek out information about people who are potentially dangerous.“True crime can have a learning component to it or at least a perceived learning component.

criticism from the family members of Dahmer’s victims, with some arguing the platform should have reached out to them beforehand about the series. “No matter what, it isn’t a good feeling for the family members, but it wasn’t a documentary, it’s a work of fiction,” Glass said. “For example, this idea that neighbors called all the time, they didn’t.