Warning. The following podcast is not suitable for all audiences.

We go into great detail with every case that we cover and do our best to bring viewers even deeper into the stories by utilizing disturbing audio and sound effects.

Trigger warnings from the stories we cover may include violence, rape,

murder, and offenses against children.

This podcast is not for everyone.

You have been warned. What's your favorite horror movie?

Friday the 13th, Halloween, Dawn of the Dead?

Thankfully, there's a sort of comfort that comes along with watching a horror movie because at the end of the day what you're watching on screen never really happened.

It's all make-believe, the invention of a geeked-out Hollywood screenwriter who for a couple of months had too much coffee and too little sleep.

But what if those on-screen monsters, those bloodthirsty demons, those sadistic killers?

What if they had some sort of real life roots?

There have been a lot of movies that bore the words based on a true story on their posters.

But what if one story?

One gruesome tale was so depraved that in fact it inspired a plethora of films and not just any films

depraved movies like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Psycho and the Silence of the Lambs.

Well in fact one single story did indeed inspire the stories of all

of these killers and all three of these movies and many many more. It's the story of

one man, two confirmed victims, and an unending supply of skinned and dried human flesh.

This is the true story of Ed Gien, the butcher of Plainfield, the real psycho.

I'm Courtney Shannon.

I'm Colin Brown, and you're listening to Murder in America. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. There once was a man in the head who wouldn't take a woman to bed when he wanted to

diddle he cut out the middle and hung the rest in the shed.

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