Do you like scary movies?

How about True Crime?

Then you've come to the right place.

In our next three episodes, serial killers is spotlighting three of the most iconic horror

films of all time, and telling the terrifying true stories that inspired them.

It's a Halloween special we're calling Real Horror.

Enjoy Part 1 today, and don't forget to join us over the next week for Parts 2 and 3.

For the graphic nature of this episode, listener discretion is advised.

This episode includes discussions of gun violence, domestic violence, child abuse, sexual assault,

mutilation, and murder, including the murder of a child.

We advise extreme caution for children under 13.

We can assume it was probably a cold night in California.

Even Los Angeles can get chilly once the sun goes down.

Twenty-nine-year-old Kevin Williamson was house sitting for a friend that night, and everything

in the bungalow was unfamiliar.

You know how it is, spending the night in a strange place?

It can unsettle you for no good reason.

As a aspiring screenwriter trying to get by in Hollywood, Kevin was grateful for the

extra money, and he had figured the change of scenery might help him creatively.

But now that the darkness and cold had descended, it hit him just how alone he was, out in the

middle of the desert with only the TV for company.

Any noise made him jumpy.

...