Halloween Murders

Crime Countdown

Spotify Studios

True Crime, History

4.4 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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No one bats an eye when they see gore or dead bodies on Halloween... and some cold-blooded killers use that to their advantage. Alaina and Ash recount Halloween night's most unsettling crimes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	There is an urban legend about Halloween.
0:07.9	A local neighborhood had a decorating contest, and the scariest house went all out.
0:13.0	Spider webs, rotting pumpkins, even a fake corpse hanging from their tree.
0:17.6	Did the week after Halloween?
0:19.4	The winning house didn't take their decorations down.
0:22.6	Nor the week after?
0:24.1	Or the week after that?
0:25.7	When the HOA called the cops, they revealed a sickening truth.
0:29.8	The corpse wasn't a decoration.
0:32.2	The homeowner had hung himself.
0:34.3	The legend speaks to the idea that Halloween for all its horror provides a sense of safety.
0:40.3	Because everything is scary, nothing is scary.
0:43.6	So when a crime does occur on Halloween, that makes it all the worse, because we aren't
0:47.8	expecting it.
0:48.8	Today, we're covering the top 10 Halloween murders.
0:52.2	The true crimes and real horror in the Sea of Fake Blood and Candy Gore.
0:59.8	Hey all you weirdos, welcome to the podcast original Crime Countdown.
1:17.3	I'm Ash, and I'm Elena.
1:19.4	Every week we'll highlight 10 fascinating stories of history's most engaging and unsettling
1:24.4	crimes, all picked by the podcast research gods.
1:28.5	This week we're counting down the top 10 Halloween murders.
1:32.5	Okay, first things first.
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