Nightmare on Main Street: The Markle Family Murders
LOVE MURDER
Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
A stormy night, a black out and a mysterious phone call lead the police to an eerie house on a hill containing the bodies of an entire family. All of this, plus a connection to The Exorcist, feels like the setup to a particularly scary movie. Instead, it was a real life tragedy that took place in November 1987.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, Jesse, last week reconfirmed why I'm not a sports girlie. |
| 0:04.9 | What's the story this time around? |
| 0:06.3 | A stormy night, a blackout, and a mysterious phone call lead the police to an eerie house on a hill |
| 0:12.7 | containing the bodies of an entire family. |
| 0:16.1 | All of this, plus a connection to the exorcist, feels like the setup to a particularly scary movie, |
| 0:22.7 | but it is in fact a real-life tragedy that occurred in November of 1987. |
| 0:28.2 | I'm Andy Cassette. |
| 0:29.2 | And I'm Jesse Prey, and this is Love Murder. |
| 0:58.7 | Thank you. Hi. Hi, Andy. |
| 0:59.6 | Hi, Jesse. |
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