RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES-Harold Schechter
True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers in True Crime History
Dan Zupansky
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🗓️ 17 July 2020
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The necktie murders in Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy; Chicago’s Jazz Age crime of passion; the fatal hookup in Looking for Mr. Goodbar; the high school horrors committed by the costumed slasher in Scream. These and other cinematic crimes have become part of pop-culture history. And each found inspiration in true events that provided the raw material for our greatest blockbusters, indie art films, black comedies, Hollywood classics, and grindhouse horrors.
So what’s the reality behind Psycho, Badlands, The Hills Have Eyes, A Place in the Sun, Arsenic and Old Lace, and Dirty Harry? How did such tabloid-ready killers as Bonnie and Clyde, body snatchers Burke and Hare, Texas sniper Charles Whitman Jr., nurse-slayer Richard Speck, and Leopold and Loeb exert their power on the public imagination and become the stuff of movie lore?
In this collection of revelatory essays, true-crime historian Harold Schechter takes a fascinating trip down the crossroads of fact and fiction to reveal the sensational real-life stories that are more shocking, taboo, and fantastic than even the most imaginative screenwriter can dream up. RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES: The Shocking True Stories Behind the Movies' Most Memorable Crimes-Harold Schechter.
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| 0:00.0 | Locked Tilted Radio |
| 0:10.6 | You are now listening to True Murder, the most shocking killers in True Crime History |
| 0:16.0 | and the authors that have written about them. |
| 0:18.0 | Gacy, Bundy, Domer, The Nightstalker, BTK, |
| 0:24.0 | every week another fascinating author talking about the most shocking and infamous killers |
| 0:29.0 | in True Crime History. |
| 0:31.0 | True Murder with your host, journalist and author, Dan Zupansky. |
| 0:46.0 | Good evening. |
| 0:47.0 | Best-selling True Crime Master, Harold Schechter, explores the real-life headline-making psychos, |
| 0:53.0 | serial murders, frugal hungry couples and lady killers who inspired a century of classic films. |
| 1:01.0 | The necktie murders in Alfred Hitchcock's frenzy, Chicago Jazz Age crime of passion, |
| 1:08.0 | the fatal hookup and looking for Mr. Goodbar, the high school horrors committed by the costume slasher and scream. |
| 1:16.0 | These and other cinematic crimes have become part of pop culture history |
| 1:21.0 | and each found inspiration and true events that provided the raw material for our greatest blockbusters, |
| 1:28.0 | indie art films, black comedies, Hollywood classics and Grind House horrors. |
| 1:34.0 | So what's the reality behind psycho, badlands, the hills and eyes, a place in the sun, |
| 1:42.0 | arsenic and old lace and dirty hairy? |
| 1:45.0 | How did such tabloid-ready killers as Bonnie and Clyde, body snatchers, burkin hair, |
| 1:51.0 | Texas sniper, Charles Whitman Jr., nurse layer Richard Speck and Leopold and Loeb, |
| 1:58.0 | exert their power on the public imagination and become the stuff of movie lore. |
| 2:04.0 | In this collection of revelatory essays, True Crime Historian, Harold Schechter, |
| 2:09.0 | takes a fascinating trip down the crossroads and fact in fiction to reveal the sensational real-life stories |
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