You began to plant the seed in people's minds.

But I think in the process, you did create a media image of me that's far beyond the reality of me.

And this craving, this awful raging eating feeling inside. I could feel it consuming my insides. It was overwhelming me.

Hello again, guys, and welcome to serial killing a podcast. My name is Alyssa Carroll, and I am the

host, writer, editor, all of the things.

And over here, we talk about all manner of true crime at this point, but we also get

the whole picture to, you know, fully explore the nature versus nurture aspect of people

who commit horrible crimes.

If you enjoy learning the kind of what's in the whys, then you've

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So this week's podcast is another revisit, but it's for good reason. There is a new Dracula movie that will make its way to the

States this February. It's already been released in France, and I believe Italy now, but

don't hold me to that last one. From the edits and the reels that I've seen on TikTok and

everywhere, the movie looks to lean toward being a lot like

1992's Bram Stoker's Dracula with Gary Oldman and Winona Ryder, which is a favorite of mine.

This episode will be on the true story of the historical figure of Vlad Dracula, Prince of Wallachia. Most know him as

Vlad the Impaler. So on a personal note, Vlad has been one of my most beloved persons from history

since I was a young teenager. Being the huge nerd that I am back in the day when

my class was assigned to write a small kind of two-page report on a person from history,

while I wrote a full 10 pages, I believe, front and back on Servilod, right? Often misunderstood,

used as a bargaining tool by his own father, and his later desperate attempt to keep the Ottoman Empire out of his beloved homeland. Vlod's story is

fascinating, so I do hope that you enjoy. So the new movie titled Dracula A Love Tale, as well as Bram Stoker's Dracula, again from the 90s,

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