A recent high school graduate. An Aruban vacation. A disappearance. A murder.

Natalee Holloway was visiting Aruba with friends and classmates for a graduation trip when she met Joran van der Sloot. Let's talk about the movie Natalee Holloway from 2009 and the meeting that changed the course of Natalee's life.

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A film set that was plagued with lightning strikes, bombings, close calls and the Antichrist. Can you guess what classic horror film this was?

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The Sex Pistols. The Punk Romeo and Juliet. Drug addiction. The most volatile, co-dependent relationship. Death.

Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen have been portrayed as madly in love and romantic. Couples dress up like them for Halloween. It was the beginning of the end for them when they met. Let's talk about Sid and Nancy (starring Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb) to see how they succumbed to their addictions, both to drugs and each other.

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Young love. Anonymous texts. Cyberbullying. A shocking truth.

Lauryn Licari and Owen McKenney were a new, young couple when both began receiving texts that would change their lives forever. Lauryn was the main target, receiving harassing and explicit texts over the course of almost two years. Let's talk about Mommy Meanest (starring Lisa Rinna) to uncover the truth about where the texts were coming from.

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Sacramento. The 80's. An elderly caretaker. Forgery. Grand theft. Murder.

Dorothea Puente, an unassuming, beloved community member, shocked the area when she was arrested for murder of several residents of her boarding house. Let's talk about Dorothea and what this 2025 movie got correct, and more importantly, what they flat out made up.

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Twin gynecologists. Parallel lives. Gods of their field. Addiction. Mental Decline. Mysterious deaths.

Stewart and Cyril Marcus were nearly identical, living nearly identical lives. The Marcus twins became pioneers of their field but descended into a spiral of addiction that destroyed their lives, ultimately leading to their deaths. Watch Dead Ringers (starring Jeremy Irons) with me to see the decline of the codependent brothers.

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A Boston University med student. A fiancée. Craigslist erotic services. Robberies. Murder.

The Boston area was shaken when a slew of attacks was all over the news. The attacker was given the moniker, The Craigslist Killer, when he murdered Julissa Brisman. The Craigslist Killer (starring Jake McDorman and William Baldwin) tells the story of how Philip Markoff was identified and caught.

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If you haven't listened to Episode 23 Lost Girls- 2020, go back and do so before listening.

The discovery and apprehension of the Long Island Serial Killer was delayed in huge part to the corruption and misconduct of the Suffolk County Police Department. In this continuation episode, I talk about the downfall of the highest-ranking officer in the department.

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