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Audio version: https://archive.org/download/sidetracks-live-friday-july-10th-2026-edition/Sidetracks%20LIVE_%20Friday%2C%20July%2010th%2C%202026%20Edition.mp3 Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Instagram. Also check out Jenny’s horror channel, The Scare Salon, and her true crime channel, Crime Immemorial. Check out Fright On Cue, a cool horror writing journal with image and text prompts. Please try out TubeBuddy! … Continue reading Sidetracks LIVE: Friday, July 10th, 2026 Edition

Wade Wilson, often referred to in the media as the “Deadpool Killer” because he shares a name with the fictional Marvel character, was convicted of the October 2019 murders of Kristine Melton and Diane Ruiz in Cape Coral, Florida. Prosecutors presented evidence that Wilson killed Melton after meeting her in a bar, then later murdered … Continue reading Episode 516: Wade Wilson – The Cape Coral Strangler (aka The Deadpool Killer)

Tom and Jenny talk about a 1991 comedy, written and co-produced by John Hughes and directed by Bryan Gordon, in which a Target janitor (Frank Whaley) and a shoplifting rich girl (Jennifer Connelly) fall in love and face off against robbers on an overnight shift. Audio version: https://archive.org/download/movie-time-career-opportunities-1991/Movie%20Time_%20Career%20Opportunities%20%281991%29.mp3 Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t … Continue reading Movie Time: Career Opportunities (1991)

Audio version: https://archive.org/download/sidetracks-live-friday-july-3rd-2026-edition/Sidetracks%20LIVE_%20Friday%2C%20July%203rd%2C%202026%20Edition.mp3 Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Instagram. Also check out Jenny’s horror channel, The Scare Salon, and her true crime channel, Crime Immemorial. Check out Fright On Cue, a cool horror writing journal with image and text prompts. Please try out TubeBuddy! … Continue reading Sidetracks LIVE: Friday, July 3rd, 2026 Edition

The Stockholm Porn Murders (Swedish: Porrmorden) refer to a series of three unsolved knife murders that occurred in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1989, all targeting men who worked at porn video shops. The victims were Rajandran “Chris” Chinakaruppan (35, murdered March 22 outside his home after closing a sex shop in Tensta), Francisc Kiraly (stabbed inside … Continue reading Episode 515: The Stockholm Porn Murders

Tom and Jenny discuss the cult classic slasher from 1981, loosely based on the Cropsey urban legend and featuring effects by Tom Savini. Audio version: https://archive.org/download/movie-time-the-burning-1981/Movie%20Time_%20The%20Burning%20%281981%29.mp3 Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Instagram. Also check out Jenny’s horror channel, The Scare Salon, and … Continue reading Movie Time: The Burning (1981)

Audio version: https://archive.org/download/sidetracks-live-friday-june-26th-2026-edition/Sidetracks%20LIVE_%20Friday%2C%20June%2026th%2C%202026%20Edition.mp3 Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Instagram. Also check out Jenny’s horror channel, The Scare Salon, and her true crime channel, Crime Immemorial. Check out Fright On Cue, a cool horror writing journal with image and text prompts. Please try out TubeBuddy! … Continue reading Sidetracks LIVE: Friday, June 26th, 2026 Edition

Wayne Adam Ford (born December 3, 1961), a former U.S. Marine and long-haul truck driver from California, murdered at least four young women between October 1997 and October 1998. He targeted vulnerable victims—often hitchhikers or sex workers around age 25—raping and killing them by strangulation or stabbing before dismembering three of the bodies and scattering … Continue reading Episode 514: Trucker Serial Killer Wayne Adam Ford

Tom and Jenny discuss a loose 1967 adaptation of a short story by August Derleth and H.P. Lovecraft. Audio version: https://archive.org/download/movie-time-the-shuttered-room-1967/Movie%20Time_%20The%20Shuttered%20Room%20%281967%29.mp3 Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Instagram. Also check out Jenny’s horror channel, The Scare Salon, and her true crime channel, Crime Immemorial. … Continue reading Movie Time: The Shuttered Room (1967)

Audio version: https://archive.org/download/sidetracks-live-friday-june-19th-2026-edition/Sidetracks%20LIVE_%20Friday%2C%20June%2019th%2C%202026%20Edition.mp3 Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Instagram. Also check out Jenny’s horror channel, The Scare Salon, and her true crime channel, Crime Immemorial. Check out Fright On Cue, a cool horror writing journal with image and text prompts. Please try out TubeBuddy! … Continue reading Sidetracks LIVE: Friday, June 19th, 2026 Edition

Pazuzu Algarad, born John Alexander Lawson on August 12, 1978, in San Francisco, was a self-proclaimed Satanist whose descent into severe mental illness and substance abuse turned a quiet suburban home at 2749 Knob Hill Drive in Clemmons, North Carolina, into a notorious “house of horrors.” Legally changing his name in 2002 to invoke the … Continue reading Episode 513: Satanist Killer Pazuzu Algarad

Audio version: https://archive.org/download/sidetracks-live-friday-june-12th-2026-edition/Sidetracks%20LIVE_%20Friday%2C%20June%2012th%2C%202026%20Edition.mp3 Video version (part 1): Video version (part 2): Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Instagram. Also check out Jenny’s horror channel, The Scare Salon, and her true crime channel, Crime Immemorial. Check out Fright On Cue, a cool horror writing journal with image … Continue reading Sidetracks LIVE: Friday, June 12th, 2026 Edition

Child beauty pageants are highly controversial competitions featuring contestants under 18—often toddlers and young children—judged on appearance, talent, interview skills, and stage presence in glitz (high-glamor with heavy makeup, spray tans, flippers, and elaborate costumes) or natural formats. Emerging in the early 1960s in the U.S. from earlier baby contests and adult pageants, the industry … Continue reading Episode 512: The Wild and Controversial World of Child Beauty Pageants

Tom and Jenny discuss Andrea Arnold’s 2016 coming-of-age road trip drama, starring Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, and Riley Keough. Audio version: https://archive.org/download/movie-time-american-honey-2016/Movie%20Time_%20American%20Honey%20%282016%29.mp3 Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Instagram. Also check out Jenny’s horror channel, The Scare Salon, and her true crime channel, Crime … Continue reading Movie Time: American Honey (2016)

Audio version: https://archive.org/download/sidetracks-live-friday-june-5th-2026-edition/Sidetracks%20LIVE_%20Friday%2C%20June%205th%2C%202026%20Edition.mp3 Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Instagram. Also check out Jenny’s horror channel, The Scare Salon, and her true crime channel, Crime Immemorial. Check out Fright On Cue, a cool horror writing journal with image and text prompts. Please try out TubeBuddy! … Continue reading Sidetracks LIVE: Friday, June 5th, 2026 Edition

Theresa Jimmie Francine Knorr (née Cross, born March 14, 1946) is an American woman convicted of the torture and murder of two of her six children in the 1980s. A deeply abusive and controlling mother, she subjected her family to years of extreme physical and psychological torment in their Sacramento, California home. Her crimes included … Continue reading Episode 511: Killer Mother Theresa Knorr

Tom and Jenny discuss Anna Biller’s comedy horror film, a stylized homage to 1960s thrillers that follows a witch who uses spells to get men to fall in love with her. Audio version: https://archive.org/download/movie-time-the-love-witch-2016/Movie%20Time_%20The%20Love%20Witch%20%282016%29.mp3 Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Instagram. Also … Continue reading Movie Time: The Love Witch (2016)

Audio version: https://archive.org/download/sidetracks-live-friday-may-29th-2026-edition/Sidetracks%20LIVE_%20Friday%2C%20May%2029th%2C%202026%20Edition.mp3 Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Instagram. Also check out Jenny’s horror channel, The Scare Salon, and her true crime channel, Crime Immemorial. Check out Fright On Cue, a cool horror writing journal with image and text prompts. Please try out TubeBuddy! … Continue reading Sidetracks LIVE: Friday, May 29th, 2026 Edition

Cassie Jo Stoddart was a 16-year-old high school junior from Pocatello, Idaho, who was brutally murdered on September 22, 2006, while house- and pet-sitting for her aunt and uncle. Two of her classmates and acquaintances, 16-year-old Brian Lee Draper and Torey Michael Adamcik, planned the attack as a “thrill kill” inspired by the Scream horror … Continue reading Episode 510: The Murder of Cassie Jo Stoddart – The Scream Killers

Tom and Jenny discuss the slick dystopian sci-fi vampire film from 2009, starring Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, and Sam Neill. Audio version: https://archive.org/download/movie-time-daybreakers-2009/Movie%20Time_%20Daybreakers%20%282009%29.mp3 Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Instagram. Also check out Jenny’s horror channel, The Scare Salon, and her true crime … Continue reading Movie Time: Daybreakers (2009)

Audio version: https://archive.org/download/sidetracks-live-friday-may-22-2026-edition/Sidetracks%20LIVE_%20Friday%2C%20May%2022%2C%202026%20Edition.mp3 Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Instagram. Also check out Jenny’s horror channel, The Scare Salon, and her true crime channel, Crime Immemorial. Check out Fright On Cue, a cool horror writing journal with image and text prompts. Please try out TubeBuddy! … Continue reading Sidetracks LIVE: Friday, May 22, 2026 Edition

Oba Chandler Jr. (October 11, 1946 – November 15, 2011) was an American convicted mass murderer, rapist, robber, and fraudster executed by lethal injection in Florida for the brutal 1989 triple murder of Joan Rogers and her teenage daughters Michelle (17) and Christe (14). The Ohio family, on vacation in Florida, was lured onto Chandler’s … Continue reading Episode 509: Rapist and Murderer Oba Chandler

Tom and Jenny discuss Sam Raimi’s darkly comedic survival horror film, in which an awkward, browbeaten corporate worker is trapped on a remote island with her terrible boss after a plane crash. Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Instagram. Also … Continue reading Movie Time: Send Help (2026)

Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Instagram. Also check out Jenny’s horror channel, The Scare Salon, and her true crime channel, Crime Immemorial. Check out Fright On Cue, a cool horror writing journal with image and text prompts. Please try out TubeBuddy! And … Continue reading Sidetracks LIVE: Friday, May 15th, 2026 Edition

Lisa Frank, Inc. exploded from a 1980s college dorm-room jewelry and sticker venture in Tucson, Arizona, into a beloved 1990s empire of rainbow-colored Trapper Keepers, folders, and whimsical animal designs that defined a generation’s childhood nostalgia and generated up to $60+ million in annual revenue. Founded by artist Lisa Frank, the brand thrived under her … Continue reading Episode 508: The Dark Side of Lisa Frank

Tom and Jenny discuss Michael Mann’s stylish 1986 adaptation of Thomas Harris’s novel Red Dragon. It is the first appearance of the Hannibal Lecter character on screen (played by Brian Cox). Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Instagram. Also check … Continue reading Movie Time: Manhunter (1986)

Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Instagram. Also check out Jenny’s horror channel, The Scare Salon, and her true crime channel, Crime Immemorial. Check out Fright On Cue, a cool horror writing journal with image and text prompts. Please try out TubeBuddy! And … Continue reading Sidetracks LIVE: Friday, May 8th, 2026 Edition

The Murdaugh family built a powerful legal dynasty in South Carolina’s Lowcountry, with three generations serving as solicitors and running a prominent personal injury firm for nearly a century. Alex Murdaugh, the fourth-generation lawyer, lived a double life of opioid addiction and massive financial crimes, embezzling millions from clients and the firm while his son … Continue reading Episode 507: Family Killer Alex Murdaugh and the Murdaugh Family Saga

Tom and Jenny discuss a 2012 supernatural horror film from the UK, loosely based on the Black Monk of Pontefract poltergeist case. Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Instagram. Also check out Jenny’s horror channel, The Scare Salon, and her true … Continue reading Movie Time: When the Lights Went Out (2012)

Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Instagram. Also check out Jenny’s horror channel, The Scare Salon, and her true crime channel, Crime Immemorial. Check out Fright On Cue, a cool horror writing journal with image and text prompts. Please try out TubeBuddy! And … Continue reading Sidetracks LIVE: Friday, May 1st, 2026 Edition

Gwen Shamblin Lara was a prominent American diet guru and religious leader who founded the Weigh Down Workshop in the 1980s, a wildly popular faith-based weight-loss program that taught participants to rely on God rather than calorie counting to overcome overeating, reaching hundreds of thousands worldwide through books, videos, and church classes. In 1999 she … Continue reading Episode 506: Gwen Shamblin Lara: Diet Guru and Christian Cult Leader

Tom and Jenny discuss David Ayer’s epic World War II film from 2014, which stars Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Peña, and Jon Bernthal as an American tank crew in Nazi Germany. Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us … Continue reading Movie Time: Fury (2014)

Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Instagram. Also check out Jenny’s horror channel, The Scare Salon, and her true crime channel, Crime Immemorial. Check out Fright On Cue, a cool horror writing journal with image and text prompts. Please try out TubeBuddy! And … Continue reading Sidetracks LIVE: Friday, April 24th, 2026 Edition

Colin Pitchfork is a British child murderer and rapist born on March 23, 1960, who became infamous as the first person in the world convicted of rape and murder using DNA profiling. A baker from Leicestershire, England, he raped and strangled two 15-year-old girls—Lynda Mann in Narborough in November 1983 and Dawn Ashworth in Enderby … Continue reading Episode 505: Child Killer Colin Pitchfork – First Killer Caught with DNA

Tom and Jenny discuss Jess Franco’s historical exploitation drama, starring Christopher Lee as notorious 17th-century English judge George Jeffreys, known as The Hanging Judge. Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Instagram. Also check out Jenny’s horror channel, The Scare Salon, and … Continue reading Movie Time: The Bloody Judge (1970)

Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Instagram. Also check out Jenny’s horror channel, The Scare Salon, and her true crime channel, Crime Immemorial. Check out Fright On Cue, a cool horror writing journal with image and text prompts. Please try out TubeBuddy! And … Continue reading Sidetracks LIVE: Friday, April 17th, 2026 Edition

On the night of June 11, 1962, three inmates—Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin—pulled off one of the most daring and ingenious prison escapes in American history from the supposedly escape-proof Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. After months of secret preparation using stolen spoons, a homemade drill, and over 50 raincoats fashioned into a raft, … Continue reading Episode 504: Escape from Alcatraz

Tom and Jenny discuss Nicolas Winding Refn’s 2011 neo-noir action thriller, which stars Ryan Gosling as an unnamed Hollywood stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver for criminals. Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Instagram. Also check out Jenny’s … Continue reading Movie Time: Drive (2011)

Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Instagram. Also check out Jenny’s horror channel, The Scare Salon, and her true crime channel, Crime Immemorial. Check out Fright On Cue, a cool horror writing journal with image and text prompts. Please try out TubeBuddy! And … Continue reading Sidetracks LIVE: Friday, April 10th, 2026 Edition

Connie Converse, born Elizabeth Eaton Converse in 1924 in New Hampshire, was a pioneering American singer-songwriter who created intimate, literate folk and art songs in 1950s New York City years before the commercial singer-songwriter era. A gifted polymath who dropped out of Mount Holyoke College to pursue writing and music, she recorded dozens of original … Continue reading Episode 503: Disappearing Folk Singer Connie Converse

Tom and Jenny discuss William Friedkin’s stylish neo-noir action thriller, in which a pair of Secret Service agents do some pretty shady things to catch a counterfeiter and killer. Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Instagram. Also check out Jenny’s … Continue reading Movie Time: To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)

Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Instagram. Also check out Jenny’s horror channel, The Scare Salon, and her true crime channel, Crime Immemorial. Check out Fright On Cue, a cool horror writing journal with image and text prompts. Please try out TubeBuddy! And … Continue reading Sidetracks LIVE: Friday, April 3rd, 2026 Edition

On November 10, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, a legendary 729-foot Great Lakes ore carrier known as the “Mighty Fitz,” tragically sank in a violent storm on Lake Superior, claiming the lives of all 29 crew members in one of the most infamous maritime disasters in American history. Carrying over 26,000 tons of taconite pellets … Continue reading Episode 502: The Wreck of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald

Tom and Jenny discuss Harmony Korine’s stylized 2012 crime film, which stars James Franco, Selena Gomez, and Vanessa Hudgens. Thanks to Gramthars Hammer for gifting us the movie! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Instagram. Also check out Jenny’s horror … Continue reading Movie Time: Spring Breakers (2012)

Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Instagram. Also check out Jenny’s horror channel, The Scare Salon, and her true crime channel, Crime Immemorial. Check out Fright On Cue, a cool horror writing journal with image and text prompts. Please try out TubeBuddy! And … Continue reading Sidetracks LIVE: Friday, March 27th, 2026 Edition

Johnny Carson (1925–2005) was an iconic American television host, comedian, and writer, widely regarded as the “King of Late Night.” Born in Corning, Iowa, and raised in Nebraska, he served in the Navy during World War II before launching his career in radio and early television. After stints as a writer for Red Skelton and … Continue reading Episode 501: Johnny Carson – King of Late Night Television

Tom and Jenny discuss Sean Baker’s critically acclaimed 2017 slice of life drama about a six-year-old girl who lives with her unemployed single mother in a budget motel in Kissimmee, Florida. Thanks to Gramthars Hammer for treating us to the movie! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube … Continue reading Movie Time: The Florida Project (2017)

Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Instagram. Also check out Jenny’s horror channel, The Scare Salon, and her true crime channel, Crime Immemorial. Check out Fright On Cue, a cool horror writing journal with image and text prompts. Please try out TubeBuddy! And … Continue reading Sidetracks LIVE: Friday, March 20th, 2026 Edition

In August 1972, John Wojtowicz, a Vietnam War veteran and openly gay man living in Brooklyn, orchestrated a botched bank robbery at a Chase Manhattan branch in Gravesend to raise money for his transgender partner Elizabeth Eden’s (formerly Ernest Aron) gender-affirming surgery. Accompanied by accomplices Salvatore Naturile and Robert Westenberg (who fled early), the heist … Continue reading Episode 500: Bank Robber John Wojtowicz – Dog Day Afternoon

Tom and Jenny discuss the 2026 action scifi film, a Netflix original starring Alan Ritchson as an Army Ranger recruit who encounters a strange, deadly machine during an exercise. Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Instagram. Also check out Jenny’s … Continue reading Movie Time: War Machine (2026)