Christopher and Eric launch their Pride Month episodes with a True Crime TV Club dedicated to the slaying of a nightclub owner who helped found one of South Africa's most vibrant gay communities, serving up "Murder In Cape Town: Who Killed Bruno Bronn?" from the Real Stories You Tube Channel. When Bruno Bronn was found murdered by his housekeeper in 2012, his friends and co-workers were sent reeling. Meanwhile, the number one suspect strutted through town as if he didn't have a care in the world...
Jun 06, 2021•56 min
Join Christopher and Eric as they trek into the primeval redwood forests of Northern California in search of a monster. True Crime Special Edition is a super-sized True Crime TV Club that serves up an entire multi-episode series in a single podcast episode. Here, your hosts tackle the Hulu Original series "Sasquatch", in which an intrepid journalist enters a labyrinth of illegal marijuana growers, racism, memory and myth to determine if a mythological beast was responsible for a brutal triple ho...
May 30, 2021•56 min
Something tells us this isn't what they mean by "love, Italian style"! Or is it? Bone up on your fashion trivia before the Lady Gaga and Adam Driver film inspired by this true crime story hits screens. Patrizia Reggiani married her way into one of Italy's most prominent fashion families. But did she resort to murder to avoid being banished from the House of Gucci forever? Well, it all depends on who you ask, and Christopher and Eric were left to wonder who curated this cast of characters. We thi...
May 23, 2021•55 min
The jab. The shot. The way forward. Whatever you're calling it, the COVID-19 vaccines are opening up our world again. Christopher and Eric celebrate their own vaccinations by asking you, our beloved Party People, what you plan to do once you're fully vaccinated and free to go out in the world again. But more importantly, is it fully vaccinated or fully vested? It's been a long, dark year, and then some. Time to celebrate, #TDPS style! (This episode was recorded remotely during the COVID-19 pande...
May 16, 2021•55 min
The terrifyingly toxic relationship between teenager Gypsy Rose Blancharde and her mother-from-hell Dee Dee has been the fodder for countless true crime specials and even a limited television series featuring Hollywood stars. So what does one of the world's most successful thriller novelists have to say about it? Christopher and Eric serve up an episode of JAMES PATTERSON'S MURDER IS FOREVER entitled "Mother Of All Murders", Season 1, Episode 2. Will the author narrate? Will there be talking hea...
May 09, 2021•59 min
You remember where you were. You remember exactly what you were doing. Afterwards, your world seemed forever changed. A recent #TrueCrimeTVClub covering the 1994 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City inspired a discussion on our Facebook page about the news stories that changed and traumatized us. Christopher and Eric discuss your responses, as well as their own life altering moments, in this emotional discussion of what it means to lose some of our innocence as our eyes are su...
May 02, 2021•1 hr 1 min
Christopher and Eric's ongoing discussion of the brutal, 30-year old unsolved homicide of gay adult film actor William "Billy" Newton (aka Billy London) hasn't just drawn the attention of the LAPD homicide detective in charge of the case (see Episode 63), it's also stirred the interest of acclaimed documentarian Rachel Mason. Her beloved film CIRCUS OF BOOKS explored her childhood as the daughter of a seemingly conventional couple who also happened to own and manage one of the most successful ad...
Apr 25, 2021•1 hr 3 min
What do Albert Einstein, the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906 and the sleepy beach town of Santa Cruz, California have in common? Nothing. Unless you enter the mind of serial killer Herbert Mullin, who beat a path of terror through the backwoods of Northern California in the early 70's. For the first time, Christopher and Eric head to You Tube for this installment of #TrueCrimeTVClub, serving up an episode from the Real Crime You Tube channel, entitled "Was Herbert Mullin Born To Kill?". I...
Apr 18, 2021•55 min
We asked, you answered! On The Dinner Party Show's Facebook page, our #WednesdayQuestion is a chance for you to let your guard down with your hosts and fellow Party People. Recently, we presented all of you with the following query: "What's the most absurd and inaccurate piece of gossip anyone's ever told about you?" Your answers ranged from the hilarious to the heartbreaking. And naturally, Christopher and Eric had to add their own. Is it only gossip if it's not the truth? (This episode was rec...
Apr 11, 2021•58 min
In a possible #TrueCrimeTVClub first, Christopher and Eric serve up a holiday-set crime that isn't a family massacre. But the brutal murder of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl inside of a Toledo, Ohio church on Holy Saturday is no less disturbing. In THE LAKE EERIE MURDERS, Season 2, Episode 4, entitled "Black Sabbath", Christopher and Eric go on a Gothic journey into faith, sadism and the dark secrets that can hide behind the holiest walls. (This episode was recorded remotely during the COVID-19 pandem...
Apr 04, 2021•53 min
#TrueCrimeTVClub gets super-sized with this #TrueCrimeSpecialEdition delivering all three episodes in the new Dateline NBC series, THE WIDOWER. Sit back and strap yourselves in as Christopher and Eric take you on a cross-country, generation-hopping saga of murder and deception that asks the question: Is the most dangerous place for a woman on Thomas Randolph's arm? It's a tale so complex you might want to take notes. (Christopher didn't, and he paid the price.) And you thought black widows were ...
Mar 28, 2021•56 min
In the latest #TrueCrimeTVClub, Christopher and Eric honor March Madness the only way they know how, with a true crime tale that kinda, sorta has something to do with basketball. When a former college athlete turned model turned film executive goes missing, the result is a twisted tale of deception and drugs that's as LA as palm trees and sun. And so is this episode of THE PERFECT MURDER, Season 5, Episode 9, entitled "Jump Shot", which sets new a benchmark for reenactments in the true crime TV ...
Mar 21, 2021•58 min
Christopher and Eric take a break from dark tales and true crime so they can plot a dazzling escape from the world's troubles using the magic of Hollywood. What films and television shows have the power to transport us off our sofas during difficult times? Thanks to the recommendations you shared on The Dinner Party Show's Facebook page, your hosts travel from Scotland to Brooklyn to fantastical realms of legend, exploring the stories we return to again and again when we're in need of solace, in...
Mar 14, 2021•54 min
The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on 1995 is one of the worst acts of domestic terrorism ever carried out in the United States. But does AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: OKLAHOMA CITY offer up an origin story for bomber Timothy McVeigh that's supported by the facts? Christopher & Eric's #TrueCrimeTVClub tackles the question head on as the destructive consequences of anti-government hysteria and wild conspiracy theories play out in America's troubled history and contin...
Mar 07, 2021•54 min
The latest #TrueCrimeTVClub honors Black History Month by serving up HATRED IN AMERICA: THE KLAN ON TRIAL, Season 1, Episode 1, entitled "The Klan on Trial". Christopher and Eric follow journalist Tony Harris through an engrossing and impassioned tour of the court cases that formed the Southern Poverty Law Center and their efforts to combat the spread of virulent racism throughout the United States. When a young Alabama Black man is brutally murdered in 1981, the ensuing court cases write the pl...
Feb 28, 2021•53 min
Christopher and Eric saluted Valentine's Day with an episode devoted to a serial killer, which pretty much sums up how they feel about the holiday. Now they're back to discuss the topics that supposedly, along with his martyrdom and decapitation, earned St. Valentine his own special spot on the calendar,. (But rest assured, there's no actual discussion of St. Valentine.) What's the most romantic thing anyone's ever done for them? What is romance in general? Does love mean always having to say yo...
Feb 21, 2021•56 min
We were just looking for a True Crime TV Club offering darkly suited to Valentine’s Day. What we got was an episode of 20/20 so densely packed with murder, depravity and institutional incompetence you might want to take notes. Or you can just rely on the ones Christopher and Eric have taken for you as they serve up 20/20, Episode 9, Season 43, "The Dating Game Killer". Join your hosts for a terrifying ride that hops counties, cities and coasts as a handsome psychopath uses the free love movement...
Feb 14, 2021•57 min
Over the course of several months, Christopher and Eric have been examining the gruesome, unsolved homicide of a young gay man named William Newton, who performed in adult films as Billy London. Now their work has garnered the attention of law enforcement. In their first ever interview for this podcast, Christopher and Eric talk with Detective John Lamberti of LAPD Homicide, who inherited Newton's open case thirty years after his murder. The thoughtful investigator sheds new light on many of the...
Feb 07, 2021•59 min
A box office bomb at the theater, THE FROZEN GROUND rocketed to Netflix's Top 10 when it landed on the streamer in 2020. Starring Nicolas Cage, John Cusak and former Disney star Vanessa Hudgens, this cinematic depiction of notorious Alaskan serial killer Robert Hansen, who hunted women for sport, was based on the true crimes covered in Episode 61, the most recent installment of Christopher & Eric's True Crime TV Club. Armed with the facts, Christopher and Eric compare truth to cinematic lice...
Jan 31, 2021•56 min
Christopher and Eric take a twisted walk across the frozen trails of the Alaskan backwoods as they follow the crimes of real life serial killer Robert Hansen, who hunted women for sport. In the latest installment of Christopher & Eric's True Crime TV Club, your hosts try something a little different. By serving up ICE COLD KILLERS, Season 1, Episode 1, entitled "Hunting Humans", they'll visit the real story behind the feature film they intend to screen in the next episode of the podcast. Ala...
Jan 24, 2021•49 min
In Episode 48, Christopher and Eric marked the grim anniversary of their very own "hometown murder", the gruesome slaying of William Arnold Newton, a young gay West Hollywood man and adult film actor. Thirty years later, the crime remains unsolved. Your e-mails and feedback since their last episode have allowed Christopher and Eric to take an even deeper dive into the case, resulting in startling new developments. With the help of newly obtained official and verified sources, your hosts trace Bi...
Jan 17, 2021•52 min
In this emotional edition of Christopher and Eric's True Crime TV Club, your hosts serve up the first true crime stories that disturbed them when they were young. For Eric, it's the murder of Kitty Genovese, a notorious tale of alleged urban apathy that smeared an entire city. But is anything you've heard about it actually true? Eric was stunned by the revelations within A CRIME TO REMEMBER, Season 2, Episode 1, entitled "38 Witnesses". For Christopher, it's the disappearance of 10-year-old Kevi...
Jan 10, 2021•1 hr 2 min
What is it with the holidays and gruesome spree killers? Christopher and Eric return to the true crime series HOMICIDE FOR THE HOLIDAYS and serve up Season 2, Episode 8, "Bloody New Year's". When beloved Cindy Luu is murdered in front of her children on New Year's Eve, it kicks off a shocking crime wave and the Edmonton Police Service are drawn into a breathless hunt for answers. Is it gang violence, racially motivated hate or a twisted form of revenge? The death toll is staggering before the ni...
Jan 03, 2021•56 min
Christopher and Eric shine a light on their favorite bright spots in a very dark year, serving up their picks for the most helpful, therapeutic and diverting highlights of 2020, the year of the pandemic. The result is a sumptuous buffet of entertainment options, exercise aids and self-care apps we're sure you'll enjoy. None of these are paid endorsements. Christopher and Eric are way too bitchy for that. (And nobody's offered them enough money yet.) Your hosts also weigh in on the recent HBO tru...
Dec 27, 2020•59 min
It wouldn't be the holidays if Christopher and Eric weren't talking about the hideous antics of a psychopath who destroys everything he touches. And that's the perfect description of TDPS special correspondent Jordan Ampersand, who makes a surprise appearance to smear his own noxious brand of holiday cheer all over this episode. And then, of course, there's the real-life psychopath in a Santa suit who turns the Christmas holidays into an excuse to terrorize Southern California in this disturbing...
Dec 20, 2020•1 hr
Christopher and Eric have served up true crime TV specials galore. Now it's time to unleash their sharp and silver tongues on a bigger screen in this new series devoted to breaking down feature films inspired by real life true crime dramas. The savage murder of a gay porn producer Bryan Kocis and its possible connection to an ongoing legal dispute with "twink" porn sensation Brent Corrigan made headlines in 2007. It also inspired a movie in which a former Disney star had tons of gay sex. But is ...
Dec 13, 2020•55 min
There's very little diva Wendy Williams can't pull off, but how good is she at narrating a true crime series? Christopher and Eric are determined to find out as they serve up Episode 3 of Season 1 of DEATH BY GOSSIP, entitled "Her Last Christmas", in which the radio and TV star takes us to Jacksonville, Florida where a Christmas gift from the devil unleashes holy hell during the holiday season. Along the way, we're introduced to judgy neighbors with better front yards than yours and a swingers c...
Dec 06, 2020•54 min
Assuming it wasn't this one, Christopher and Eric asked you, the Party People, to share your recollections of the best Thanksgiving ever, and the result was a rousing discussion that gives us hope we can weather the strangest of all holiday seasons together. (This episode was recorded remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, which might explain slight variations in sound quality.)
Nov 29, 2020•55 min
Thanksgiving is the bloodiest time of the year. And not just for turkeys. In their first ever double stuffed, special edition of Christopher & Eric's True Crime TV Club, your hosts bring you not one, but two true crime specials in one. Eric heads to the town of Jupiter, Florida where he serves up a shocking family massacre in Episode 1 of Season 1 of HOMICIDE FOR THE HOLIDAYS, "A Deadly Thanksgiving", and Christopher travels to northern Washington State where he serves up a hippie-turned-hol...
Nov 22, 2020•58 min
Christopher and Eric reached out to you, the Party People, on The Dinner Party Show's Facebook page to find out how you're handling the holidays during this year without compare. Are you gathering around a socially distanced Thanksgiving table? Sanitizing your Christmas presents for forty-eight hours before opening? Hanging masks from the tree in the living room? Your answers were enlightening and they inspired a conversation about resilience and acceptance during difficult times. (This episode ...
Nov 15, 2020•55 min
