Back to School month comes to a devastating conclusion with this disturbing exploration of a case that's been the butt of too many jokes and not enough explorations into the twisted manipulations employed by the seemingly gentle predator at its core. As Christopher and Eric serve up the documentary MARK KAY LETOURNEAU: NOTES ON A SCANDAL, they're whisked back to the 1990's when a school teacher's shocking (and criminal) sexual affair with an underage male student made headlines around the world....
Oct 08, 2023•56 min
It's a quiet night in a small Texas panhandle town when one of its most beloved high school students vanishes, leaving behind a threadbare trail of mystifying clues. Within hours of the discovery of Tom Brown's abandoned SUV, one of the most baffling unsolved true crime stories of a generation is born. What truly happened to this beloved high school senior who'd recently been cut from the football team and turned his attention to the theater in response? As Christopher and Eric serve up episode ...
Oct 01, 2023•57 min
Back to School Month continues as Christopher and Eric head to a posh New England prep school where secrecy and lies mask a legacy of abuse. But this tragedy extends far beyond the leafy borders of the seemingly idyllic campus of St. George's School, founded in the 19th Century to educate the offspring of the Gilded Age elite. A stunning expose in Vanity Fair magazine unveils the lengths administrators went to in order to protect the predators in their midst and the school's prestigious reputati...
Sep 24, 2023•51 min
Christopher and Eric kick off Back to School month, a quartet of episodes about the crimes endured by high school and college students as well as their loved ones. When Christian Aguilar begins his freshman year at the University of Florida in Gainesville, he's the first member of his family to attend college. But when he vanishes in the course of a single evening, his proud and devoted family vows they will stop at nothing to find the truth. As Christopher and Eric serve up DEATH IN THE DORMS e...
Sep 17, 2023•54 min
There are bad movies and then there are truly terrible movies. But do any of them ever star Robert Duvall? Find out as Christopher and Eric bring you the second episode in a true crime pairing about the mystery of D.B. Cooper and his still unsolved skyjacking of an American airliner. Your hosts thought THE PURSUIT OF D.B. COOPER might make for a fun and frothy end to their True Crime Movie Time Summer Film Festival. Instead, they struggled to stay in front of their televisions while it played. A...
Sep 10, 2023•1 hr
After so many episodes of bloodshed and mayhem, Christopher and Eric bring their True Crime movie Time Summer Film Festival in for a soft landing. Here your hosts bring you a true crime pairing about one of the most talked about, argued about, debated about, and speculated about unsolved mysteries in American history, the mystery of D.B. Cooper. On Thanksgiving Eve 1971, a man claiming to be D.C. Cooper used a ransom note and a fake bomb to skyjack a passenger plane and rob the airline of a tidy...
Sep 03, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Pacific Northwest Nightmares continues. Christopher and Eric offer a frank and strong view about a made-for-TV movie that attempts to draw a connection between two of the region's most notorious serial killers. Despite a sterling performance by Cary Elwes as Ted Bundy, your hosts find little to admire in THE RIVERMAN, but much to dissect about the its real life subjects. Is this the story of an arrogant detective’s naked determination to hijack one investigation under false pretenses so he can s...
Aug 27, 2023•55 min
Don your waterproof slicker and pull on those thigh high rain boots. It's time for the storm drenched final leg of Christopher and Eric's True Crime Movie Time Summer Film Festival, Pacific Northwest Nightmares. Gary Ridgway was a predator so prolific and diabolical he became a household name. Better known as the Green River Killer, his decades long reign of terror in Washington State revealed police missteps, political machinations and an urgent need to embrace the humanity of sex workers befor...
Aug 20, 2023•56 min
The Southern Sins portion of the True Crime Movie Time Summer Film Festival concludes with DEVIL'S KNOT, a screen adaptation of one the most widely publicized and divisive true crime cases in recent American history, the story of the West Memphis Three. But does this Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth big screen vehicle tell the story we came to hear? Your hosts Christopher and Eric have no shortage of opinions as fact meets fiction meets the constraint of a two hour studio film.
Aug 13, 2023•55 min
How have Christopher and Eric gone this long without discussing the Robin Hood Hill murders, the case that essentially gave birth to the modern day true crime genre? In this installment of Christopher & Eric's True Crime TV Club, they serve up THE WEST MEMPHIS THREE: AN ID MURDER MYSTERY, which encapsulates the dark saga of gruesome murder and rank injustice that divided a town and spawned several famous documentaries as well as a dramatic film adaptation. Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, Jessi...
Aug 06, 2023•57 min
Southern Sins continues with the second in a true crime pairing. This particular installment of True Crime Movie Time presents a searing and disturbing cinematic look at a South Florida murder steeped in sexual repression, abuse and addiction. No stranger to controversy, director Larry Clark made a name for himself chronicling the lives of America's troubled and disaffected youth. So it's no surprise he turned his attention to the dark and twisted tale of Bobby Kent and the Florida teens who dec...
Jul 30, 2023•52 min
Christopher and Eric kick off the Southern Sins portion of their True Crime Movie Time Summer Film Festival with this wrenching look at addiction and murder among a group of disaffected teens in the Sunshine State. Meet Bobby Kent, a popular and good looking weight lifter — and a bully so vicious his closest friends decided there was only one way to put an end to his abuse. This installment of True Crime TV Club serves up an old school episode of AMERICAN JUSTICE: Payback For A Bully, episode 5 ...
Jul 23, 2023•55 min
In their discussion of the 1973 film BADLANDS, Christopher and Eric wrestle with their own belief in artistic freedom while confronting a dramatized version of real life crimes that essentially rewrites history in its pursuit of artistic license. The directorial debut of American cinema icon Terence Malick changes the names to protect not just the innocent, but the guilty as well. While the movie claims to be inspired by the real life killing spree of Charles Starkweather and Carol Fugate (the r...
Jul 16, 2023•54 min
Midwest Mayhem departs the big and dirty city and heads to the bleak countryside for its second true crime pairing, the disturbing story of Charles Starkweather and Carol Fugate, two young killers whose gruesome crimes shocked a nation and inspired numerous film versions in the years that followed. In THE REAL 'NATURAL BORN KILLER', CHARLES STARKWEATHER (BORN TO KILL), available to stream on the Our Life You Tube Channel, we're given a by the numbers retelling of a horrifying killing spree that ...
Jul 09, 2023•54 min
Some days your hosts think this podcast should be retitled THIS IS NOT THE MOVIE WE REMEMBER. Such were the feelings of both Christopher and Eric when they revisited what many consider to be a classic mafia film. If by classic you mean shot through with the dangerously self-assured, vigilante ethos of the Reagan years and a penchant for absurdly wild spectacle that throws history out the window. The True Crime Movie Time Summer Film Festival brings you THE UNTOUCHABLES, a bafflingly popular shoo...
Jul 02, 2023•56 min
Christopher and Eric kick off the Midwest Mayhem portion of their True Crime Movie Time Summer Film Festival with an all new true crime pairing devoted to two of the most mythologized figures in the history of American organized crime. Thanks to its snarky European producers, the documentary ELIOT NESS VS. AL CAPONE offers vicious commentary about the so-called land of the free. (To our Chicago based Party People, we beg your forgiveness in advance. We don't write the documentaries, we just serv...
Jun 24, 2023•55 min
East Coast Carnage wraps up the second half of another true crime pairing as the True Crime Movie Time Summer Film Festival continues its exploration of the Son of Sam killings. Spike Lee is one of our most skillful and accomplished filmmakers. He's also no stranger to controversy. But does his film SUMMER OF SAM inspire the wrong controversy and for all the wrong reasons? Forget David Berkworitz or the investigation into his hideous murders. This film uses its all-star cast and extensive runnin...
Jun 18, 2023•54 min
East Coast Carnage heads to the Big Apple and the Five Boroughs as Christopher & Eric's True Crime Movie Time Summer Film Festival continues. For the first time, Christopher and Eric tackle one of the most notorious serial killer cases of all time, the Son of Sam killings, which terrified the New York area during the late 1970's. As they serve up this episode of WORLD'S MOST EVIL KILLERS: DAVID BERKOWITZ, your hosts question the killer's alleged insanity and his supposed adherence to Satanic...
Jun 11, 2023•56 min
East Coast Carnage continues on Christopher & Eric's True Crime Movie Time Summer Film Festival with the second in a true crime pairing about the Boston Marathon bombings. The Peter Berg directed film PATRIOT'S DAY offers some of the closest parallels between fact and fiction your hosts have encountered yet. But the film's glimpse behind the masks of the diabolical men responsible for this horrific act inspired Eric Shaw Quinn to do some additional research, prompting a probing discussion in...
Jun 04, 2023•52 min
East Coast Carnage, the next chapter in Christopher & Eric's True Crime Movie Time Summer Film Festival, kicks off with the Boston Marathon bombing, a horrific act of terrorism that's still fresh in many of our minds. Even though they thought they knew the story, Christopher and Eric were unprepared for the emotional impact of MARATHON: THE PATRIOT'S DAY BOMBING, streaming on the recently renamed Max. How do you move past a trauma when the evidence of it is literally written on your body? Th...
May 28, 2023•57 min
In the final episode of California Screaming month, we bring you an all new installment of Christopher & Eric's True Crime Movie Time. This time they're opening the vaults and blowing the dust off some ¾'' video cassettes — otherwise known as scrolling through pages on Paramount + — to serve up this creaky, sanitized and maybe-not-quite accurate TV movie, THE CASE OF THE HILLSIDE STRANGLERS. After the crash course in serial killer depravity offered by their previous episode on the notorious ...
May 21, 2023•52 min
A new "true crime pairing" in California Screaming month begins with this latest installment of Christopher & Eric's True Crime TV Club, serving up a two-part documentary special about the case that ushered in a new era of human depravity and horror in the City of Angels. In episodes 7 and 8 of season 4 of VERY SCARY PEOPLE: "The Hillside Stranglers Part 1 and 2", host Donnie Wahlberg channels his inner Blue Blood to bring us the tale of a terrifying, seemingly random murder spree that claim...
May 14, 2023•1 hr 1 min
California Screaming Month continues with the second in a true crime pairing devoted to a killer who has become more phantom than human, more conspiracy than evidence. When Christopher and Eric first watched David Fincher's ZODIAC years ago, they were both equally awed by its technical expertise and a laser-like focus on its subject matter. But how does it hold up against the blizzard of facts about the case they served up in their last episode? In the latest installment of Christopher & Eri...
May 07, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Christopher and Eric's cross country journey of murder and mayhem begins with California Screaming month, the first chapter in the True Crime Movie Time Summer Film Festival, a series of episodes devoted to "true crime pairings" featuring some of America's most notorious human predators. How have your hosts gone this long without covering the Zodiac killer (or killers, plural)? Perhaps it's the story's epic scope, packed as it with years of false leads and cryptic, terrifying letters sent to the...
Apr 30, 2023•59 min
In the final burst of April Showers Bring Van Gogh Flowers Month, Christopher and Eric embark on a dizzying international journey that begins with a swift and skillful break in at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, which your hosts visited only weeks before. (They're innocent. We promise!) In STEALING VAN GOGH: THE GREATEST ART HEIST OF THE 21st CENTURY on the Real Stories You Tube channel, art historian Andrew Graham Dixon takes a globe-trotting journey in search of two beloved Van Gogh painting...
Apr 23, 2023•52 min
April Showers Bring Van Gogh Flowers Month unleashes another storm as your hosts bring you an unusual selection for this "true crime pairing", AT ETERNITY'S GATE, an art house biopic of one of the world's greatest artists, whose works have been subjected to numerous allegations of fraud and instances of theft. Julian Schnabel might be a celebrated visual artist, but as a filmmaker, is he up to the task of capturing the soul of the late Vincent van Gogh? Christopher and Eric have strong opinions....
Apr 16, 2023•53 min
April showers bring Van Gogh flowers as Christopher and Eric celebrate their return from Europe with a twisty, international true crime tale involving the incredible artist they paid tribute to on their recent trip abroad. Vincent Van Gogh's life and career were short and marked by great mental challenges culminating in a tragic end. Today he's considered one of the greatest painters of all time. But allegations of forgery and fraud bedevil some of his most beloved works. In THE FAKE VAN GOGH PA...
Apr 09, 2023•57 min
You didn't think you could get rid of them that easily, did you? Christopher and Eric return from their European adventure full of their usual dazzling recollections and chesty complaints. After celebrating their birthdays overseas, your hosts serve up answers galore to all of the questions you posted about their trip on The Dinner Party Show's Facebook page. Which work of art most moved them? Which room service meal was the best? Where are they off to next? Find out as they kick off a month of ...
Apr 02, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Two years ago, Christopher and Eric used this podcast to bring much needed attention to the brutal homicide of a young gay man named William Arnold Newton, whose severed head and feet were found in a Hollywood dumpster in 1990. But when they went looking for local newspaper articles about Billy's gruesome and disturbing murder, the pickings were slim. Worse, there wasn't a word about the case to be found in LA's local paper of record, the Los Angeles Times. All that changed when out journalist K...
Mar 26, 2023•52 min
Two years ago, Christopher and Eric used this podcast to bring much needed attention to the brutal homicide of a young gay man named William Arnold Newton, whose severed head and feet were found in a Hollywood dumpster in 1990. Meanwhile, documentarian Rachel Mason's groundbreaking, Ryan Murphy-produced film, CIRCUS OF BOOKS, had helped humanize sex workers by offering a wry peek inside the ordinary lives of a family devoted to gay adult entertainment — her own. In the course of her research int...
Mar 19, 2023•58 min
