A religious group known as the Branch Davidians lived in their compound they called Mt. Carmel just outside Waco, Texas. On April 19, 1993 agents of the United States government attacked their compound and murdered helpless women and children with battle tanks, flame-throwers, and poison gas....
‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ (1974) Courtesy Everett Collection Clueless cityslickers wander off the beaten path and learn the hard way that it’s a whole other country out there. Their teachers: a family of shitcanned slaughterhouse workers aiming their tools and grisly expertise at any inte...
According toThe Associated Press, the Texas Department of Public Safety says they recovered 72 dead bodies. May 2, 1993 Justice of the Peace David Pareya confirms that dental records and X-rays reveal that Koresh's dead body was discovered with a gunshot wound to the forehead,The Associated ...
After spending the month of October discussing Ed Gein and the various cinematic adaptations of his crimes, including The Silence of the Lambs, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (listen here) and House of 1000 Corpses (listen here), Jenn and I are now deep into cult...
Born on February 21, 1979, in Waco, Texas, Hewitt's career began when she was scouted at the tender age of 10. She moved to Los Angeles with her mother, where she commenced her journey into stardom. Her early years saw her in television commercials and Disney ...
April 18, 2013 – Fertilizer plant explosion, Texas – 5-15 killed (Notice that this event occurred almost exactly 20 years after the Waco Massacre, which is in the same area. Also, on April 16, 1947, a ship loaded with ammonium nitrate docked at the Port of Texas City and erupted in...
“P5ych centres on the postmodern conceit of five patients undergoing experimental treatment whose real-life experiences inspired horror staples such as Friday The 13th, Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and A Nightmare on Elm Street. When the former victims are made to confront their fears, the...
David Koresh, born Vernon Howell in 1959, was the leader of a Christian sect that would meet a violent and controversial end in Waco, Texas. After being expelled from the Seventh-Day Adventist Church as a young man (for telling the pastor he wanted to marry his 12-year-old daughter), ...
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Throughout his career, Aycock worked on some tough cases, but his toughest was initially elusive to pinpoint. “Which one?” he asks but eventually names the ones that bubble up. “The Luby’s Massacre [1991] in Killeen was one. The Branch Davidian conflict [Waco, 1993] was another one...