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Even if you don’t recognize Ed Gein’s name, you’re probably familiar with aspects of his story. After all, his crimes were the inspiration for some of the most iconic horror movie characters of all time, like Norman Bates from Psycho, Leatherface from Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Buffalo Bill from The …

Tales of alcohol- and drug-fueled-debauchery are as common in music as playing guitar, whether it be onstage antics (Jim Morrison, Ozzy), the trashing of a hotel room (Rolling Stones, Rick James, Sid Vicious, countless others), or a “lost weekend” in the case of John Lennon. Many of these real-life experiences …

Jane Goodall, the celebrated primatologist and conservationist best known for her work studying the behavior of chimpanzees, died Wednesday, Oct. 1. She was 91. The Jane Goodall Institute confirmed Goodall’s death in a statement. The organization said she died from “natural causes” while in California on a speaking tour. “Dr. …

Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan know what first draws people into their podcast: shock value. Before the two Oklahoma mothers were hosts of the hit series I’ve Had It, they were stars on the short lived Bravo reality television series Sweet Home Oklahoma and Sweet Home — which followed …

Hollywood has been trafficking in remakes for well over a century, swapping out casts and repackaging stories for each generation. This year, there was James Gunn’s Superman, which went back to the Golden Age well to kickstart a new DCU vision. There was also The Fantastic Four: First Steps, an …

Texas investigators have finally identified a suspect in the infamous killing of four teenage girls in 1991, known as the “Yogurt Shop Murders.” Newly discovered DNA evidence tied the grisly crime to Robert Eugene Brashers, a serial killer, who died by suicide during a stand-off with police in 1999. Officials …

That was the day the floodgates opened: the October morning in 2022 that I couldn’t hold it down anymore. I’d been up all night sweating my academic future, sweating the New York Yankees’ future; trying to sweat anything but my algebra exam, which was scheduled for second period the next …

The gunman who killed four people in an NYC office building in July had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), according to the New York City medical examiner’s office. The degenerative brain disease linked to repeated head injuries sustained in football and other contact sports can only be diagnosed posthumously. The gunman, …

Assata Shakur, the Black Liberationist convicted of killing a New Jersey state trooper, who was also Tupac Shakur’s godmother, has died, The New York Times reports. She was 78. Health officials in Cuba — where Shakur had lived since 1984 after escaping prison and being granted political asylum — confirmed …

A woman stands in the doorway of a burning building, the large brim of a hat obscuring her face, her yellow hakamashita dappled red with blood. Fire dances off the hilt of the katana in her hand. Death lies in her wake. “Onryō!” the villagers hiss as she mounts a …