You know the movie When a Stranger Calls? The one about the babysitter who receives a creepy phone call, and the call is coming from inside the house? Well, it was LOOSELY, based on a true story. There have been countless stories, and probably even more film depictions of a teenage girl hired to babysit, and after the children have been put to bed, the babysitter is alone, watching a movie, doing homework, on the phone with a boyfriend, whatever.
Then the phone rings, the caller asks, something along the lines of “have you checked on the children lately”, the babysitter is scared. She locks the door, turns on the light to see if anyone is there, nothing. She eventually calls the police and once the call is traced, she's told the call is coming from inside the house. None of that happened in this story, but somehow this is the source of the urban legend of the babysitter. This is the story of Janett Christman.
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Sources:
https://thoughtcatalog.com/christine-stockton/2021/07/the-call-is-coming-from-inside-the-house-horror-trope-is-based-on-a-sady-true-story/
https://medium.com/omgfacts/the-truth-behind-the-babysitter-the-man-upstairs-urban-legend-d41d1722c9e9
https://www.columbiatribune.com/story/news/politics/government/2010/03/07/who-killed-janett-christman/984978007/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/52836495/janett-christman/photo
https://cindyparmiter.substack.com/p/a-babysitters-worst-nightmare-the
https://truecrimearticles.wordpress.com/2018/03/30/the-unsolved-murder-of-janett-christman/
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#287 Sinister Sister
Claire Miller was just 14 years old when she murdered her older sister (just 19) who suffered from cerebral palsy, while she slept! Claire, was a rising TikTok star who may have suffered a mental break that led to her killing her sister, or she could have been obsessed with violence all along.
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Sources:
https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/claire-miller-pleads-guilty-but-mentally-ill-in-sisters-stabbing-death-update/article_b7e3f45e-bea4-11ed-ae5f-ff4dc9d21719.html
https://www.fox43.com/article/news/crime/claire-miller-sentencing-guilty-plea-homicide-helen-miller/521-51fa4e94-3892-4ab7-9764-b15faf68ae11
https://allthatsinteresting.com/claire-miller
https://dailyvoice.com/pennsylvania/lancaster/news/pa-tiktoker-who-admitted-to-killing-her-wheelchair-bound-sister-learns-her-fate-da/858650/
https://nypost.com/2022/07/01/pennsylvania-girl-claire-miller-wouldve-killed-sooner-if-it-meant-mcdonalds-breakfast/
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Surgery PTSD, Denmark's Unwanted Pet Solution, Air Brushed Henry Rollins and the most French crime ever: Headlines 31
A man wakes up from being brain dead while having his organs harvested. Denmark has a unique way of controlling their pet population, and a man who looks like an overly tattooed Henry Rollins, is upset because porn facial recognition thinks he's wearing a mask. Oh and the most French crime ever, and a story that hits a little too close to home.
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#286 Daddy's Favorite
As many of us know, Lizzie Borden was an American woman acquitted of the axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts in 1892. But nearly 50 years earlier there was another Ax murder, even more horrendous that took place in the Appalachian Mountains. Overton County Tennessee, to be exact, was the scene of a horrific crime in September 1846.This is the true story of Patsey Troxdale.
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#285 With Friends Like These
Jason Sweeney was a 16 year old from the Fishtown area of Philadelphia Pennsylvania who was brutally setup and murdered by his “girlfriend”, Justina Morely, and his friends, Edward Batzig, Dominec Coia, and Nicholas Coia.
*Warning violence against children and violent children”
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Intro Song: Fishtown by True Crime Guys (soon to be released on spotify)
Lyrics:
Verse 1
He was on his way to meet her
He didn’t know what to say
He wasn’t gonna mess this up
He just got paid
She was on her way to meet him
She knew just what to say
This wasn’t her first rodeo
And he just got paid.
Chorus:
With Friends like these
Its like placing bets
Welcome to Fishtown
Don’t get caught in the nets
With friends like these
You don’t get what you see
There’s sharks in Fishtown
They just look like teen(s)(agers)
Verse 2:
They stalked him in the shadows
It had to be today
Just before the drugs wear off
Their conscience fades away
And everything that’s left
Is sure to find a way
To make this feeling last
Just one more day
Sources:
Show - CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, "Coming of Rage" (S4E10)
Graphic Novel - Kevin Colden's wrote Fishtown, a 2008 graphic novel which was nominated for an Eisner Award, this dude writes graphic novels in a comic styling to tell you about crime cases
DocuSeries - Lifetime series called Killer Kids, "Foul Ball and Framed" detailed the murder, including actual footage from the crime scene, in the second segment of the episode called "Framed" from 2012
DocuSeries - Murder Among Friends, '"Friend Fatale," from 2016
News Article - Chicago Tribune
News Article - TulsaWorld
Video - Court Hearings & Trials
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