Killer Soundtrack
Runs the needle over a playlist inspired by true crimes that cut close to the bone.
Evil Empire
The Manson Family are responsible for terrifying Hollywood after a series of brutal murders that targeted celebrities, including pregnant actress Sharon Tate.
Deadly Consequences
Award-winning music producer Phil Spector is responsible for some of the most successful albums in music history.
Milwaukee Horror Show
Jeffrey Dahmer is one of the most notorious serial killers of all time.
Evil Encounter
Sophie Lancaster was beaten to death because she dressed like a Goth and listened to metal and punk music.
A Vicious Murder?
Punk icon, and Sex Pistols bass-guitarist, Sid Vicious and girlfriend Nancy Spungen were tragic romantics locked in a mutually abusive relationship that always seemed destined to end in tragedy.
War Ensemble
Amongst the violence, torture and genocide of the Holocaust, stories of hope and survival also emerged after the horrors of World War II.
Dark Hollywood
The Hillside Stranglers were a pair of violent cousins who murdered women and left their bodies in the Hollywood Hills.
Factor X
Musicians who write about crime are often accused of condoning, even glorifying, criminal activity.
City Under Siege
When a jury acquitted four Los Angeles police officers of using excessive force during Rodney King’s arrest, a mass protest against police brutality, injustice and racial discrimination ensued and quickly turned into a riot.
Beautiful World?
Four unarmed students were shot and killed, and another nine wounded, by members of the Ohio National Guard at a peace rally held at Kent State University on May 4, 1970.
Under a Darkened Veil
Sixteen-year-old Brenda Spencer began shooting at children from her house to the Cleveland Elementary School, San Diego, with a semi-automatic rifle her father had given to her as a Christmas present.
The Killing Fields
In the 1960s in England, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley preyed upon children in the Manchester area and buried their bodies at Saddleworth Moor.
Myth, or Murder
Infamous mobster Al Capone lived a life of crime, and yet he has become part of popular culture and inspired numerous art forms.
