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Sep 2020
1h 21m

#15- The REAL Silence of the Lambs Kille...

STEPHANIE SOO
About this episode
We've seen the movies Silence of the Lambs + Texas Chainsaw Massacre and went to bed thinking "at least it's just a movie." But what if it wasn't? What if the person the movies were inspired by was darker, more sinister, and scarier than the movies themselves?  This is the real life story those movies are inspired by. He wears dead people's skin. Seriously. 
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