If - God forbid - you died unexpectedly, your loved ones might want a certain possession to remember you by, perhaps a piece of jewellery, your huge TV, or your collection of true crime books. Jeffrey Dahmer's mother wanted his BRAIN. Joyce Flint insisted that her eldest son's brain be donated to science in the hope that there would be some clues as to why he ended up a serial killer/cannibal/necrophile. He was bludgeoned to death by fellow prison inmate Christopher Scarver on 28 November 1994, but before his body was incinerated as per his final wishes, doctors opened his skull and took out ..read more

As There's Something In The Barn hits cinemas, we rate five other *incredible* Christmas horror movies you've probably never heard of... Irritating relatives, the Call The Midwife Christmas special, feigning pleasure at a shit gift - no matter what people tell you, the festive season really isn't a season of joy. But if you like your family, mediocre BBC dramas and can open any present and see its value on eBay, then you might need to balance out Christmas' sickly sweetness another way. Enter the Christmas horror movie. Last month Sinister Isles was invited to a special preview screening of Th ..read more

Is The Crime Through Time Museum worth the £9 entry fee? The news of Dave Courtney's passing earlier this week made me very sad. Why? Well, as far as I am concerned, his autobiographical trilogy, The Ride, Stop The Ride, and grand finale, Fuck The Ride, will one day will be regarded as historically important texts. They're basically the Magna Carta, but about 'roid raging bouncers duffing each other up, drug deals 'on the continent' gone awry, villains and their stashes of shooters and knuckledusters, and a glossary of the code of honour used by criminals both petty and professional. And, som ..read more

When I heard that Josef Fritzl had written an autobiography from his high security prison in Austria, I was desperate to read it. But could I remember enough of my high school German lessons to decipher the rantings, musings - and revelations? - of the man who imprisoned one of his daughters in a home-made dungeon, raped her an estimated 3,000 times and forced her to bear seven of his children, one of whom died and he incinerated in a log burner? Thankfully, I didn't have to rack my brains too much. Earlier this month an English translation of the book was released, meaning my German language ..read more

'What does that 21-year-old woman see in that rich old doctor?' Errr, how about nothing as she's dead and he's put glass eyes in her corpse to make it more sensual when he shags her? This isn't the world's worst joke, it's the horrifying true story of Carl Tanzler, a lovestruck medic who shacked up with one his young patients... years after she died. Age gap relationships can be icky at the best of times, but when a wrinkly old doctor is shagging a DEAD 21-year-old with a cardboard tube in her vagina, we are entering a whole new bracket of WTF. German-born doctor Carl Tanzler fell in love wit ..read more

David Koresh claimed that God promised to "give" him Madonna. The Branch Davidian leader, who died after a 51 day siege at the cult's HQ in Waco, Texas, is the subject of a new Netflix documentary - but there's a lot more weird trivia about the Jesus-loving guitarist not included on the show. According to LitHub, a former cult member revealed that Koresh was obsessed with Madonna - and even told his army of followers that God had promised her to him in a dream. The site quotes one of the cult members as recalling: "He also loved MTV, 'especially if Madonna was on,' [David] Thibodeau recalled ..read more

Have you ever pondered what your 'death row meal' would be? TBH if you're currently on this blog, which is basically about true crime and serial killers, the chances are that you have. I personally veer between wanting a padana from Pizza Express, or £100 worth of Greggs polished off with a big bottle of San Pellegrino and some of those sickly white chocolate Ferrero Rocher Raffaellos. A spread fit for a queen. As is standard practice, ,John Wayne Gacy was given the chance to choose his last meal before he was given the lethal injection on 10 May 1994. And he chose.... a bucket of KFC and chi ..read more

We're used to seeing Anthony Loffredo's ever-evolving face staring out at us from Instagram, but have you ever wondered what the ,Black Alien Project looked like before? Spoiler alert: He used to look pretty normal. Actually, he was really good looking. But then he tattooed himself head-to-toe, chopped his nose off, cut his top lip off, sliced his ears off, cut two of his fingers off, stuck a variety of dermal implants under his skin, split his tongue, filed his teeth in to sharp points and painted them blue, carved off slices of skin, inked his eyeballs black... his transformations come so t ..read more

@the_black_alien_project is back online. For nearly two months in October - December 2022 he was mysterious banned from the social media site. In October, Antony Loffredo revealed that his account had been randomly deactivated. The French body modifier, who now lives in Mexico, posted to his back-up account that he had lost access to all his previous content, and 1.3m followers. In an Instagram story he wrote that his verified account was suddenly removed, and he asked his followers to report it to the platform in the hope of getting it back. And it worked. The Black Alien Project is back! Wh ..read more

Netflix recently dropped its first true crime documentary of 2023, The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker. It focuses on a bizarre pocket of time in 2013 when a stoner hitchhiker - called Kai - went viral after he stopped a man who'd given him a lift from killing a woman. But where is Caleb Lawrence McGillvary now? For a few months in 2013 he was a minor celebrity in his own right... but in May that year, he murdered a man he claimed drugged and raped him. He was imprisoned and he remains incarcerated in NJ to this day. I personally don't remember when he hit the headlines, but I thoroughly enjoyed ..read more