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Happy Halloween, and welcome to a very spooky episode of Let\u2019s Go To Court! This week, we discuss crimes so terrifying that they inspired horror films.

Kristin starts us off with the most disgusting story of all time. Ed Gein was just a quiet bachelor who lived alone on his isolated Wisconsin farm. But there was more to Ed than met the eye. When police went to question him about a murder, they were horrified by what they discovered. Body parts littered his filthy home. There were lamp shades and chairs made of human skin. There was a collection of noses, and face masks on the walls. Ed\u2019s story is so sickening that it inspired the movies Psycho, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs.

Then Brandi tells us about an entire family who was killed in their sleep. Well\u2026 not an entire family. One family member, Ronald DeFeo, lived to tell the tale. A year later, a new family moved into the home. The disturbing story was the basis for the Amityville Horror movies. Brandi recommends the 2005 Amityville Horror remake, starring Ryan Reynolds. She\u2019s a fan of his muscle definition. And his acting.

And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.

In this episode, Kristin pulled from:
\n\n\u201cEd Gein,\u201d episode of A&E\u2019s biography
\n\n\u201cEd Gein Biography,\u201d Wisconsinsickness.com
\n\n\u201cThe Ultimate Ghoul,\u201d Crime Library
\n\n\u201c10 skulls found in house of horror,\u201d Oshkosh Daily Northwestern
\n\n\u201cJudge orders Ed Gein back to mental hospital,\u201d The La Crosse Tribune
\n\n\u201cOrder Ed Gein tried on murder, robbery,\u201d The Oshkosh Northwestern
\n\n\u201cEd Gein found guilty of murder,\u201d Ironwood Daily Globe
\n\n\u201cEd Gein,\u201d Wikipedia

In this episode, Brandi pulled from:
\n\n\u201cThe Real Life Amityville Horror\u201d by Douglas B Lynott, Cirme Library
\n\n\u201cCouple and 4 children killed in \u2018Amityville Horror\u2019 murders\u201d by Jerry Schmetterer and Daniel Driscoll\xa0Ronald Defeo Jr.
\n\n\u201cThe Amityville Horror\u201d wikipedia.org
\n\nAmityvilleFiles.com