14 Real Crimes Straight Out Of A Horror Movie
![14 Real Crimes Straight Out Of A Horror Movie](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/4/3/752543_320x180.jpg?v=2)
It’s nice being able to just hang out on your couch (pants optional) and watch scary movies about creepy killers or psycho lovers, knowing that you’re safe and sound while the outside world goes mad. Because sometimes, it really does go mad out there. Like daily if you're paying attention to such things, which we don't recommend but understand if you do. There's a certain allure, to be sure - why else would the true crime podcasting business be spitting out a new podcast every hour on the hour? It's because they can, unfortunately. The world is a fountain of good - that's a fact - but it is also a fountain of something else - something sinister and disturbing. And that's what this is. A drop in that fountain. Sometimes, when you're really surveying that fountain, you hear stories like these, which make horror movie producers recoil in fear:
![Vistula river, Poland - The woman who went missing and ended up as a skin suit - Polish student Katarzyna Zowada went missing in 1998. Two months late](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/6/0/752560.jpg?v=2)
![Tampa, Florida - The school teacher who tortured teens by demanding they cleanse themselves from demons - Danielle Harkins gathered the kids around a](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/5/8/752558.jpg?v=2)
![South Africa - The Krugersdorp Cult Killings - A group of individuals, with Cecile Steyn at the helm, murdered 11 people between 2012 and 2016. They c](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/5/7/752557.jpg?v=2)
![Villa La Mas, Costa Rica - The Airbnb murder - Reviews of this Airbnb rental called it “scary” and “a nightmare,” but Carla Stefaniak decided to stay](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/5/6/752556.jpg?v=2)
![Bethesda, Maryland - The Lululemon Murder, or Murder in a Luxury Yoga Store - In March of 2011, two employees were found inside the Lululemon Athletic](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/5/4/752554.jpg?v=2)
![Chestnut Ridge, New York - The blogger who killed her son and blogged about it - Lacey Spears slowly poisoned her kid with salt, and blogged about hi](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/5/3/752553.jpg?v=2)
![West Midlands, England - The Eriksson twins and a suspected shared psychosis -Swedish twins Sabina and Ursula Eriksson were visiting the UK in 2008 wh](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/5/2/752552.jpg?v=2)
![Pocatello, Idaho - The girl who was murdered by her classmates, Scream-style - Cassie Jo Stoddart was house-sitting when her boyfriend and two of his](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/5/1/752551.jpg?v=2)
![Somewhere in Minnesota - The young man who just disappeared - Brandon Swanson (19) was driving home one night when he accidentally drove into a ditch.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/5/0/752550.jpg?v=2)
![Springville, Utah - The family who wiped themselves out - Benjamin and Kristi Strack were the parents of four, and they struggled with serious mental](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/4/9/752549.jpg?v=2)
![Adelaide, Australia - The Snowtown Murders - In 1999, acid barrels were found in a bank vault containing the remains of eight people. Three men were e](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/4/8/752548.jpg?v=2)
![Thailand - The British man who got caught smuggling roasted fetuses wrapped in gold leaf - Uh, quite the sentence there. When the man was arrested he](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/4/7/752547.jpg?v=2)
![Warrington, England - The couple who trafficked people and kept them as slaves - A couple in their thirties were caught luring two separate Luthuanian](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/4/6/752546.jpg?v=2)
![Speedway, Indiana - The Burger Chef murders - One of the strangest cases in the US, the murders of four young employees of the restaurant chain back i](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/4/5/752545.jpg?v=2)