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Christopher and Eric kick off Pride Month with a much anticipated return visit from their very own citizen detective, Clark Williams, the man who solved the Billy Newton murder. This time Clark sits down at our table to share the work he’s been doing on an eerily similar case brought to him by one of our beloved Party People. In June of 1994, 28-year-old Paul Quintanilla was discovered in an empty field within sight of the Dallas Cowboys training facility in Irving, Texas, hours after leaving a popular Dallas gay bar. His hideous wounds suggested a crime driven by hate and rage. Our conversation with Clark is a searing history lesson in the dangers queer men faced throughout Texas during the 1990’s and beyond.
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Rain drops on roses and 2024 is almost half over. We will have no whiskers on kittens, but Christopher and Eric do have plenty of opinions about the pop culture highlights from the first part of the year – not a big surprise. More importantly, will their current crop of favorites still be in their top spots by the time 2025 rolls around? Even more importantly, will Christopher and Eric even remember they promised you they’d answer this question come December? Doubtful, but stay tuned. In the meantime, we’re left to wonder if Christopher will enjoy more than just the pricey pilot episode of a certain much ballyhooed new FX drama and if Eric will manage to watch anything that doesn’t include a murder mystery being solved in a British garden with a side of tea.
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In the final chapter of Couples From Hell Month, Christopher and Eric take a trip to Paduka, Kentucky by way of Tampa, Florida thanks to a devious, underhanded and murderous, lonely hearts con artist who cruelly plots his way into a good woman’s heart with the help of his long lost “illegitimate stepson”. While they’re all about diversity and inclusion, your out and proud hosts see little to celebrate about the fact that Charles Chumbler and Michael Kariakis are one of the few same sex couples covered in the Oxygen series KILLER COUPLES. As they serve up episode 3 of season 17, entitled – you guessed it “Charles Chumbler and Michael Kariakis” – the legal system presents them with a morally ambiguous twist that tests the definition of bias, and Christopher and Eric’s tolerance for fairness in the eyes of the law. Keep your ears open for Eric’s NSFW litmus test for homophobic judicial misconduct!
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Couples From Hell Month continues with Christopher and Eric’s outraged final serving of the last two episodes of KEN & BARBIE KILLERS: THE LOST MURDER TAPES on Max. Canada’s most hideous murder case turns into Canada’s trial of the century. (Don’t just take our word for it, check out the comments from our Canadian Party People!) The resulting media melee raises questions about the nation’s legal system in the process — questions that raise Christopher and Eric’s blood pressure as well. Just when you thought this story couldn’t get any worse, we’re greeted by a legal legerdemain from hell, evidence so distressing it sends spectators fleeing from the court room and obstruction of justice of the lowest and most pernicious sort. Eric rounds out the fiery discussion with an interrogation of everything that wasn’t covered in this otherwise exhaustive series. (Spoiler alert: Which wolves raised Paul Bernardo?)
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It’s May. Here at TDPS, wedding bells are ringing and true crime victims are screaming. To pay their own special homage to this season of renewals and nuptials, your bitter old hosts Christopher and Eric kick off our exploration of Couples From Hell Month with Part 1 of a True Crime TV Club installment serving up KEN & BARBIE KILLERS: THE LOST MURDER TAPES on Max. Our tale of marriage and mayhem begins in the Toronto area in the early 90’s, where a sexual predator is stalking one of its most peaceful suburbs. As the evil spreads, the trail of clues leads to the doorstep of a charismatic and attractive young couple, Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka. Is this a story of domestic abuse spiraling out of control? Or is there evil beyond imagining behind closed doors? Christopher and Eric’s discussion of episodes 1 and 2 ends with a shocking cliffhanger in this tangled investigation. In our next episode, they serve up the stunning conclusion of what many still describe as Canada’s trial of the century.
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In which Christopher and Eric try to put Spring Broke back together again. Your hosts discuss the lighter side of the raucous, drunken, licentious holiday that occupies the worst nightmares of most parents. And it’s all thanks to you our beloved Party People. We asked you to share your warmest Spring Break memories on The Dinner Party Show’s Facebook page, and the result was a nostalgic discussion of coming of age, coming out and how we define family and home.
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The only thing a true crime aficionado loves more than justice is when beloved Dateline host Keith Morrison calls BS on a lying criminal. To their face! You’ll get plenty of the later and some of the former in this Spring Broke installment of Christopher and Eric’s True Crime TV Club. Keith even asks the FBI some hard questions. In 2009, the disappearance of teenager Brittanee Drexel from a crowded Myrtle Beach sidewalk made headlines around the world. In episode 12 of season 31 of DATELINE, entitled “The Last Walk”, we travel the years of false leads, dramatic twists and outrageous lies that led from that rowdy Spring break evening to a jail cell in rural South Carolina and a confession that feels half-baked at best. Plenty of people failed to prevent this awful tragedy, and Christopher and Eric have plenty to say about all of them — but maybe not as much as Keith!
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A fateful walk to the beach. A make-up case left behind. A serial killer who died before he could answer for his crimes. Following this trail of sandy clues, Spring Broke heads to the heart of Spring Break country — Daytona Beach, Florida — and travels back in time to 1984. Here Christopher and Eric unearth a decades old story of a vanished young woman, a mysteriously troubled mother and a tragically incompetent medical examiner as True Crime TV Club serves up DISAPPEARED, Season 4, Episode 9, entitled “Spring Break Nightmare”. What became of struggling high school student Colleen Orsborn on that long ago afternoon when she left her house in search of sun, sand and freedom? And why did it take so long to find out?
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Welcome to Spring Broke, where adolescents make reckless decisions and your hosts are reminded why they don’t have kids. Because they’d be too afraid to let them out of the house! It’s not the first time Christopher and Eric have visited a small Texas town in search of a missing young man. Echoes of the Tom Brown story can be heard in this breathless installment of True Crime TV Club. Here your hosts serve up a two part episode of the Paramount + series NEVER SEEN AGAIN, Parts 1 and 2 covering the dramatic disappearance of 18-year-old Caleb Diehl. When the borrowed truck Caleb was driving suddenly reappears but the young man who was driving it doesn’t, the resulting investigation unearths a dark legacy of abuse and lies, shaking the tiny, dusty hamlet of Nocona, Texas down to its cattle ranching roots. Police might have the right man, but for what crime? More importantly, where is Caleb? The question remains unanswered, but Christopher and Eric have theories. And they’re not as pretty as the young man at the center of this disturbing case.
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Christopher and Eric have done their fair share of snickering at famous paranormal hucksters. This time the joke’s on them. After visiting their respective hometowns, this final installment of Mortality Month pokes at the veil between the living and the dead in not-so-sunny Southern California, the place your hosts have called home for decades. In the process, they rustle up some genuinely terrifying entities. In episode 11 of season 2 of PARANORMAL WITNESS entitled “The Good Skeleton/Hollywood Haunting”, we’re transported to the night-dark hills beneath the Hollywood sign and the dusty and dangerous backgrounds of rural California. Your hosts are set back on their heels by these compelling and disturbingly believable accounts from real people who’ve brushed up against terrifying events they can’t fully explain. (Actually, Eric only believed about 40% of the second story, but you can’t win ‘em all.)
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Mortality Month continues. After visiting the haunted happenings in Christopher’s birthplace, it’s time to rustle up some spirits in the Medieval German town in which Eric Shaw Quinn took his first breath — and barked out his first highly detailed tea order. Welcome to Heidelberg, Germany. Here your hosts are introduced to a band of high-strung ghost chasers for whom every breeze, shadow, snapping twig or leafless tree is the stuff of a complex and frightening supernatural narrative for which they present not a single shred of compelling evidence. In this episode of GHOST CHASERS, entitled “Heidelberg”, Eric decides the secret gay romance he’s dreamed up between two of the handsome ghost hunters is a far more interesting avenue of exploration than the team psychic’s ceaseless and absurd proclamations. It’s his birthday, so we’ll let him roll with it. Word to the wise — if you watch the episode on Tubi, it’s actually episode 6, not episode 7. Be advised we don’t recommend watching either.
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Christopher likes to say he’s a man with two hometowns, and the City by The Bay is the first of the two. That’s why Eric suggested they serve up this special about Bay Area hauntings. Or was it Christopher who suggested it? One thing’s clear, after watching episodes 1 and 2 of THE HAUNTED BAY, neither host wants to take blame for bringing it to the table. Despite the profoundly amateurish filmmaking and incomprehensible interviews, these two episodes of — we’re not sure what to call it, exactly — left your hosts tackling some hard hitting questions. Can ghosts fry camera batteries? Was a nightclub employee who was crushed to death by a prop piano during an act of lovemaking the victim of a grisly accident or murder? You know, the important stuff that keeps everyone up at night.
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It’s Christopher and Eric’s birthday month. And what have these dark lords of the podcastverse unleashed at this time of celebration and reflection? Mortality Month, of course. In part thanks to you. Our beloved Party People asked us to take a break from grisly murders and return to the world of the paranormal (and it’s “occasional” fraudsters and cranks.) To give it a birthday theme, your hosts cut a path through the states they’ve called home, starting with the boot-shaped one at the mouth of the muddy Mississip. Follow along as they serve up episode 1 of season 1 of HAUNTED USA, entitled “New Orleans”. In the City That Care Forgot, Christopher and Eric face off with rampaging spirits (and tourists), night vision cameras and haunted houses where everyone seems a little too eager to make a quick buck.
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Clark Williams, our fellow citizen detective at TDPS, returns to round out Citizen Detective Month with another stunning interview, this one focused on a murder that struck close to home for your hosts. In August of 1987 the mutilated remains of eighteen-year-old runaway Tracy Nute were found scattered along Interstate 5 between Los Angeles and Fresno. Meanwhile, an appliance rental company in West Hollywood discovered someone had returned a chainsaw that was flecked with bits of blood and human bone. Were these two horrifying incidents the work of a serial killer preying on young queer men long before Jeffrey Dahmer made headlines for his hideous crimes? With Clark on the case, we’re hopeful we’ll have answers soon as he applies the Clark Williams Method to another baffling case.
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It wouldn’t be Citizen Detective Month at TDPS if Christopher and Eric didn’t include their very own fellow citizen detective, Clark Williams, the brilliant and determined amateur sleuth who solved the murder of Billy Newton after thirty years. Clark joins the podcast in our Sunset Strip studios to discuss the cold case murders he’s been working on since finding justice for Billy. Who abandoned Alice Ellicot’s corpse in a Midwestern field? Who ended Talfrieda Covington’s life steps from the front door of her own home? We’re hopeful Clark’s work with local authorities brings justice for these nearly forgotten victims as well.
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Citizen Detective Month continues with a decades old mystery that will set your teeth on edge and bring your blood to a boil. In this True Crime TV Club installment, Christopher and Eric serve up episode 7 of season 3 of DEADLINE: CRIME WITH TAMRON HALL entitled “Never Stop Looking”, the tale of Ruth Vosseler’s search for her missing children. When her marriage hit the rocks, Ruth assumed she and her husband would reach an amicable, if difficult, parting. Then one day he and their two children never returned from a weekend away visiting relatives, relatives who soon confessed her husband and the children had never showed up there either. The resulting saga includes false starts, an FBI manhunt and an unflinching look into the many ways the system failed this crusading and determined mother as she became her own investigator in the search for her missing children.
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Welcome to Malibu, home to surf, celebrities and a murderous sniper who became a political football in a hotly contested election for Los Angeles County Sheriff. Christopher and Eric kick off Citizen Detective Month with this twisty exploration of a case that captivated LA County and the nation. Is amateur journalist and Malibu resident CeCe Woods a crusader for justice or an overwrought conspiracy theorist who allowed herself to be used by ambitious politicians? Find out in this installment of True Crime TV Club as your hosts serve up episode 2 of season 1 of the show CITIZEN P.I. entitled “Malibu Sniper.”
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"If you've got a criminal record in both Florida and Jersey, you're automatically guilty," is the line that emerges loudest from your hosts in this new installment of True Crime TV Club’s Winter Times Crime finale. Here the victim is only spoken for by one friend, who didn't seem to know her very well, and the footprints leading into the victim's house don't seem to come out again. In episode 1, season 1 of HOME SWEET HOMICIDE entitled "Footprints In The Snow", the Northeast shows its most frigid colors in a tale of young love gone bad. But Eric senses some holes in the story he's eager to fill.
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Can a hunting accident happen behind the wheel of a car? Can a stray bullet travel over a mile? Can a cold blooded killer be quite this transparent and stupid? These are the Winter Time Crime questions Christopher and Eric want answers to as they serve up episode 5, season 6 of ICE COLD KILLERS entitled "Open Season". On a freeze night in a small Missouri town, the killing of a local outdoorsman leaves the community baffled — until the killer starts advertising their guilt in bright red neon.
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Christopher and Eric serve up one of the most infamous, unsolved mysteries of all time, the Dyatlov Pass Incident, as Winter Time Crime continues with a tale of the collision of Cold War secrecy and Russia's brutal wintry landscape — a tale that produced decades of paranormal conspiracy mongering. Apparently winter wasn't the harshest thing awaiting this group of experienced young Russian hikers when they set out into the Ural Mountains in 1959. While the documentary AN UNKNOWN COMPELLING FORCE might have its flaws, it gives a thorough crash course in this baffling story — not so baffling to Eric, however, who offers up an explanation as simple as it is compelling.
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