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Warning! This post contains spoilers for Woman of the Hour.

This post contains mentions of sexual assault, murder, and Rodney Alcala's real-life violent crimes.

Before its credits start rolling, Woman of the Hour reveals that Rodney Alcala might have had as many as 130 victims, which raises questions about the extent of his real-life crimes. Directed by Anna Kendrick, Woman of the Hour walks through a harrowing segment of Rodney Alcala's timeline, primarily focusing on how he ended up on The Dating Game show and managed to win it. Apart from depicting his time as a Dating Game contestant, the movie also portrays some of his most harrowing murders before featuring the events that led to his February 1979 arrest.

Since the film primarily follows Rodney Alcala's 1978 appearance in The Dating Game and his crimes around that time, it avoids delving too deep into his past criminal record or the offenses...

Black Dahlia obsessives, take note — TNT’s new drama series, I Am the Night (which debuted on January 28th), is getting a companion podcast that will dig into the true events which inspired the series and made George Hodel a primary suspect in Elizabeth Short’s 1947 unsolved murder. Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia, produced in partnership with Cadence13, will premiere the first of eight episodes on February 13th.

I Am the Night, directed by Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman), tells the story...

True crime stories have taken off in the past several months, but the new TNT drama I Am the Night takes a slightly different tack: a semifictionalized story based on real criminal cases that have fascinated Americans for decades. The noir drama debuted on Jan. 27, and viewers are already wondering just how much of the eerie story is true. The answer is more complicated than a simple fact vs. fiction comparison.

I Am the Night is based on an autobiography by Fauna Hodel, titled One Day She'll Darken: The Mysterious Beginnings of Fauna Hodel. Fauna herself is credited as a cowriter on the TV miniseries, although she passed away from breast cancer in 2017. Fauna's story is the kind of tale that sounds like a Hollywood noir film - but it actually happened. Horrifying crimes, secret adoption, and an infamous cold case all play a part in I Am the Night...

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If your fascination with true crime rivals your infatuation with Chris Pine, then I Am the Night is the new obsession you've been waiting for. The six-part TNT miniseries portrays the real-life events of the 1947 Black Dahlia murder, and though some of the events and characters are fictionalized, the terrifying murder at the heart of the show is totally real.

Nicknamed "the Black Dahlia," Elizabeth Short was a 22-year-old waitress and aspiring actress living in Los Angeles when she was found brutally murdered in a vacant lot near Leimert Park in 1947, her body cut in half and severely mutilated. In the series, Jay Singletary attempts to figure out who could be behind the murder by tracking down a young woman named Fauna Hodel after receiving an anonymous tip. What does Fauna have to do with anything? Though the real-life Fauna Hodel didn't know about her connection...

Chris Pine and Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins reunite for I Am the Night, an upcoming limited series based on the mystery surrounding the Black Dahlia murder. The six-episode series premieres on TNT on January 28th.

I Am the Night, inspired by true events and the memoir One Day She’ll Darken, tells the story of Faith Hodel, a teenage girl who travels to late-1940s Los Angeles to search out her birth father, a prominent doctor with a sordid past. Chris Pine plays a reporter who helps Hodel in...

The sprawling Los Feliz, California, mansion at the center of one of Hollywood’s unsolved crimes was sold for nearly $5 million, according to La Magazine.

The home, known as the Sowden Residence, was designed by architect Lloyd Wright and evokes a Mayan temple with a pyramid-like facade and concrete construction. It was listed and sold by Douglas Elliman.

Emblazoned on the blocks of concrete are the symbols for elements such as water, earth and air.

For decades, the mansion has been a popular location for television and film shoots, but the most fascinating aspect of the home lies in the...