48. Who Killed the Babysitter? Janett Christman is Murdered in Columbia, Missouri | 1950

Crime Soup

CW: Rape

What happened to Janett Christman is every teenage girl’s worst nightmare. In fact, the events of that evening would become the real-life inspiration for urban legends and films for decades to come, including John Carpenter’s Halloween and Fred Walton’s When a Stranger Calls.
 
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