7 Real-Life Horror Stories Behind American Horror Story<\/a>. <\/strong> Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n2. THE BLACK DAHLIA
\n<\/strong>Also during season one, American Horror Story revealed that one of the past guests at the \u201cMurder House\u201d was Elizabeth Short, better known as The Black Dahlia. While AHS suggested a creepy dentist raped the aspiring actress and then let a ghost mutilate her, Short\u2019s real-life killer remains a mystery. A mother and her child stumbled upon her body, which was sliced in half and drained of blood, on the morning of January 15, 1947. Her death became a media sensation, and newspapers quickly dubbed her \u201cThe Black Dahlia.\u201d This was supposedly both a play on the 1946 film noir The Blue Dahlia and a reference to Short\u2019s love of sheer black dresses.<\/p>\nBecause the cuts on her body pointed to a murderer with surgical skills, the police began searching for doctors. They never identified the culprit, but people are still naming suspects to this day. In 2014, retired homicide detective Steve Hodel produced evidence that his own father was the killer.<\/p>\n
5. THE AXEMAN OF NEW ORLEANS
\n<\/strong>Another NOLA murderer appeared in American Horror Story\u2019s witchy third season. That would be the so-called Axeman of New Orleans. The anonymous killer terrorized the city between 1918 and 1919 by breaking into houses and slaying residents with an axe. In March of 1919, he reportedly wrote to The Times-Picayune, threatening a fresh attack but promising to spare any home that was playing jazz, his favorite music.<\/p>\nJazz was blared across the city that night, so no one was killed. But sporadic attacks continued until October, when a grocer got the final blow. Although some speculated that the deaths were spurred by Mafia feuds, the Axeman\u2019s motive and identity were never determined. He remains famous for his peculiar letter to the editor, which was recreated on American Horror Story.<\/p>\n
6. JOHN WAYNE GACY, KILLER CLOWN<\/strong>
\nJohn Wayne Gacy\u2019s crimes filled out two separate seasons of American Horror Story. In AHS: Freak Show, his spirit is channeled through Twisty the Clown, a disfigured children\u2019s entertainer who kidnaps and kills. Later, in AHS: Hotel, the same actor who played Twisty (John Carroll Lynch) returned to play Gacy for “Devil’s Night,” a special Halloween episode featuring other notorious serial killers, including Aileen Wuornos and Jeffrey Dahmer.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s easy to see why AHS used Gacy twice, given his backstory. From 1972 through 1978, Gacy sexually assaulted and murdered at least 33 teenage boys. When he wasn\u2019t luring those young men into his suburban home, he was dressing up as Pogo the Clown for kids\u2019 birthday parties. After the police uncovered mass graves in his crawlspace and throughout his property, Gacy was put on trial and sentenced to die by lethal injection. He spent 14 years on death row before he was executed in 1994.<\/p>\n
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