{"id":1161182,"date":"2025-10-08T14:14:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T18:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/?p=1161182"},"modified":"2025-10-08T14:15:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T18:15:01","slug":"the-scariest-true-crime-series-of-the-year-proves-friday-the-13th-is-no-myth-and-a-new-episode-streams-tonight-october-8-on-hbo-max","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/erinwhitten\/2025\/10\/the-scariest-true-crime-series-of-the-year-proves-friday-the-13th-is-no-myth-and-a-new-episode-streams-tonight-october-8-on-hbo-max\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scariest True Crime Series Of The Year Proves Friday The 13th Is No Myth &#8211; And A New Episode Streams Tonight, October 8 On HBO Max"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Attention fans of all things macabre, <em>The Friday the 13th Murders<\/em> is a true crime docuseries you don\u2019t want to miss. The Investigation Discovery and HBO Max-produced six-part series spotlights real murder and attack cases that all took place, or are connected to, the day most of us are too afraid to schedule anything ~ <em>Friday the 13th<\/em>. In fact, once you see what took place on these unlucky days, you might think twice before dismissing this infamous superstition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Friday the 13th Murders Official Trailer | ID\" width=\"850\" height=\"478\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e9HBWRxt7ro?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Last Wednesday\u2019s opening episode, <em>Obsession to Do Evil,<\/em> set the chilling bar high for the rest of the docuseries with a mesmerizing and tragic tale of a 19-year-old serial killer from Panhandle, Texas. The young man\u2019s fixation with serial killers and Satanism soon snowballed into a bloodthirsty killing spree that would claim the lives of three innocent people and change the course of the town forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Episode two premieres tonight and, if the previews have been <em>any<\/em> indication, is sure to be another wild ride. In this episode, investigators are called to a private residence, where a family has been found dead on the ground of a mansion on a stormy night. In the family\u2019s living room, detectives discover a bloody mask and a letter from the home\u2019s master that details a reference to the demon of The Exorcist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The series airs tonight on Investigation Discovery at 10 p.m. ET, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hbomax.com\/shows\/friday-the-13th-murders\/c8660151-2274-4db2-b7c7-c1a35ff63864\">streams<\/a> the same night on HBO Max and Discovery+. If you missed the first episode, now\u2019s the perfect time to catch up before tonight\u2019s new chapter. Each week promises another real-life tragedy that will make you rethink whether Friday the 13th is just a number, or a date cursed for good reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attention fans of all things macabre, The Friday the 13th Murders is a true crime docuseries you don\u2019t want to miss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":186664079,"featured_media":1161232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"thoughtcatalog_call_to_action":"","tc_post_redirect":"","thoughtcatalog_is_sponsored_content":"0","footnotes":""},"categories":[433445945,603203627],"tags":[603230312,603230254],"anchortext":[],"posttemplate":[],"adcampaign":[],"coauthors":[603229555],"class_list":["post-1161182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spooky","category-tv-movies","tag-documentaries","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1200x675CA.TVA23C01.jpg","author_meta":null,"photo_credit":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/186664079"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1161234,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161182\/revisions\/1161234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1161232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161182"},{"taxonomy":"anchortext","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/anchortext?post=1161182"},{"taxonomy":"posttemplate","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posttemplate?post=1161182"},{"taxonomy":"adcampaign","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adcampaign?post=1161182"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1161182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}