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Podcast: The Grim Curriculum
Episode: Episode 78: Jeepers Creepers! It's Dennis DePue
Description: This true crime case was the (unofficial) inspiration for the opening scene of 2001 film, Jeepers Creepers. Once you learn a little more about the events witnessed by couple Ray and Marie Thornton on Easter Sunday of 1990 in Cold Water, Michigan, it's not hard to see why it inspired a scene from a gruesome horror movie. They didn't know it at the time but they had witnessed the aftermath of the violent murder of Marilynn DePue by her ex-husband Dennis DePue.
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