- (React) I will be presenting you
with a bevy of macabre stories about crime.
But here's the thing:
you have to tell me if it's a real life true crime story,
or a story from a scene from a movie.
- Reel, or real. (laughs)
- (React) Are either of you true crime fans?
- Yes.
- (React) Oh. - Eh, yeah.
- (React) 1986, a father and his two daughters
were tormented by a teenager who lived inside their walls for weeks.
He was known for changing TV channels,
moving objects within the residence, and consuming their food.
Obsessed with one of the daughters of the house,
he wrote messages on the walls like marry me,
and I'm in your room with condiments from the fridge.
- Just like a man, mm-hmm. - Why, with mustard and ketchup.
(Johnett laughs)
- People do weird stuff though, too.
- Well, he's obviously nuts.
- I feel like it could be real!
- You remember when you were like in high school or something,
and you had a crush, and you would like kinda
run to the class to kinda peek at your crush?
Oh my God, was that just me? Please stop!
- Real. (bell rings)
- Real! - Reel.
(bell rings) (buzzer rings)
- Reel. (buzzer rings)
- Real. (bell rings)
- Dude, people are weird, man.
- (narrator) In the autumn of 1986.
- That picture scares me.
- (narrator) One evening, they found writing on the basement wall.
- No. - (narrator) And panicked.
- I would've been out of the house already.
- (narrator) An officer noticed hidden access to a crawl space
under the stairs. - Oh God.
- He Harry Pottered it? (thunder crackles)
- Ugh, ooh!
- It sounds way more romantic when it's like Phantom of the Opera.
♪ (haunting organ music) ♪
- No, no it doesn't! - Like, they make it in movies...
- Who does that? Like seriously,
I mean, no I don't get it.
- Apparently this man does that. - I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't.
- Marry me, blah! - No condiments in my house.
- (React) 1995, a string of grisly religiously inspired murders
tormented a metropolitan community, resulting in the gruesome deaths
of six area residents.
The suspect, known as John Doe, was also killed
after the detective received a package informing him
of his wife's passing.
The detective's partner on the case tried to stop him
before he shot the suspect, but he couldn't get ahead of the moment.
- Okay. Um...
- I'm feeling L.A. Confidential. There's a detective, grisly murders,
now granted, it wasn't, you know, religious, but,
something always happening in church.
- Now, you probably don't know Se7en with Brad Pitt.
- Oh, I know Se7en with Brad Pitt!
What's in the box? What's in the box? (laughs)
- Reel. - Reel.
- ♪ Reel ♪ (bell rings)
- (both) Reel. (bell rings)
- (React) Because it's Se7en with Brad Pitt!
- Oh my God! (Catherine screams)
- (David) What's going on over there?
- (William) Put the gun down.
- (David) I saw you with a box, what was in the box?
- (John) Because I envy your normal life.
- Anything with Kevin Spacey's crazy ass is fabulous.
- (David) Aw, what's in the box? - Aw, what's in the box?
- (React) Do you remember what was in the box?
- No, I don't. - (React) It was his wife's head.
(Johnett gasps)
She was also pregnant.
- Yeah. - Aw, damn.
- Yeah.
- I'd have killed his ass too, to be honest.
- Yeah? - I mean no, but yes.
- Ah, he's so fine, dude. - Ah!
- I'm sorry.
- I mean, his wife's head in a box.
- That's disgusting!
- Brad is in it!
- (React) 1942, a renowned detective was murdered in the line of duty
while pursuing an armed robber.
The assailant dropped a piano from the 15th story of a downtown high rise,
instantly killing the detective and severely injuring his partner.
- [Censored] they manage to get a piano over the edge?
That [censored] heavy. - I was like questions.
- I've seen weirder stuff.
There used to be a bear enlisted in the military.
- I'm getting Looney Tunes vibes, where they drop a piano.
- That's the first thing I thought too.
- Reel. - Reel.
- Real! (buzzer rings)
- Reel. (bell rings)
- Real. (buzzer rings)
(Doom whimpers)
- Oh, I've seen this!
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit, are you serious?
- I knew it was a bunny involved.
- This, traumatizing as a child.
- I had nightmares about this dude standing up after getting rolled over.
- That terrifying. Terrifying!
- (Doom) Not just a toon!
(woman screams)
- Ew! (React laughs)
- (React) 2003, in what may be considered the heist of the century,
a five-man crew stole over 100 million dollars
in diamonds, gold, and silver, from a vault in Belgium.
Leonardo Notarbartolo led a crew of men
known as the School of Turin.
Members' names included the Genius, the Monster,
the King of Keys, and Speedy.
The leader was later nabbed by authorities
due to an ill-timed panic attack and a sandwich.
(Brian laughs)
- The one where the Mini Cooper raced down the steps?
- That's The Italian Job. - Yeah.
- No, it kinda sounds like The Italian Job, though.
- Reel. - Real!
- Real. (bell rings)
- Reel. (buzzer rings)
- (both) Reel!
- (React) You're both wrong! (buzzer rings)
This is an absolute true crime story.
- Who comes up with these names? Monster and Speedy?
- Master of Keys, I feel like they're like five years old,
pretending they're like... - (React) I'm a master of keys.
- (narrator) The suspects are thought to be a highly specialized
team of illusionists. - Oh, they were illusionists.
- (narrator) They managed to dismantle 10 layers of security.
- Heists are so fascinating to me. - Oh my gosh!
- (narrator) Believed to be Leonardo Notarbartolo.
- I love his like dad photos. - Casual dude.
Yeah, casual dad, you know? (laughs)
- Just here with the kids. - (Izzy) I wanted to believe him.
- Heists are just so cool!
There's just like high level intelligence,
getting past 10 levels of security to steal as much money as possible.
- (React) 1975.
In what was described as a brazen, random act
of ironic, violent, malice, a famous English historian
was attacked and killed with a broadsword
by a man on horseback while filming a documentary
on medieval holy wars.
Witnesses on the scene watched in horror
as the man on horseback swiftly retreated
into the English countryside.
- That is wild. - It's brutal.
- Man, with a...
- Broadsword while riding a horse,
instead of using a saber? - It's Life of Brian.
It's Life of Brian.
- Wait, what year is this again?
- (React) 1975. - Does that help you?
(both laugh)
- Real. - Real.
- Reel! (bell rings)
- (both) Reel! (bell rings)
- (man) Feature for schools, take eight.
- Oh my God, this is Monty Python and the Holy Grail?
Ugh!
- A famous historian.
- They let it go on, and they let it go on,
and then they go okay, this is over with, ha!
- No. (laughs) - Oh!
(laughs) That was so [censored] up, but it was really funny!
- (laughs) You said I like when that happened to him.
- (laughs) Well I mean, honestly.
- (React) 2018, a man with sticky fingers
pilfered piggies from a past person
and was convicted of stealing human toes from a corpse.
The toes he took were valued at anywhere between
$3,800 and $5,000 each.
- Wait a minute, why are toes that money?
- I'm gonna sell my toes right now.
- Really?
- I hear that's like a thing in prison.
They actually like go around and... - Steal your toes?
- I honestly don't think he's guilty.
(both laugh)
- Reel. - Real.
- (both) Real!
- Real. (bell rings)
- (narrator) A 28 year old man was charged with stealing
two human toes worth $11,000 from a dead person.
- Oh, Body Worlds. I was just there!
- Oh, what!?
- Body exhibit. - At Body Worlds?
- I've actually been to his exhibit. - Same, same.
I passed out.
- Gotta be real. - Freakity freak freak.
Cutting off dead people's toes.
- (narrator) A small village in England's West Country
was shocked to discover that the local Neighborhood Watch Association
was behind a rash of suspicious deaths
around the community.
A recently reassigned metropolitan police officer
investigating the occurrences found the NWA was responsible
for numerous murders, including that of a local journalist, Tim Messenger,
who was crushed under dislodged masonry
from atop the community church tower.
- Ugh, I, I don't know. (laughs) - (laughs) In shock.
- I love this movie with all my heart.
Oh, I may have given it away.
- Reel. - Real?
(bell rings) (buzzer rings)
- Reel. (bell rings)
- (React) You're both correct, Travis, what is it?
- It's Hot Fuzz! - (React) It's Hot Fuzz!
- Are you [censored] with me? I've seen that!
- (Nicholas) You mothers.
- Oh yes! - I love this part!
Oh my God, when he starts jumping 'em.
- Yes!
- Oh yes, get it! He is looking...
- He's running, he's a track star. - (both) Oh!
- Oh, don't even.
- Nope, that is relatable. - Listen.
- Real. - I understand.
- (narrator) 1993, a four star restaurant
became a house of horror when a guest,
seemingly possessed, started attacking patrons and staff.
In what was described as something otherworldly,
when the staff tried to subdue him, he severely broke a man's arm
before violently biting and mutilating another staff member's genitals.
Before the night was over, the body count included
a man thrown from a window, and another with massive chest trauma
suffering from cardiac extraction.
- Cardiac extraction.
(Travis imitates heartbeat) - Those are in New York,
you know that... (React laughs)
- I don't know, it's so wild.
- Reel. (bell rings)
- Real. (buzzer rings)
- Reel. (bell rings)
- 'Cause I don't know, 'cause how do you pull a heart out?
- (Lloyd) Woo!
- Dumb and Dumber? - Dumber.
- No!
- Oh!
- (laughs) I am so mad at you! Oh.
- I like those moves, yes, yes, ugh, ugh, get it!
(Travis babbles)
- (laughs) Oh! (Catherine screams)
I forgot about this! (laughs)
Phew, phew, phew, phew!
(yells)
(Brian laughs)
- (Lloyd) Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah!
- Ah, oh!
(Travis yells)
(Catherine yells) (Travis laughs)
- Alright, listen. - Wow.
- Two movies I gotta watch. - (React) Yeah!
1971.
In a brazen act of air piracy, a man successfully hijacked
a Boeing 727, extorted $200,000,
and secured some parachutes through hostage negotiation.
He then opened the aircraft door mid-flight and leapt out of the plane
with the money, somewhere in the Pacific Northwest,
never to be seen again.
Although authorities discovered a portion of the money
along a riverbank, the man remains at large,
and the case remains unsolved.
- I love a good unsolved crime.
- Real? (bell rings)
- (both) Real!
- It's D.B. Cooper. - (React) Is it?
- Yeah. - (React) You sure?
- Real. (bell rings)
- (React) It's D.B. Cooper! (laughs)
- (narrator) Of all of America's skyjackings,
only one remains unsolved.
A passenger using the name Dan Cooper
hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines flight...
- Was that a suitcase full of dynamite?
- (Izzy) Yeah.
- (narrator) Cooper demanded four parachutes and $200,000.
- That's it? - I know, right?
- I would've asked for more. - It was 1971.
That was a lot of money, then. - Oh, true.
- (narrator) Cooper jumped from the back stairs
of the Boeing 727... - He had to have like,
some Army background, because there's, military background,
'cause there's no way...
- (narrator) Suspects included a mass murderer,
a college professor, a career criminal,
and a World War II veteran.
- Oh, there you go. I called it.
Yeah, there's no way he just like casually, like...
- I love that you said I called it.
She's like mystery solved, it's that guy.
- Genius, clearly.
If he survived and didn't die. - Yeah.
- Oh, he died. (React laughs)
(laughs) He died.
- (React) 1994.
Authorities are searching for a missing child.
After discovering his deceased father at the bottom of a remote canyon.
An eye witness on the scene said the man tumbled
down the western face of the canyon,
startling a herd of grazing animals resulting in a stampede...
(Izzy laughs)
...that may have contributed to some of the bodily injuries.
Authorities are not ruling out foul play.
The victim's brother is asking the community to be on high alert,
and to be prepared.
- You're so dumb!
- We know exactly what this is!
- That's my favorite song!
- This one's good, Joe. (laughs)
I think I know what this is. (laughs)
I could be so wrong, but I could also be so right.
(bell rings)
- Reel. (bell rings)
- (both) Reel. (bell rings)
- Watch it be Lion King. I swear.
(both laugh)
- Oh my God!
Oh, I knew it!
(Johnett laughs)
- I was correct! (laughs)
- I've never seen Lion King.
- It's basically Hamlet. Brother kills...
- (Scar) Long live the king. - Uncle kills...
Kills the dad, takes over the community.
- (Simba) No!
- (React) A very verbose and eccentric presidential candidate
found out he might not have everyone's support,
as he was about to give a 50 page speech
on a campaign trail, a man opened fire and shot him.
While many rushed to his aid, he simply waved them away
and bravely finished his planned speech.
Turns out that 50 page speech saved his life,
when the bullet passed through it, and his eyeglasses case,
slowing the bullet and keeping it from inflicting mortal damage.
- Wow. - What?
- This is a president? Of America?
- Okay, it sounds too obvious, though,
so I don't know if I should switch my answer.
- I don't know. - (React) You sure?
- No.
(bell rings) - Reel?
- Real. (bell rings)
- Real. - Teddy Roosevelt!
- (React) That's right, Catherine! - Teddy Roosevelt.
- (narrator) Before he delivered his speech,
he was shot in the chest by John Flammang Schrank.
- Damn.
- (narrator) The bullet entered his chest,
though he knew the bullet hadn't hit his lungs.
- Oh wow.
- (narrator) So he planned to continue giving his speech.
- He was pretty badass.
- They were a different breed back then, bro.
- When his picture came up, the thought that came up was
like, he has a porn 'stache. (laughs)
- (React) Scores have been tabulated, and it's a tie!
Jack is our winner. - Yes!
- Alright, Jack. - I try, I try.
- (React) Both of you!
- Ah! - Yay!
- We did it, yay! - That's the best part!
- I think we have a hidden talent though,
for figuring stuff out.
- I don't, but okay, you do, you do. - Yeah. (laughs)
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- Let us know what other true crimes we missed in the comments below.
- Bye! (laughs) - Bye!
Be safe out there! - Be safe!