133. The Case of Tina Fealz / Haunted Movie Sets

Summary

Hold your family close, be kind to others… this episode makes you take a deeper look at the choices we make. Bettina shares the horrible death of 14 year old Tina Fealz. A young girl, with a bright future, taken far too soon. Beth attempts at lighting things up a bit with tales of haunted movie sets and curses set upon different movies over the years!
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Transcription

It was April 5, 1984 in Pleasanton, CA. 14 year old Tina Fealz was walking home from school by way of a shortcut running under the 680 freeway. A short time later her bloodied body was found. Tina had been stabbed 44 times. The police were not short of suspects, but one by one they they fell off the list. In this episode Bettina covers the ins and outs of the case, introducing listeners to Tina Fealz, her untimely death and the men who were questioned in the years following the murder. This is not an unsolved crime, the killer is behind bars, but will he soon be paroled?

Beth covers movies and their sets that are reported to have been haunted. Curses claiming the lives of actors and members of their families. Strange illnesses affecting actors. Objects moving around the movie set. Listeners will be stunned after hearing the unexplained activities happening on the sets of Amityville Horror, The Conjuring and The Omen…just to name a few of the movies Beth covers.

14 year old Tina Fealz was stabbed to death while walking home from school in 1984. https://people.com/crime/prison-inmate-confesses-to-killing-14-year-old-tina-faelz-in-1984-when-he-was-16/

An officer looks down on the crime scene shortly after Tina’s body was found. The body is blurred out by the white flash. Courtesy of the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office. https://crimecapsule.com/what-happens-when-the-dead-begin-to-speak/

Oh what a difference time and a guilty conscience make. Steven Carlson at 16, when he committed the murder, and Carlson when he was arrested for the murder. (Pleasanton Unified School District/Alameda County Sheriff’s Office) https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/man-convicted-in-1984-murder-of-tina-faelz-in-pleasanton-confesses-to-family-after-years-of-denials/

Strange, unexplained things happened to the actors on the set of The Amityville Horror. Photo: Michael Ochs Archives/Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation/Getty Images, https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/the-history-of-the-haunted-house-in-movies

The Exorcist, a 1973 classic, also one of the most frightening movies to hit the screen (in Bettina’s humble opinion) had many disturbing events during it’s filming. Poster art for The Exorcist Photo: LMPC via Getty Images https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/the-history-of-the-haunted-house-in-movies

SOURCES:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6553142/

https://www.pleasantonweekly.com/news/2020/10/23/36-years-later-former-classmate-confesses-to-murder-of-pleasantons-tina-faelz

https://www.facebook.com/RememberingTinaFaelz/photos/pcb.4615267505213012/4615266631879766

https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/video/on-the-case-with-paula-zahn-investigation-discovery-atve-us/shortcut-to-murder