Chuck Bryant

Yeah, I guess, I mean, 1950 is going to 1950.

Right.

That's right.

The Romacks called the house about 30 minutes later, but no one answered.

And I guess they didn't sweat it because they didn't show up until 1.30 in the morning.

They weren't like, we should rush home.

They opened the front door to find a pretty nasty, grisly murder scene.

Janet was dead there in a pool of blood.

She had been sexually assaulted and strangled to death.

And it appears that she had struggled with her attacker.

There was no shotgunning, obviously.

But that porch light was on, which makes it even sadder.

Yeah, for sure.

The other detail I didn't mention was that the phone had been ripped from the wall.

So that would explain when she shouted come quick and the line went dead.

It seems that, you know, that was when the phone was ripped away from the wall, possibly by Robert Mueller, although nobody was ever tied to her death officially.

No one was ever arrested as far as I know.

No, but supposedly that is the story that inspired The Call is Coming from the House or at the very least inspired When a Stranger Calls was probably the most famous use of The Call is Coming from Inside the House from 1979.

Also Black Christmas, a great, great horror movie.

Halloween in 1978.