After firing a couple of warning shots at approaching officers, DePue then turned the gun on himself, thus ending the grim saga.Īpril 15th, 1990. After he disappeared and Mary discovered who he really was, she contacted the police immediately and DePue was located within just four hours. Having changed his name and attracting a new girlfriend, Mary, DePue was living happily as Hank when his story was made public.
her body found by an eerie old school bus also ties back to Jeepers Creepers as it is similar how the creeper stores his bodies.ĭePue was found only when his story aired on Unsolved Mysteries. He carried her body to the car, telling their children that he was taking her to the hospital. Dennis DuPueįollowing building tensions on an already tense marriage, forty-six-year-old Dennis DePue had murdered his forty-eight-year-old wife Marilynn earlier that day, beating and pushing her down a flight of stairs, as reports go. And when you lose your wife, children, and home, there’s not much left. Marilynn had many, many opportunities to treat me fairly during this divorce, but she chose to string it out, trick me, lie to me. Dennis’ story, and that of his wife Marilynn and their three children, follows unsettlingly similar beats to that of Salva’s 2001 pseudo-slasher, though the reality is far more horrifying than any fictional, bat-winged killer scarecrow could hope to be. Here we introduce Dennis DePue, a disturbed murderer and a direct influence on the character of the Creeper himself. While the rest of the flick doesn’t quite retain the nail-biting tension offered here, Jeepers Creepers still remains a fun and gory horror outing for nostalgic or less-demanding viewers. Though packed with genre clichés and predictable cheese, the film features one of the more imaginative and effectively chilling openings of the 2000s a long and sparse shot of a rural stretch of road where an increasingly menacing-looking van approaches our protagonists’ car. Its story of a brother and sister’s road trip crossing paths with the twisted and deadly Creeper captivated audiences in its day. Victor Salva’s millennial cult classic Jeepers Creepers (2001) was an important film in the lives of many budding horror fans. Is Jeepers Creepers all fiction, or could it be that there was some true story inspiration for such a terrifying opening, not to mention the bloody events that follow?
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