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Did they find Dennis DePue? ›

Dennis Depue, 47, was found slumped behind the wheel of his van about 4 a.m., only moments after he had fired a . 357-caliber Magnum at Warren County deputies and Vicksburg police during a chase that began in Louisiana, Sheriff Paul Barrett said.

The disposal of DuePue's wife's body coupled with his subsequent, protracted manhunt are clear influences on the final Jeepers Creepers backstory. In 1990, Michigan resident Dennis DePue was the target of a police manhunt after he murdered his wife and disposed of her body behind an abandoned schoolhouse.

TIL Jeepers Creepers (2001) is based on an episode of Unsolved Mysteries (S3E20 - 1991)

For those unfamiliar with the film, “Jeepers Creepers” is based around “The Creeper,” a mythical beast that kills humans to harvest their organs every 23rd of March. The reason it does this is to replace the ones that are rotting away on the creature's body.

In Jeepers Creepers' ending, Trish offered to take her brother's place. This proved that she was not afraid of dying and thus ironically detracted from her appeal to the monster. The Creeper didn't just want to kill and eat people but specifically wanted to feed on their fear.

This is the story of Dennis DePue. In April of 1990, a man murdered his recent ex-wife in their shared home. What ensued was a terrifying car chase and suspicious abandoned schoolhouse disposal that inspired the movie Jeepers Creepers.

Taking that idea further, licensed Jeepers Creepers comic books reveal that The Creeper participated in a human sacrifice during the time of the Aztecs, and that it was actually responsible for the infamous disappearance of settlers from America's Roanoke colony in the late 1500s.

Jeepers Creepers (2001)

In Florida, Trish Jenner (Gina Philips) and her brother Darry (Justin Long) are traveling home from college for spring break. On the road, they spot the driver of an old truck dumping several bodies into a large pipe outside an abandoned church.

In 1990, on Easter Sunday in Coldwater, Michigan, Marilyn DePue, a high school counselor vanished under suspicious circ*mstances. DePue's husband, Dennis, was immediately the prime suspect. They had a rocky marriage, and when she filed for divorce - he snapped.

Dennis Depew was born on 22 August 1975 in Lindsay, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Live Free or Die Hard (2007), City of Lies (2018) and Standoff (2006).

When did Jeepers Creepers wake up? ›

The Creeper hibernates for 23 years, and after his long slumber, he hunts for 23 days before falling asleep again. The three Jeepers Creepers films written and directed by Salva take place in the same 23-day cycle.

Even after death, Darry worked with Billy to warn Minxie about The Creeper, and had a lot of knowledge about the nature of the Demon aside from Jezzelle. However, Darry is shown to possess so much fear after he escaped the church's basem*nt. This probably was the reason the Creeper sought for the siblings.

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The Creeper, it seems, comes out every 23 years to kill and eat people. He's not a man, but he dresses like one, and he eats humans for the purpose of assimilating and utilizing their parts.

The evidence strongly indicated Depue killed his ex-wife, which was confirmed the next day, as a highway worker discovered Marilynn's body, shot once in the back of the head, lying near a deserted road. The road was midway between the schoolhouse and her home according to an episode of Unsolved Mysteries.

He died on 21 March 1991, in Vicksburg, Warren, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 47, and was buried in Eagle Cemetery, LaGrange, Indiana, United States.

Darry died when The Creeper tempered and removed his brain so he could take his eyes. The Creeper sat for some time removing its own eyes and ate Darry's eyes, which then became his eyes. He is seen holding a long needle in his hand which it was obvious he was going to use to sew the back of Darry's head back on with.

At a diner, the pair receive a call from Jezelle Gay Hartman (Patricia Belcher), a woman who tells them that they are going to be tracked down by the driver, revealed to be an ancient demonic creature known as the Creeper (Jonathan Breck) who kills and eats people every twenty-three years for twenty-three days.