Haunted Rockford is pleased to present the 2025 Dead Guy Festival – True Crime Expo!  

 

Saturday, April 26, 2025 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM at Historic Auto Attractions Museum, 13825 Metric Drive, Rosco, Illinois.

 

This event will feature speakers on serial killers, gangsters, and murder and mayhem.

 

For years, the Dead Guy Festival – True Crime Expo has been one of the premiere True Crime events in the Northern Illinois-Southern Wisconsin area.  We are very exited to announce the 2025 Dead Guy Festival – True Crime Expo. Every year the festival brings you popular researchers-authors-speakers.

 

Festival Tickets Are Now Available! For more information on the 2025 Dead Guy Festival – True Crime Expo and to register, see the Festival Event Page.

After the presentations the participants will have time to tour the Auto Attractions Museum.

 

   Join us at the 2025 Dead Guy Festival and discover that the truth can be more disturbing than ficion.

 

We’re very proud to present the speakers for the 2025 Dead Guy Festival

 

Chad Lewis

Chad Lewis is an author, researcher, and lecturer on topics of the strange and unusual. The more the bizarre the legend is, the more likely you will find Chad there. …

Sylvia Shults

Sylvia Shults is the author of several books of paranormal nonfiction, including Gone on Vacation: Haunted Zoos, Museums, and Amusement Parks, the award-winning Days of the Dead: A Year of …

Kathi Kresol – Festival Host

Kathi Kresol has been researching the history of Northern Illinois for twenty years. She has published two solo books: “Murder & Mystery in Rockford, Illinois,” (2015); and “Haunted Rockford, Illinois,” …