American Horror Story Freak Show: 5 Things We Know

3. Jupiter, Florida

Asking why Ryan Murphy chose Jupiter, Florida as a setting for the new American Horror Story season would be a very good question. Given that any Google search combing the town and "freak show" will now only turn up reports on the show and not on any specific history that the town might have had for such performers, it seems we might not know for a while. One major event did occur in Jupiter in the 1950s, and it was something that might be right up the alley of Murphy's writing team. On June 15, 1955, Judge Curtis E. Chillingsworth and his wife were brutally murdered by a swamp trapper called Nelson who had previously been his rival in real estate bidding but also had been friends. The point that the show might pick up on is that although years later, the story of how the murder was committed came to light, the bodies of the judge and his wife were never found €“ and that it was in fact orchestrated by a fellow Judge. It certainly all sounds like a subplot that would fit neatly into an American Horror Story season.