Hop on the bus and visit the scenes of the crimes. You can even reenact a few.

Ever wonder what it’s like to get away with murder? Judging from the frenzy surrounding any number of high-profile cases in recent years, you’re not alone.

On Sunday, offbeat tour company Esotouric offers a way to get inside the mind of a killer that does not involve repeat viewings of “Nancy Grace,” with its special Halloween Horrors Crime Bus tour. Billed as its “most grisly” tour (and the only one with a no-kids-allowed policy), the four-hour jaunt will roll through downtown, Hollywood, Echo Park and the eastern San Fernando Valley exhuming more than two dozen nightmarish tales, including that of a lady dope dealer found with her eyes gouged out on Echo Park’s Lovers’ Lane, and the mysterious murder of a Hollywood Boulevard candy store clerk.

But it’s not all passive entertainment: At certain points along the route, passengers will be cast by creepy tour guide Crimebo the Crime Clown in staged re-creations of such colorful incidents as the “Bat Man” murder.

“That was a bizarre case that happened in Echo Park in the 1920s,” recounts Esotouric cofounder Kim Cooper. “This housewife named Dolly Oesterreich had been carrying on an affair with some guy named Otto Sanhuber, that she’d met when he was 17 and she was in her 30s. She kept him hidden in the attic of the home she shared with her husband -- he would come out after the husband left for work.”

Amazingly, this arrangement carried on for an entire decade. “Apparently the husband drank a lot,” chuckles Michael Perrick, Crimebo’s alter ego. But one day in 1922, hearing the Oesterreichs embroiled in a vicious quarrel, Sanhuber burst out of the attic and shot his lover’s husband dead.

“I’ll have some of the passengers put on silly costumes -- tiny policeman helmets, or a bathrobe for Mr. Oesterreich -- and then the Crimebo Players will reenact the story on the front lawn of the house where it all happened,” Perrick says.

Won’t the current occupants of the house mind? “No, they’re really cool about it,” he says. “They might even come out to greet us.”

-- Pauline.Oconnor@latimes.com

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HALLOWEEN HORRORS CRIME BUS TOUR

WHERE: Departs from the Lincoln Heights/Gold Line Metro station.

WHEN: 11 a.m. Sunday

PRICE: $55

INFO: (310) 995-4591; www.esotouric.com