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TV Shows That Drove People To KILL... · The conspiracy

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Speaker 1: Most of us can binge a dark show, shake it off,
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Speaker 1: and go back to our normal lives. But every once
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Speaker 1: in a while, someone watches something that doesn't just entertain them,
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Speaker 1: it awakens them. They don't see the story as made up.
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Speaker 1: They see it as a blueprint, a set of instructions,
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Speaker 1: and what happens next feels less like a crime and
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Speaker 1: more like a scene playing out exactly as they saw
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Speaker 1: it on screen. And in today's video, you'll meet three people,
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Speaker 1: each from a different walk of life, but all were
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Speaker 1: drawn to the same disturbing idea that violence on a
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Speaker 1: screen wasn't enough. They wanted to feel it, recreate it,
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Speaker 1: perfect it, and the stories that they left behind blurred
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Speaker 1: the line between imitation and obsession. These are shows that
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Speaker 1: inspired killings, crime, conspiracy, cults, serial killers, and murder, all
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Speaker 1: things that I love to consume and I know you
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Speaker 1: do too, You sick, twisted, beautiful, intellectually minded freak. Hey,
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Speaker 1: we're talking about just that, Three killers that were inspired
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Speaker 1: by TV shows or movies specifically, So, without further ado,
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Speaker 1: let's unbaffled our seat belts, go mock five down the highway,
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Speaker 1: slam on the brakes, and bust through this windshield into
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Speaker 1: these three bizarre cases together. Stefano Britzi was born on
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Speaker 1: June twenty sixth, nineteen sixty six in a small Italian
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Speaker 1: town of San Marcello Pistoiesi, and his upbringing was rooted
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Speaker 1: in Catholic tradition. So his family was deeply religious, and
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Speaker 1: one of his uncles was even a priest, so Steffano
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Speaker 1: was naturally expected to follow a similar path of faith
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Speaker 1: and structure. From an early age, Stefano felt different. He
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Speaker 1: discovered he was gay at the age of fifteen, and
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Speaker 1: he would hide his sexuality for the fear of what
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Speaker 1: people close.
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Speaker 2: To him would think.
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Speaker 1: Because, naturally growing up in a very strict religious household,
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Speaker 1: he was scared that they would disown him and think
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Speaker 1: less of him, and to make matters kind of worse
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Speaker 1: for himself, he started to become intellectually interested in Satanism
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Speaker 1: to further reject his family's Christian values. So outside he
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Speaker 1: seemed pretty normal, but inside he was clearly struggling, and
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Speaker 1: as he would develop, he gravitated towards philosophy, art, and
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Speaker 1: later technology. He would study philosophy at university and then
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Speaker 1: he would slowly pivot to the rising world of computer science,
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Speaker 1: and he would eventually become a very proficient web developer,
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Speaker 1: and in time that skill set would land him a
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Speaker 1: job in one of the most competitive cities on Earth, London, London,
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Speaker 1: England to be specific, terrible London accent, but he would
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Speaker 1: secure a very high paying position as a developer for
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Speaker 1: Morergan Stanley, a major global finance firm. So to the
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Speaker 1: outside world he was a success stor, an Italian immigrant
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Speaker 1: working at a prestigious job and living very comfortably in
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Speaker 1: a modern flat in South London. But beneath the surface,
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Speaker 1: Steffano was disintegrating because while working in London, Stefano would
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Speaker 1: unfortunately become addicted to methanfetamine. But his descent into meth
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Speaker 1: and fintamine and his addiction was kind of quiet at first.
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Speaker 1: He would occasionally recreationally use it with his friends, but
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Speaker 1: the drug would eventually take complete control of Steffano as
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Speaker 1: they do don't do drugs kids, and it wasn't long
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Speaker 1: before Stefano was fully immersed in London's chem sex subculture,
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Speaker 1: basically a scene defined by long drug fueled encounters, often
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Speaker 1: with strangers met through dating apps like Grinder, which Steffano
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Speaker 1: used frequently, and his addiction would spiral so far out
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Speaker 1: of control that he would lose his job at Morgan
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Speaker 1: Stanley in twenty fourteen, and without structure, his life life
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Speaker 1: just became completely unrecognizable and his drug and sex addiction
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Speaker 1: would just run rampant. And it was around this time
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Speaker 1: that Steffano would become obsessed with the television show Breaking Bad.
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Speaker 1: Same though, but not the sex and the drugs part.
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Speaker 1: But Breaking Bad's a really great show. But unlike me,
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Speaker 1: he didn't just enjoy the characters and the fantastic writing.
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Speaker 1: He identified a lot with Walter Quite, a once overlooked
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Speaker 1: man with quiet intellect who transformed himself into something extremely powerful.
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Speaker 1: So his story like kind of aligned with Walter White.
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Speaker 1: So he saw himself in Walter White. So Stefano would
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Speaker 1: binge watch the series over and over again. Not unlike myself,
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Speaker 1: but we are different people. But he focused not on
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Speaker 1: the dramatic arcs or moral conflicts. Instead, he would focus
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Speaker 1: on the chemistry, the methods, the violence, and particularly the
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Speaker 1: now infamous scene where Walter solves a body in acid.
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Speaker 1: And actually it wasn't Walter that dissolved the body and acid.
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Speaker 1: It was actually Jesse, but it was Walter's idea to
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Speaker 1: dissolve the body and acid to get rid of it completely.
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Speaker 1: And the whole scene revolves around Jesse going to shop
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Speaker 1: for specific barrels that you could put this.
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Speaker 2: Acid in and it wouldn't wreck the barrel.
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Speaker 1: But he ends up just being lazy and putting the
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Speaker 1: acid in the bathtub and the body in the bathtub,
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Speaker 1: and then actually the bathtub ends up going through the
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Speaker 1: ceiling with the body, but the body is completely dissolved,
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Speaker 1: so there's just blood everywhere, and it's just a crazy scene.
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Speaker 1: If you haven't watched Breaking Bad, what do you do it?
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Speaker 1: You should watch the show. It's a good show. It's
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Speaker 1: a good show.
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Speaker 2: But I digress.
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Speaker 1: So, like I was saying, he would pinpoint on this
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Speaker 1: specific scene and you could see where this is going.
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Speaker 1: So in April of twenty sixteen, Stefano took that step
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Speaker 1: that blurred the line between fan fiction and reality. So,
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Speaker 1: using Grinder, the dating app that he used frequently, he
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Speaker 1: messaged a man named Gordon Semple, a fifty nine year
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Speaker 1: old officer with the Metropolitan Police, and Gordon had worked
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Speaker 1: with Scotland Yard and had a long respected career in
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Speaker 1: law enforcement. He was known to be very discreet, especially
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Speaker 1: about his private life, and often enjoyed using dating apps
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Speaker 1: like Grinder, and on the first of April twenty sixteen,
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Speaker 1: Gordon would arrive at Stefano's flat on Southwark Street for
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Speaker 1: what was supposed to be a casual encounter, and what
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Speaker 1: happens inside the apartment on the stay is only known
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Speaker 1: from Stefano's account. So the two had planned a group
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Speaker 1: sex party Yeah awesome, inviting other men to join in
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Speaker 1: the fun, and one such person even showed up, but
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Speaker 1: was turned away by Steffano, who said that the party
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Speaker 1: was canceled. Little diddito, he dodged a major bullet. So
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Speaker 1: after Steffano and Gordon enjoyed each other's company as you'd do,
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Speaker 1: Steffano would take it a step further and strangle Gordon,
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Speaker 1: and he later would claim in court that during a
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Speaker 1: drug fueled session, things just escalated and Gordon just died
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Speaker 1: accidentally during what he described as a sex game gone wrong,
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Speaker 1: and he just insisted that it was intentional. Yeah, man,
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Speaker 1: I hate when that happens. I hate when I'm you know,
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Speaker 1: having fun with my partner and accidentally strangle them to death.
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Speaker 1: What it's like these people think people are stupid. I
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Speaker 1: just don't even understand. And also because what Stefano did
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Speaker 1: next did not support his claim at all, because instead
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Speaker 1: of you know, calling for help, he left Gordon's body
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Speaker 1: lying on his apartment floor for days, and then, after
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Speaker 1: thinking about what he's gonna do, Steffano began the process
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Speaker 1: of dismembering him, and on April fifth, Steffano was caught
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Speaker 1: on film purchasing cleaning products, buckets and more to dispose
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Speaker 1: of Gordon's body, just like he had seen in Breaking Bad,
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Speaker 1: But unlike the show, it didn't work cleanly, and although
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Speaker 1: in the show the bathtub ended up falling through the
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Speaker 1: floor sorts wasn't necessarily clean. It did work in disposing
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Speaker 1: of the body, but for Stefano it didn't. Basically, he
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Speaker 1: filled his apartment with toxic fumes and the acid failed
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Speaker 1: to fully break down Gordon's body and parts of Gordon
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Speaker 1: were scattered through the flat, including even in a cooking pot,
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Speaker 1: and during the trial, forensic examiners found a partially cooked
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Speaker 1: human rib with clear signs of bite marks on it,
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Speaker 1: indicating that Brizzie had attempted to eat part of his victim.
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Speaker 1: Which did not happen in the show. He went a
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Speaker 1: little off script with that. A just an insane, insane.
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Speaker 2: Horrible, horrible thing.
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Speaker 1: Just to think that this guy went from you know,
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Speaker 1: a very successful job, had everything in life to being
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Speaker 1: a methmphetamine drug fueled six addict cannibal is crazy. And
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Speaker 1: during all this, during him trying to dispose of Gordon's body,
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Speaker 1: basically Gordon Semple's partner and friends had begun to worry
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Speaker 1: because he's been missing for five days. At this point,
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Speaker 1: he hadn't returned home, he hadn't returned to work, and
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Speaker 1: every call that went out to him went unanswered. And
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Speaker 1: this is also when the smell began to leak through
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Speaker 1: Stefano's apartment building and neighbors would first notice it in
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Speaker 1: the hallway and it was a very harsh chemical scent
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Speaker 1: mixed with something foul and as we know.
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Speaker 2: It was Gordon's decomposing body.
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Speaker 1: So his neighbors would obviously complain to building management, who
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Speaker 1: would then in turn to contact authorities. And on April seventh,
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Speaker 1: six whole days after Gordon went missing, police entered Stefano's
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Speaker 1: flat and inside they found a scene straight out of
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Speaker 1: a horror film or a breaking bad episode. There were
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Speaker 1: body parts submerged in acid, bleach and chemicals scattered everywhere,
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Speaker 1: and a pot on the stove with body parts in
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Speaker 1: it as well, and a man who appeared to be
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Speaker 1: completely calm, shirtless in pink briefs and high, just sitting
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Speaker 1: amongst it all. It was just a horrifying scene to
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Speaker 1: think of. And at first he allegedly claimed that Satan
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Speaker 1: told him to do it. Ah man, I hate and
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Speaker 1: that happens. But he later tried to minimize the crime
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Speaker 1: and he would just say that it was just a
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Speaker 1: giant accident. Whoops, didn't mean to go to the store
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Speaker 1: and purchase hundreds of dollars of dismembering tools and chemical
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Speaker 1: acid to get rid of the body and not own
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Speaker 1: up to it. Oopsie Daisy just tripped into their don't
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Speaker 1: know what happened. I don't know, officer, But yeah, he
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Speaker 1: claimed he panicked and only dismembered the body to hide
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Speaker 1: what he done. Oh, so a crime, So you committed
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Speaker 1: a crime. But obviously investigators aren't stupid and they weren't convinced,
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Speaker 1: and they would find Gordon's DNA on utensils and inside
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Speaker 1: the cooking pot and they would also find evidence of
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Speaker 1: Stefano purchasing buckets, gloves, and chemicals as we know, and
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Speaker 1: they would even recover texts and online searches that suggested premeditation,
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Speaker 1: not panic. He was searching up, you know, how to
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Speaker 1: get rid of a body basically, which is just how.
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Speaker 2: To get caught. One oh one, What are you doing? Man?
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Speaker 1: But thank god he was stupid as hell and Stefano
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Speaker 1: Brizzy would be charged with murder and brought to trial
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Speaker 1: on October of twenty sixteen, and his defense held the
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Speaker 1: story that Gordon's death had been an accident somehow, but
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Speaker 1: the jury naturally rejected that version of events, and in
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Speaker 1: November of twenty sixteen and Brizzy was convicted of murder,
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Speaker 1: and in December he was sentenced to life in prison
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Speaker 1: with a minimum of twenty four years, which I don't
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Speaker 1: think is enough. But he wouldn't serve even one year
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Speaker 1: because just a few months later, on February fifth, twenty seventeen,
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Speaker 1: Steffano was found hanging in his cell at Belmarsh Prison.
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Speaker 2: He had taken his.
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Speaker 1: Own life, took the easy way out, piece of shit,
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Speaker 1: and an inquest later revealed he'd actually made several slewer
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Speaker 1: slide attempts in the weeks prior, including ingesting, cleaning fluid,
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Speaker 1: and other substances. So the man who once admired a
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Speaker 1: fictional meth kingpin had followed the script all the way
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Speaker 1: to the end spoiler alert, murder, dismemberment, disposal, and ultimately
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Speaker 1: self destruction. But Steffano wasn't the last to confuse fiction
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Speaker 1: for purpose, because while he tried to emulate Walter White,
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Speaker 1: the next man on this list modeled himself after serial
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Speaker 1: killer that didn't even exist. Mark Andrew Twitchell was born
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Speaker 1: July fourth, nineteen seventy nine in Edmonton, Alberta, a place
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Speaker 1: more known for snowstorms and oil sands than crime thrillers
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Speaker 1: or film sets. And from a young age, Mark was
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Speaker 1: obsessed with storytelling, whether it was science fiction, comic books,
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Speaker 1: or movies, anything that transported him out of his quiet,
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Speaker 1: suburban life. So he had this creative spark within him
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Speaker 1: that he was just ready to use. And in high
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Speaker 1: school he was known as the movie guy because he
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Speaker 1: was always writing and filming stuff, and he did really
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Speaker 1: pursue this passion seriously. He would even go so far
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Speaker 1: as to enroll in a radio and Television Arts program
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Speaker 1: at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, and in two
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Speaker 1: thousand he would graduate with a degree and a plan.
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Speaker 1: He wanted to become a Hollywood filmmaker, but Edmonton wasn't
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Speaker 1: exactly a launch pad for the film industry. Little Canadian fact.
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Speaker 1: A lot of people call it dead Minton. That's how
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Speaker 1: fun it is. Other no hate to all my Edmonton people.
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Speaker 1: I love you all right, but I've been there, been
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Speaker 1: there a few times. Not a lot going on, but
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Speaker 1: still Mark wanted to make it work. So he would
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Speaker 1: shoot commercials and he would write short films, and he
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Speaker 1: would gain some minor recognition when he directed a Star
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Speaker 1: Wars fan film titled Secrets of the Rebellion, and what
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Speaker 1: started as a passion project somehow scored actor Jeremy Bullock,
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Speaker 1: who played Boba Fette in the original Star Wars films,
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Speaker 1: for a cameo, which is insane. Also sorry if I
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Speaker 1: said his name wrong. So among Star Wars fans, this
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Speaker 1: short film made some noise, but unfortunately not quite enough
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Speaker 1: to crack through the mainstream success. But Mark took this
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Speaker 1: positive feedback really seriously, and this passion for filmmaking just
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Speaker 1: fueled his performance, but he knew that if he wanted
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Speaker 1: to make it, he needed to write about what he loved,
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Speaker 1: and right then there was one show that had completely
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Speaker 1: captured his full attention, Dexter, which is also one of
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Speaker 1: my favorite shows. They're starting to make me not like
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Speaker 1: my favorite shows. I don't like this, but Dexter also
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Speaker 1: good show.
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Speaker 2: You should watch it. But as we know, Mark wasn't
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Speaker 2: just a fan of the show. He was obsessed.
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Speaker 1: He admired the duality of the main character, a seemingly
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Speaker 1: normal man hiding a violent alter ego. Because Dexter Morgan
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Speaker 1: wasn't just any serial killer, he had a purpose behind
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Speaker 1: his killings. He would only kill the guilty. Basically, he
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Speaker 1: was a vigilante.
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Speaker 2: He would only.
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Speaker 1: Kill people that were bad quote unquote, and he was
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Speaker 1: extremely methodical and even had rules and rituals. And he
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Speaker 1: also had a kill room, or he would make a
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Speaker 1: portable kill room if you will.
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Speaker 2: Tonight's the Night, Tonight's the night.
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Speaker 1: But Mark would watch every single episode. He would study
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Speaker 1: the details and then began writing a script of his own.
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Speaker 1: It was a story about a man who lures victims
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Speaker 1: through online dating and would eventually kill them in a
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Speaker 1: plastic covered garage a Dexter signature. But this wasn't fiction,
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Speaker 1: not entirely, because in September two thousand and eight, Mark
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Speaker 1: would rent out a detached garage behind a house in
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Speaker 1: Edmonton and he began converting it into something eerily familiar
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Speaker 1: to Dexter fans, with plastic sheeting all over the floors, walls,
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Speaker 1: and ceilings. He would also have a table, good lighting,
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Speaker 1: and weapons, and this would be all arranged for one purpose,
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Speaker 1: a controlled and isolated kill. And after he was finished
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Speaker 1: making his kill room, he would then create a fake
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Speaker 1: profile on a dating site called Plenty of Fish, posing
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Speaker 1: as a woman named Sena, and his whole plan was
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Speaker 1: to lure a man back to the garage using directions
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Speaker 1: crafted to hide the actual address, just like a scene
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Speaker 1: from a psychological thriller or like Dexter. So after a
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Speaker 1: few months using his fake profile on Plenty of Fish,
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Speaker 1: he would finally get a bite. On October third, two
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Speaker 1: thousand and eight, Gillis Tetralt, a thirty three year old
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Speaker 1: casino security guard, had recently gone through a very painful
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Speaker 1: breakup and that day he messaged Shina. Within hours and
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Speaker 1: they had arranged to meet up for a movie in
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Speaker 1: a dinner. The directions that Sheena sent were bizarre, and
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Speaker 1: I'll read them to you because they are bizarre. So okay, Friday,
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Speaker 1: if you're coming from the North Groat, get on Calgary
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Speaker 1: Trail and when you get to the south side and
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Speaker 1: jump on white Mud. Then go south on fifty Street,
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Speaker 1: take a right on forty Avenue, and after a block
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Speaker 1: or two, take the very first right into the alley.
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Speaker 1: It's marked by a yellow crosswalk sign to pay attention.
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Speaker 1: Then go left and pull into the only driveway on
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Speaker 1: your left that isn't paved.
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Speaker 2: Lol.
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Speaker 1: Seriously, whoever heard of a driveway that looks like the
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Speaker 1: Amazon whatever? It won't swallow your car. I promise. There's
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Speaker 1: some garbage up against the fence, like an old couch
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Speaker 1: and such, but it might be gone by Friday.
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Speaker 2: Who knows.
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Speaker 1: Like I said, the garage door will be open for
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Speaker 1: you a touch. Don't worry about neighbors thinking you're a burglar.
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Speaker 1: Everyone knows. There's nothing valuable in there dot dot dot
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Speaker 1: except my car of course. OI see you, then, Sina, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: first visible back door coming out of the garage knock away.
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Speaker 1: There's certainly no other driveways along our alley like this one,
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Speaker 1: and the half open car door is a dead giveaway. Lol,
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Speaker 1: see you seven on Friday, like immediately, No what, no address,
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Speaker 1: just ninety five different landmarks to follow like this. It's
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Speaker 1: just red flags all around. But even though he detected
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Speaker 1: there was some red flags, Gillis figured she was just
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Speaker 1: being cautious because you know, being a woman, you don't
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Speaker 1: want to maybe give away your address necessarily. So I
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Speaker 1: guess I could buy that, yeah, because after all, he
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Speaker 1: was a stranger on the internet to Sina. But little
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Speaker 1: did Gillis know that Sina was in a sheet. So
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Speaker 1: that night, Gillis followed the instructions and stepped into the garage,
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Speaker 1: which remember was only opened a touch, so he kind
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Speaker 1: of crawled under the garage and what happened next would
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Speaker 1: feel like a Dexter episode because as Gillis stepped across
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Speaker 1: the plastic floor toward the door that was supposed to
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Speaker 1: lead to Sheena's backyard, he felt something smash into the
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Speaker 1: back of his neck, and that's when he would turn
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Speaker 1: and come face to face with a man in a
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Speaker 1: hockey mask and a stun baton. So the attacker would
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Speaker 1: stun him once and then again driving him to the ground,
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Speaker 1: and when Gillis would try to run naturally, he saw
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Speaker 1: the man pull a gun, but something fell off, so
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Speaker 1: when Gillis grabbed the gun mid struggle, he realized the
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Speaker 1: gun was plastic, and that realization would get Gillis an edge,
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Speaker 1: so fueled by adrenaline, he would fight back with his life.
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Speaker 1: So Gillis would punch back, only to realize he was
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Speaker 1: weakened by the stun baton, and Mark would then punch
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Speaker 1: him repeatedly in the head and would attempt to grab
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Speaker 1: his jacket. So Gillis found a moment between the beatings
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Speaker 1: he would allow Mark to think that he got hold
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Speaker 1: of him, only to slip out of the jacket completely
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Speaker 1: like those toddlers when they're having a tantrum and they
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Speaker 1: could just slip out. So he would slip out of
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Speaker 1: the jacket and he would roll under the garage door
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Speaker 1: to safety, or so he thought. This energy was still
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Speaker 1: sapped from the stun baton, so when he stood up
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Speaker 1: to run, he immediately fell back down, just horror movie situation,
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Speaker 1: and Mark would grab his leg and pull him back
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Speaker 1: into the garage, but somehow he managed to get enough
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Speaker 1: strength to roll back out of the garage once more,
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Speaker 1: hop into his truck and speed off, So Gillis would
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Speaker 1: narrowly escape with his life, but he would tell no
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Speaker 1: one because he was too embarrassed and ashamed that he'd
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Speaker 1: fallen for an obvious setup.
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Speaker 2: So he would just.
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Speaker 1: Never call the police because he was just embarrassed and
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Speaker 1: this would cause another person to lose their life because
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Speaker 1: a week later, Mark would try again. So on October tenth,
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Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, thirty eight year old Johnny Altinger
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Speaker 1: received a message from a woman named Jen on the
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Speaker 1: same dating site Plenty of Fish, full blonde, and super friendly,
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Speaker 1: and within a few hours of talking back and forth,
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Speaker 1: they agreed to meet. So, just like Gillis, Johnny was
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Speaker 1: given odd instructions. He was basically run through the same
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Speaker 1: but rigamarole, follow a series of landmarks, enter through a garage,
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Speaker 1: and walk into the backyard where she'd be waiting. But
20:18
Speaker 1: Johnny wasn't quite as trusting as Gillis, so before leaving,
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Speaker 1: he forwarded the directions to a friend with a note
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Speaker 1: that jokingly read, if I go missing, this is.
20:28
Speaker 2: Where I'm going.
20:29
Speaker 1: So Johnny would get ready, get in his car and
20:31
Speaker 1: go leave for his date, but unfortunately he would never
20:35
Speaker 1: come back and he would not.
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Speaker 2: Be as lucky as Gillis.
20:38
Speaker 1: It's believed that Johnny followed the same instructions and he
20:42
Speaker 1: would go underneath the garage door and Mark would do
20:45
Speaker 1: the same thing. He would hit Johnny over the head,
20:48
Speaker 1: but this time with the pipe, but instead of letting
20:51
Speaker 1: him react like he let Gillis react, he would immediately
20:54
Speaker 1: start repeatedly stabbing him, and he would follow that up
20:58
Speaker 1: by dismembering Johnny's body afterwards. So a few days after
21:02
Speaker 1: Johnny's death, friends would receive an email from Johnny's account
21:05
Speaker 1: claiming that he had met someone amazing and was going
21:08
Speaker 1: away on a nice long tropical vacation. It would read, Hey, there,
21:13
Speaker 1: I've met an extraordinary woman named Jen who has offered
21:17
Speaker 1: to take me on a nice long tropical vacation. We'll
21:20
Speaker 1: be staying in her winter home in Costa Rica. Phone
21:22
Speaker 1: number to follow soon. I won't be back in town
21:25
Speaker 1: until December tenth, but I will be checking my email periodically.
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Speaker 1: See you around the holidays, Johnny. Just the weirdest email.
21:33
Speaker 1: If I received an email like that from literally anyone
21:36
Speaker 1: I knew, I would assume that something fucking terrible happened
21:39
Speaker 1: to them, and immediately people realized that something felt off.
21:43
Speaker 1: The tone wasn't his at all, and he didn't sound excited.
21:46
Speaker 1: It sounded like it was completely scripted, and police were
21:49
Speaker 1: immediately notified for a so called writer. Mark completely fucking
21:54
Speaker 1: missed the mark on the stupid email, and thank god
21:56
Speaker 1: he did. And luckily, since Johnny had forwarded those instructions
22:00
Speaker 1: on finding the place to his friend, police would also
22:03
Speaker 1: have these instructions and they would be led directly to
22:07
Speaker 1: the garage where they would find Mark's dexter like kill room.
22:11
Speaker 1: And they would obviously go up to Mark being like,
22:13
Speaker 1: what the hell, what the hell happened, and he would
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Speaker 1: say that it was just being used for a movie
22:18
Speaker 1: called House of Cards, in which a masked figure lures
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Speaker 1: men into a garage for a date prior to killing them,
22:25
Speaker 1: basically giving them his mo o. But a later search
22:28
Speaker 1: of Mark Twitchell's laptop revealed a deleted file titled SK Confessions.
22:33
Speaker 2: He wrote out his.
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Speaker 1: Confessions because it was believed to be a short for
22:38
Speaker 1: serial killer Confessions. That's the stupidest fucking asshole, just bitch,
22:45
Speaker 1: just discome of the earth, And luckily forensic text would
22:47
Speaker 1: be able to recover the file, and what they read
22:50
Speaker 1: completely stunned them. It was a document detailing how the
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Speaker 1: narrator lured men to the garage, attacked them, and murdered them,
22:58
Speaker 1: and it would read as such. This story is based
23:01
Speaker 1: on true events. The names and events were altered slightly
23:03
Speaker 1: to protect the guilty. This is the story of my
23:06
Speaker 1: progression into becoming a serial killer. Like anyone just starting
23:09
Speaker 1: out in a new skill, I had a bit of
23:11
Speaker 1: a trial and error in the beginning of my misadventures.
23:14
Speaker 1: Allow me to start from the beginning, and I think
23:16
Speaker 1: you'll see what I mean. I don't remember the exact
23:18
Speaker 1: place and time it was that I decided to become
23:21
Speaker 1: a serial killer, but I remember the sensation that hit
23:24
Speaker 1: me when I committed to the decision. It was a
23:26
Speaker 1: rush of pure euphoria. I felt lighter, less stressed, if
23:29
Speaker 1: you will, at the freedom of the prospect. There was
23:32
Speaker 1: something about urgently exploring my dark side that greatly appealed
23:36
Speaker 1: to me. And I'm such a methodical planner and thinker.
23:39
Speaker 1: The very challenged itself was enticing to behold. This realization
23:43
Speaker 1: was just the last in a series of new discoveries
23:45
Speaker 1: I made about myself. I just knew I was different
23:48
Speaker 1: somehow from the rest of humanity. I feel no such
23:51
Speaker 1: emotions as empathy or sympathy towards others.
23:53
Speaker 2: For example.
23:54
Speaker 1: This was just the beginning of the excerpt of the
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Speaker 1: s CA Confessions. I just love how this fuck asshole
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Speaker 1: thinks he's so different from everybody when he's just watching
24:03
Speaker 1: a show and then copying it verbatim because he has
24:07
Speaker 1: you can't even think of how to be his own person,
24:10
Speaker 1: you know, just a stupid piece of shit. Yeah, it
24:13
Speaker 1: just makes me angry. I don't know, I just they're
24:17
Speaker 1: just waste of oxygen anyway. So this confession ended abruptly
24:21
Speaker 1: after describing the dismemberment and disposal of the second victim, Johnny,
24:26
Speaker 1: which the different name he gave him, and the confession
24:29
Speaker 1: was John Wow. So methodical, so such good writing.
24:36
Speaker 2: Just an idiot.
24:37
Speaker 1: So Mark Twitchell would be arrested on October thirty first,
24:40
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, on Halloween night Trick or Treat,
24:43
Speaker 1: motherfucker zell I gotta say, and Gillis would see this
24:46
Speaker 1: on TV and he would come forward and finally admit
24:49
Speaker 1: what happened to him. In the garage, and his story
24:51
Speaker 1: seemed to match up with the account in the document,
24:54
Speaker 1: you know, the confession that Mark wrote. And in court,
24:57
Speaker 1: the defense claimed the sk confessions wasn't real, just an
25:01
Speaker 1: early draft of a screenplay, but the real life evidence
25:04
Speaker 1: would match completely with the confession, so the jury didn't
25:07
Speaker 1: buy the story, and in April twenty eleven, Mark Twitchell
25:10
Speaker 1: was convicted of first agreed murder. He was sentenced to
25:13
Speaker 1: life in prison with no chance of parole for twenty
25:15
Speaker 1: five years, and to this day, Twitchell maintains the file
25:19
Speaker 1: wasn't real. But amongst the evidence, investigators found something else
25:23
Speaker 1: as well. A Facebook page he had run in character
25:27
Speaker 1: as Dexter Morgan, and he would post updates like we
25:31
Speaker 1: all have a dark side, some darker than others. So
25:34
Speaker 1: this guy wasn't pretending. He was just preparing, but he
25:39
Speaker 1: didn't prepare well enough. So surprise, motherfucker, rotten jail. If
25:43
Speaker 1: you don't know what I'm quoting right now, I'm literally
25:45
Speaker 1: quoting a cop from Dexter, the show Dexter, who thinks
25:48
Speaker 1: Dexter is guilty, which he is, and he says, surprise, motherfucker.
25:51
Speaker 2: Just roll the clips surprise, motherfucker.
25:53
Speaker 1: And that brings us to our last killer. Sarah Edmondson
26:03
Speaker 1: was born into power on July twenty sixth, nineteen seventy six.
26:07
Speaker 1: She was the daughter of Jim Edmondson, a respected judge
26:11
Speaker 1: in Muskogee County, Oklahoma, and her uncle was Drew Edmondson,
26:15
Speaker 1: the state's attorney general, and her grandfather was Ed Edmondson,
26:19
Speaker 1: who had served in the US House of Representatives, and
26:22
Speaker 1: even her great uncle was Oklahoma's governor. So she was
26:25
Speaker 1: born into a family of lawmakers and leaders, and Sarah
26:29
Speaker 1: was naturally expected to follow in the same path with success, structure,
26:33
Speaker 1: and legacy.
26:34
Speaker 2: But from a.
26:35
Speaker 1: Young age, Sarah kind of struggled to keep her footing.
26:38
Speaker 1: She was more sensitive and anxious and prone to emotional spirals,
26:43
Speaker 1: and when she was thirteen she suffered a mental health
26:46
Speaker 1: crisis that actually led her to psychiatric treatment, and then
26:49
Speaker 1: high school would begin and she would spiral even further,
26:52
Speaker 1: and it would kind of start. When her grandfather died.
26:55
Speaker 1: She took it really hard because she was close with him,
26:58
Speaker 1: and then came the slewer slafe of her best friend,
27:01
Speaker 1: and after that, a devastating car crash killed more of
27:05
Speaker 1: her close friends, so she's just going through waves and
27:08
Speaker 1: waves of grief. So by the time she graduated high
27:11
Speaker 1: school in nineteen ninety four, Sarah had lost several people
27:15
Speaker 1: she had loved and at this point she just was
27:17
Speaker 1: a completely different person. And by the time she got
27:20
Speaker 1: to college, she was just kind of drifting, dropping out
27:23
Speaker 1: within her first semester and she would kind of pull
27:26
Speaker 1: away from her high profile family and just found comfort
27:29
Speaker 1: in pure chaos. And this is when she would meet
27:33
Speaker 1: Benjamin Darris. And Benjamin was also from Oklahoma. He was
27:37
Speaker 1: from Telequa, sorry if I'm saying that wrong, a small
27:39
Speaker 1: city not far from Muskogee, but his background was very different.
27:44
Speaker 1: Ben's home life was turbulent to say the least. His
27:47
Speaker 1: father hit him and was an alcoholic, and when Ben
27:51
Speaker 1: was a teenager, his father would die by slewer slide,
27:54
Speaker 1: and like Sarah, he turned to drugs and never finished
27:57
Speaker 1: high school. So different upbringings for both of them, but
27:59
Speaker 1: they both kind of ended up in the same position,
28:02
Speaker 1: just feeling completely lost, not knowing who they were, what.
28:05
Speaker 2: They were supposed to do with their lives.
28:07
Speaker 1: So when Ben and Sarah met, something just clicked, but
28:11
Speaker 1: not in a really romantic or healthy way, it just
28:15
Speaker 1: pure toxic in a way that intensified each.
28:19
Speaker 2: Other's self destruction.
28:20
Speaker 1: They would just share fascination with rebellion, with the idea
28:24
Speaker 1: of breaking free from the expectations of the world around them,
28:28
Speaker 1: and in March of nineteen ninety five, that shared fantasy
28:31
Speaker 1: would turn into something deadly. So they would take a
28:34
Speaker 1: trip and isolate themselves in a cabin in Oklahoma and
28:38
Speaker 1: take acid, and they would watch the very popular, very
28:41
Speaker 1: well known cult classic movie Natural Born Killers, a.
28:45
Speaker 2: Movie I also love that is now ruined. Thanks a lot.
28:49
Speaker 1: And for those of you who don't know, Natural Born
28:51
Speaker 1: Killers is Oliver Stone's famously controversial film about a couple
28:55
Speaker 1: who fall in love and go on a thrill kill
28:58
Speaker 1: murder spree across the amy in Southwest, a film you
29:01
Speaker 1: actually might remember from the last Deep Dive about the
29:04
Speaker 1: world's youngest serial killers. So we got two shout outs
29:07
Speaker 1: to Natural Born Killers. Probably not in the best way though,
29:10
Speaker 1: but again, you know, it's a pretty decent movie. You
29:12
Speaker 1: should watch it. Don't take it seriously though, So the
29:15
Speaker 1: couple wouldn't just watch this once. They would be tripped
29:18
Speaker 1: out on acid and watch it over and.
29:20
Speaker 2: Over and over and over.
29:23
Speaker 1: Again, slowly becoming obsessed with it, obsessed with the idea
29:27
Speaker 1: of it, obsessed with what the couple in the movie
29:30
Speaker 1: was doing. And then after their high would slow down,
29:33
Speaker 1: they would hit the road and they would tell friends
29:35
Speaker 1: that they would be headed to Memphis for a Grateful
29:37
Speaker 1: Dead concert, But that was never the real plan. They
29:40
Speaker 1: were looking for something much darker, something violent. So on
29:45
Speaker 1: March seventh and nineteen ninety five, they arrived in Hernando, Mississippi,
29:49
Speaker 1: and inside a small office near a cotton gin, fifty
29:52
Speaker 1: eight year old William Savage was working alone. He was
29:55
Speaker 1: a very quiet and very well liked man, and he
29:58
Speaker 1: was also a manager and a family man, with literally
30:01
Speaker 1: no enemies, just assault of the earth. But Benjamin Darris
30:04
Speaker 1: would walk into the store and he would shoot him
30:07
Speaker 1: twice in the head at point blank range, with no
30:11
Speaker 1: warning whatsoever, and then chillingly, he would take a piece
30:15
Speaker 1: of William's blood stained shirt as a souvenir. And there
30:18
Speaker 1: wouldn't be any robbery, no motive it was. It was
30:22
Speaker 1: just cold blooded murder. So after he would kill William
30:26
Speaker 1: take a piece of a shirt, he would hop back
30:28
Speaker 1: in the car and the couple would go next to Louisiana,
30:32
Speaker 1: and on March eighth, in a small town in Ponchatula,
30:35
Speaker 1: they would stop at another convenience store, and this time
30:38
Speaker 1: it would be Sarah's turn. She too would walk into
30:41
Speaker 1: the store with no warning at all and point a
30:44
Speaker 1: gun at thirty five year old clerk Patsy Buyers and
30:48
Speaker 1: pull the trigger and the bullet would completely shatter Patsy's spine,
30:52
Speaker 1: but luckily Patsy would survive, but was left permanently paralyzed
30:57
Speaker 1: from the neck down. Sarah completely fucked up a humans
31:03
Speaker 1: being life like these again just waste of oxygen, piece
31:08
Speaker 1: of shit monsters, And after shooting Patsy, Sarah grabbed money
31:12
Speaker 1: from the register and ran out the door. So both
31:14
Speaker 1: shootings just appeared random. There wasn't any connection and there
31:18
Speaker 1: was no warning at all. But as we know, they
31:21
Speaker 1: weren't random. They were basically just a twisted performance based
31:25
Speaker 1: off of a movie that they had watched several times
31:28
Speaker 1: days before. So after these shootings, Benjamin and Sarah returned
31:32
Speaker 1: to Oklahoma, but the story wouldn't stay buried for long
31:34
Speaker 1: and the FBI would receive a tip and within weeks
31:38
Speaker 1: both were arrested, thankfully, and the investigation also thankfully moved
31:42
Speaker 1: very quickly because the evidence was damning, and soon, of course,
31:46
Speaker 1: the media would catch wind of the story. Two teenagers,
31:49
Speaker 1: one the daughter of a judge and the other a
31:51
Speaker 1: drifter from a broken home, had gone on a real
31:54
Speaker 1: life murder spring allegedly inspired by a Hollywood film, just
31:58
Speaker 1: something for media to eat up, and it would just
32:01
Speaker 1: explode across headlines and national news, and in court the
32:05
Speaker 1: prosecutors would lay out a very chilling timeline with first
32:08
Speaker 1: the drugs, the obsession with natural born killers, the souvenirs,
32:12
Speaker 1: and just the fucking senselessness. And after everything went down,
32:16
Speaker 1: Benjamin would actually plead guilty to the murder of William
32:19
Speaker 1: Savage and he would be sentenced to life in prison
32:21
Speaker 1: without the possibility of parole in Mississippi, and he would
32:24
Speaker 1: also receive a thirty five year sentence in Louisiana for
32:27
Speaker 1: his role in the shooting of Patsy Buyers because he
32:29
Speaker 1: wasn't accomplice. And Sarah Edmondson would also plead guilty to
32:33
Speaker 1: armed robbery with attempted second degree murder and a legal
32:36
Speaker 1: use of a firearm, and she would be sentenced to
32:38
Speaker 1: thirty years in prison only serving eleven so in twenty ten,
32:42
Speaker 1: Sarah Edmondson was released on parole and she would return
32:45
Speaker 1: to Oklahoma where she still lives under strict conditions, but
32:48
Speaker 1: her parole is scheduled to end in twenty twenty five
32:51
Speaker 1: this year, and Benjamin Daris remains behind bars, serving a
32:55
Speaker 1: life sentence with no possibility of release, which I think
32:59
Speaker 1: is probably good. But the case didn't just end in court.
33:02
Speaker 1: Patsy Buyers actually filed a civil lawsuit not just against
33:06
Speaker 1: the shooters, but against director Oliver Stone in Time Warner,
33:10
Speaker 1: the makers of Natural Born Killers, and she claimed that
33:14
Speaker 1: the film incited violence and that it gave Sarah and
33:17
Speaker 1: Ben a script to follow essentially. But Patsy would unfortunately
33:21
Speaker 1: die one day before her scheduled appearance in court because
33:26
Speaker 1: she allegedly had cancer and was unable to feel any
33:29
Speaker 1: of the symptoms, which is so heartbreaking because she couldn't
33:33
Speaker 1: feel anything from the neck down.
33:34
Speaker 2: Just terrible.
33:38
Speaker 1: So the case was naturally dismissed and the court ruled
33:41
Speaker 1: that the filmmakers couldn't be held liable for their actions
33:44
Speaker 1: of the viewers, which, in my opinion, I mean, it
33:47
Speaker 1: makes sense. I know in a lot of media we
33:49
Speaker 1: glorify and romanticize killers.
33:52
Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, it is fiction.
33:55
Speaker 1: I mean, you could put that up against video games,
33:57
Speaker 1: TV shows, movies, just anything in media.
34:00
Speaker 2: Books.
34:00
Speaker 1: You just need to have the wherewithal to know that
34:03
Speaker 1: this isn't real and it's not a script to follow.
34:06
Speaker 1: But do I think that the romanticizing of killers is productive?
34:13
Speaker 2: No?
34:14
Speaker 1: I don't think so. But I don't think we can
34:16
Speaker 1: take incidences like this and pin it against the people
34:19
Speaker 1: that wrote the characters. So the question still lingers, where
34:23
Speaker 1: does art and influence begin? For Sarah Edmondson and Benjamin Daris,
34:29
Speaker 1: that line wasn't just crossed, it was obliterated. But stories
34:34
Speaker 1: have always shaped human behavior. They reflect who we are
34:37
Speaker 1: and sometimes who we want to become. And in most cases,
34:40
Speaker 1: even the darkest fiction serves as a sort of release,
34:44
Speaker 1: a safe place to explore fear, violence, and power without
34:48
Speaker 1: real world consequences, just exploring curiosity. But sometimes those stories
34:54
Speaker 1: don't land the same for everyone, and for some they
34:57
Speaker 1: become more than just entertainment. It came a spark that
35:01
Speaker 1: struck minds already fractured by trauma, addiction, and delusion. So
35:06
Speaker 1: these aren't just stories of copycat crimes. They're reminders of
35:10
Speaker 1: how powerful media can be in the wrong context, especially
35:14
Speaker 1: when it meets people who are already teetering on that edge.
35:17
Speaker 1: But let me know what you think down in the
35:20
Speaker 1: comments below. Also, let me know what other cases you
35:22
Speaker 1: want me to dive deep into down in the comments below.
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Speaker 2: I really appreciate you guys.
35:27
Speaker 1: If you want to watch something a little lighter, I
35:30
Speaker 1: do have a second channel. It's called call Me Chris
35:32
Speaker 1: two if you want to check that out. I also
35:34
Speaker 1: have a new channel with Selena's spooky boot called Can't Sleep.
35:38
Speaker 2: It's not too spooky. It's a little more uppity than
35:41
Speaker 2: this kind of stuff.
35:42
Speaker 1: If, in fact, you can't sleep after these stories, which
35:45
Speaker 1: I would very much understand.
35:47
Speaker 2: And if you want.
35:47
Speaker 1: Something a little sweet, you can go over to sour
35:49
Speaker 1: dot gg and grab yourself some candy, some candy that
35:53
Speaker 1: I made for.
35:54
Speaker 2: You, baby.
35:54
Speaker 1: But with all that, I really appreciate you watching the
35:57
Speaker 1: video and I will see you all beautiful face in
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Speaker 1: the next one.
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Speaker 2: Okay, be safe up there.
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Speaker 1: Bye.