Description
The disturbing phenomenon of copycat killers has blurred the line between entertainment and reality for decades. In one of the most chilling true crime cases, Mark Andrew Twitchell, an aspiring serial killer from Canada, became obsessed with the hit TV series Dexter, modeling his crimes after television's infamous vigilante.
On this episode of Weird History Presents: Graveyard Shift, we take a look at the bizarre and horrifying story of how a TV antihero influenced a real-life killer, the shocking evidence investigators uncovered, and why the case became one of the most infamous examples of life imitating art.
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