In today's episode, we dive into how these killers weren't just entertained by watching a show... but they were inspired.
Chapter 1: What TV shows inspired real-life crimes?
Most of us can binge a dark show, shake it off, and go back to our normal lives. But every once in a while, someone watches something that doesn't just entertain them. It awakens them. They don't see the story as made up. They see it as a blueprint, a set of instructions. And what happens next feels less like a crime and more like a scene playing out exactly as they saw it on screen.
And in today's video, you'll meet three people. each from a different walk of life. But all were drawn to the same disturbing idea, that violence on a screen wasn't enough. They wanted to feel it, recreate it, perfect it. And the stories that they left behind blur the line between imitation and obsession. These are shows that inspired killings. Crime!
Conspiracy, cults, serial killers, and murder. All things that I love to consume and I know you do too, you sick, twisted, beautiful, intellectually-minded freak. And today we are talking about just that. Three killers that were inspired by TV shows or movies specifically.
So without further ado, let's unbuckle our seat belts, go Mach 5 down the highway, slam on the brakes, and bust through this windshield into these three bizarre cases together. Stefano Brizzi was born on June 26th, 1966 in a small Italian town of San Marcello Pistoiesi. And his upbringing was rooted in Catholic tradition. So his family was deeply religious. And one of his uncles was even a priest.
So Stefano was naturally expected to follow a similar path of faith and structure. But from an early age, Stefano felt...
different he discovered he was gay at the age of 15 and he would hide his sexuality for the fear of what people close to him would think because naturally growing up in a very strict religious household he was scared that they would disown him and think less of him and to make matters kind of worse for himself he started to become intellectually interested in satanism to further reject his family's christian values so outside he seemed pretty normal but inside he was clearly struggling
And as he would develop, he gravitated towards philosophy, art, and later, technology. He would study philosophy at university, and then he would slowly pivot to the rising world of computer science. And he would eventually become a very proficient web developer. And in time, that skill set would land him a job in one of the most competitive cities on Earth, London.
London, England, to be specific. That was a terrible London accent. But he would secure a very high-paying position as a developer for Morgan Stanley, a major global finance firm. So to the outside world, he was a success story. An Italian immigrant working at a prestigious job and living very comfortably in a modern flat in South London. But beneath the surface, Stefano was... disintegrating.
Because while working in London, Stefano would unfortunately become addicted to methamphetamine. But his descent into methamphetamine and his addiction was kind of quiet at first. He would occasionally recreationally use it with his friends, but the drug would eventually take complete control of Stefano. As they do. Don't do drugs, kids.
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Chapter 2: Who was Stefano Brizzi and how did Breaking Bad influence him?
just an early draft of a screenplay, but the real life evidence would match completely with the confession. So the jury didn't buy the story. And in April, 2011, Mark Twitchell was convicted of first degree murder. He was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years. And to this day, Twitchell maintains the file wasn't real.
But amongst the evidence, investigators found something else as well. A Facebook page he had run in character as Dexter Morgan. And he would post updates like, we all have a dark side, some darker than others. So this guy wasn't pretending. He was just pretending.
preparing but he didn't prepare well enough so surprise motherfucker rotten jail if you don't know what i'm quoting right now i'm literally quoting a cop from dexter the show dexter who thinks dexter is guilty which he is and he says surprise motherfucker just roll the clip surprise motherfucker and that brings us to our last killer Sarah Edmondson was born into power on July 26th, 1976.
She was the daughter of Jim Edmondson, a respected judge in Muskogee County, Oklahoma. And her uncle was Drew Edmondson, the state's attorney general. And her grandfather was Ed Edmondson, who had served in the US House of Representatives. And even her great uncle was Oklahoma's governor. So she was born into a family of lawmakers and leaders.
And Sarah was naturally expected to follow in the same path with success, structure, and legacy. But from a young age, Sarah kind of struggled to keep her footing. She was more sensitive and anxious and prone to emotional spirals. And when she was 13, she suffered a mental health crisis that actually led her to psychiatric treatment.
And then high school would begin and she would spiral even further. And it would kind of start when her grandfather died. She took it really hard because she was close with him. And then came the slower slide of her best friend. And after that, a devastating car crash killed more of her close friends. So she's just going through waves and waves of grief.
So by the time she graduated high school in 1994, Sarah had lost several people she had loved. And by the time she got to college, she was just kind of drifting, dropping out within her first semester. And she would kind of pull away from her high profile family and just found comfort in pure chaos. And this is when she would meet Benjamin Derris. And Benjamin was also from Oklahoma.
He was from Tahlequah, sorry if I'm saying that wrong, a small city not far from Muskogee. But his background was very different. Ben's home life was turbulent to say the least. His father hit him and was an alcoholic. And when Ben was a teenager, his father would die by sluice slide. And like Sarah, he turned to drugs and never finished high school.
So different upbringings for both of them, but they both kind of ended up in the same position, just feeling completely lost. not knowing who they were or what they were supposed to do with their lives. So when Ben and Sarah met, something just clicked, but not in a really romantic or healthy way, just pure toxic, in a way that intensified each other's self-destruction.
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