Episode 254: The Friday the 13th Murder (The Murder of Sharon Gregory)

Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Inhuman Podcast

True Crime

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

What exactly happened to Sharon Gregory on October 24, 1988 may never be known, but one thing is clear: her killer had an obsession with horror movies. Did Mark Branch have a psychotic break and think he was part of the Friday the 13th franchise? Was he simply obsessed with gore and wanted to experience it for himself? Or was there another motive behind this horrific crime? This is the story of the murder of Sharon Gregory, a psychology student in Greenfield, Massachusetts who was senselessly killed right before Halloween 1988.

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0:00.0	What's up you guys? I'm Haley and I'm Andrea and this is Inhuman a true crime
0:05.4	podcast. Oh, Since we're apparently on some sort of kick of talking about a story
0:35.0	a story dubbed the Friday the 13th murder.
0:38.0	Interesting.
0:42.0	Okay.
0:43.0	This is not called the Friday the 13th murder because it took place on a Friday the 13th, but because of the
0:48.4	killer's obsession with the movie franchise.
0:51.0	Ooh.
0:53.8	So what exactly happened to Sharon Gregory on October 24th, 1988
0:58.3	may never be known, but there's one thing that is clear.
1:02.2	Her killer had an obsession with horror movies.
1:05.0	This is the story of the murder of Sharon Gregory.
1:10.0	Friday the 13th is a franchise of horror films made up of 12 films and other media
1:18.8	the films which were released from May 1980 through February 2009,
1:23.8	center around Jason Vorhese, a man who was thought
1:28.2	to have drowned at Camp Crystal Lake as a boy
1:30.8	due to the negligence of the camp staff but decades later the lake becomes the
1:35.8	setting for a series of mass murders inspired by or committed by Jason himself.
1:48.8	While the character of Jason Vorhe's inspired 12 films making up the Friday the 13th franchise, along with a TV series, several novels, comic books, video games, and merchandise.
1:54.8	It has also quote-unquote inspired several real-life murderers, one of the most infamous
2:01.0	being Mark Branch.
2:03.0	Fun fact.
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