Mark Branch: The Grocery Clerk Who Thought He Was Jason Voorhees
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4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
When 18-year-old Sharon Gregory was found dead in her Greenfield, Massachusetts home in October 1988, her twin sister knew exactly who did it. Mark Branch had been obsessed with horror movies his entire life, particularly Friday the 13th, and he'd told people he wanted to know what it felt like to kill. Sharon had been doing a psychological evaluation of him for her college psychology class, and he wanted that profile back. What happened next became one of the most disturbing cases where someone tried to turn their favorite slasher film into reality. This is the story of a college student who studied a killer, and paid for it with her life. This is the murder of Sharon Gregory.
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| 0:47.8 | October 24th, 1988, Greenfield, Massachusetts. Ayear-old grocery store clerk puts on a hockey mask, |
| 0:56.7 | grabs a knife, and walks to his victim's house. |
| 1:00.0 | He's about to make his favorite horror movie a reality. |
| 1:03.6 | The victim, an 18-year-old college student who made one fatal mistake, |
| 1:08.3 | she tried to understand him. |
| 1:41.8 | Thank you. one fatal mistake. She tried to understand him. Sharon Gregory was doing everything right. Fall semester, 1988, at Greenfield Community College |
| 1:45.6 | and the 18-year-old psychology major was keeping up with coursework, hanging out with her identical |
| 1:51.3 | twin sister Cheryl, and working on what she probably thought was a fascinating assignment. |
| 1:57.4 | She'd chosen to do a psychological evaluation on someone she knew around town, |
| 2:02.7 | someone who made her twin sister very uncomfortable, |
| 2:06.6 | someone named Mark Branch. |
| 2:09.9 | Mark Branch was a 19-year-old grocery store clerk who was obsessed with horror movies, |
| 2:15.9 | specifically the violence within these horror movies. But calling it |
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