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Red Collar

Roommate From Hell: Jamison Bachman

Red Collar

Catherine Townsend

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4.6604 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Jamison Bachman presented himself as a kind, animal-loving lawyer. But his victims soon found themselves trapped behind closed doors with a serial-squatter-turned psychopathic killer.

Transcript

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0:00.0

One night in November 2017, police showed up at the home of 64-year-old Harry Bachman.

0:08.6

Harry lived in Elkins Park, an upscale neighborhood in Philadelphia.

0:12.8

Police were there to do a welfare check.

0:15.6

Harry's wife Caroline was staying with her parents in Albany, New York.

0:19.4

She told police that she had expected Harry

0:21.8

to drive upstate to meet her the night before, but Harry had never shown up. When officers got to the

0:27.8

house, the car that Harry had been driving, which was a red Ford escape, was missing. Then the officer

0:34.6

took a closer look and saw something leading up to the door, something that

0:38.9

looked like blood drops. Once investigators went inside, they saw signs of a struggle, broken

0:45.9

dishes and blood-spattered walls. It looked like there had been a fight to the death, and that's

0:51.4

exactly what happened. In the kitchen, there was a pile of clothes

0:55.4

on the floor. They later discovered the killer had shed their clothes and redressed in Harry's

1:00.6

clothes before driving away in Harry's car. There was a huge, gory trail that led to the basement

1:06.7

door. When police opened the door and went down the stairs, they found Harry's body lying there.

1:14.1

Harry had been beaten to death. The cause of death was blunt-forced trauma to the head.

1:20.1

They found Harry's iPhone 7, and there were already fraud alerts popping up. Someone was using

1:25.9

Harry's credit cards, and had checked into a local hotel

1:29.0

under Harry's name. Figuring out who this person was was not a huge mystery. Caroline said that

1:35.9

Harry's brother, 60-year-old Jameson Bachman, had been to the house the night before. She knew that

1:41.1

because she'd gotten a text from Harry that read, Guess who just showed up just as I drove in.

1:46.7

She knew he was referring to Jameson.

1:49.4

For Harry, seeing Jameson was a surprise, but not in a good way.

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