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Copycat Killers

The Basketball Diaries

Copycat Killers

PodcastOne

True Crime, News, Tv & Film, Talk Radio

3.71K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The movie tells the story of a star student’s decent into the violent, underground world of heroin on the streets of New York. Inspired by what he saw, 14-year old Michael Carneal of Paducah, Kentucky, horrifies the nation when he reenacts the movie’s most violent scene with an unsuspecting group of students in a prayer circle. It’s a copycat killing that forever leaves a small town shaken to its core. New Copycat Killers podcasts drop each Thursday. Next week, Forensic Psychologist Dr. J. Buzz Von Ornsteiner and the experts unravel the murder inspired by TV’s Forensic Files. Like what you hear and want more true crime and mystery? Go to https://www.reelz.com/ 

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0:00.0

Thank you for listening to this Podcast One production.

0:02.4

Now available on Apple Podcasts.

0:04.1

Podcast One, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts.

0:07.6

This is Dr. J. Buzz von Ornsteiner,

0:10.8

forensic psychologist from copycat killersers, Reels Channel's true crime program

0:15.8

about real murders inspired by movies.

0:18.6

Be sure to subscribe to our series on Podcast One and Apple Podcasts.

0:23.0

Then go to Reels.com, that's R-E-E-L-Z.com, to find true crime TV series like this one on

0:30.4

Reels channel.

0:32.0

This program contains graphic... one on Reals channel.

0:35.0

This program contains graphic violence. Your discretion is advised.

0:40.0

The Basketball Diaries

0:42.0

A Gritty Coming-A-A- high school basketball star's descent into destruction.

0:50.5

Leonardo DiCaprio starred in film.

0:53.0

Audiences could tell when they watched DiCaprio

0:57.0

that we were going to be watching him

0:59.0

star in films for a long time to come.

1:02.0

In Paducah, Kentucky, a high school freshman receives the same level of notoriety

1:07.0

for a very different reason.

1:09.0

He dreams of recreating the movie's most violent scene.

1:13.0

When you're seeing something that you can identify with,

1:16.0

it's like you're seeing your own pain and suffering.

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