Ep. 43 | TV Shows That Drove People To KILL...
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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.
And it wasn't long before Stefano was fully immersed in London's chem sex subculture. Basically a scene defined by long drug fueled encounters, often with strangers met through dating apps like Grindr, which Stefano used frequently. And his addiction would spiral so far out of control that he would lose his job at Morgan Stanley in 2014. And without structure, his life just became completely unrecognizable and his drug and sex addiction would just run rampant. And it was around this time that Stefano would become obsessed with the television show, Breaking Bad. Same though, but not the sex and the drugs part, but Breaking Bad's a really great show. But unlike me, he didn't just enjoy the characters and the fantastic writing.
He identified a lot with Walter White. a once overlooked man with quiet intellect who transformed himself into something extremely powerful. So his story like kind of aligned with Walter White. So he saw himself in Walter White. So Stefano would binge watch the series over and over again, not unlike myself, but we are different people. But he focused not on the dramatic arcs or moral conflicts.
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