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Post by d3M0n on Jan 19, 2011 18:45:48 GMT -5
On December 7, 1982, Richard Delmer Boyer of El Monte, California, murdered Francis and Eileen Harbitz, an elderly couple in Fullerton, California, leading to the trial People v. Boyer (1989). The couple were stabbed a total of 43 times by Boyer. According to the trial transcript, Boyer's defense was that he suffered from hallucinations in the Harbitz residence brought on by "the movie Halloween II, which defendant had seen under the influence of PCP, marijuana, and alcohol." The film was played for the jury, and a psychopharmacologist "pointed out various similarities between its scenes and the visions defendant described."
Boyer was found guilty and sentenced to death. The incident became known as the "Halloween II Murders" and was featured in a short segment on TNT's Monstervision, hosted by film critic Joe Bob Briggs.
Crazy stuff...
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Post by Leatherface on Jan 19, 2011 19:23:21 GMT -5
Wow. Some people are whacked.
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Post by FireStar on Jan 19, 2011 19:57:09 GMT -5
Looks to me like another case of someone blaming their actions on something else instead of themselves. Its like an old slight of hand trick, get the audience so distracted by this and they'll miss what's going on over there. Fortunately he was found guilty or I could imagine all the criminals who would use that type of thing as a defense.
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Post by Zombified Jeremy on Jan 19, 2011 20:52:44 GMT -5
People love to play the blame game when it comes to the media.
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Post by Halloween11 on Feb 3, 2011 21:35:27 GMT -5
wow thas really sad how people blame movies for there crimes its like these 2 boys who killed a baby after seeing childs play 3 and recently the kid who murdered a bully cause he said he felt like dexter from the show time series its really sad
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Post by Leatherface on Feb 3, 2011 22:07:08 GMT -5
I remember watching on court tv a long time ago where a mentally disturbed Teen from MA murdered his neighbor with a kitchen knife and then hung himself in the woods. He was a shizophrenic who was literally obsessed with Jason Voorhees. He thought he was Jason.
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Post by Halloween11 on Feb 3, 2011 22:09:25 GMT -5
ya i rember that it was beyound strange but very sad he wasent as bad considering his mental illness but people who kill and blame it on movies is really irratating
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Post by Leatherface on Feb 3, 2011 22:10:20 GMT -5
Well in his case the parents shouldve been concerned when he started having machetes in his fucking sock drawer and had a shrine to Jason Voorhees in his closet.
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Post by Halloween11 on Feb 3, 2011 22:11:40 GMT -5
ya thats very true they should of known there was a problem
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Post by FireStar on Feb 4, 2011 23:29:49 GMT -5
I remember watching on court tv a long time ago where a mentally disturbed Teen from MA murdered his neighbor with a kitchen knife and then hung himself in the woods. He was a shizophrenic who was literally obsessed with Jason Voorhees. He thought he was Jason. I remember that case, he was so obsessed that when they found him in the tree he was dressed just like Jason. Coveralls and all. Talk about nuts. |
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Post by Leatherface on Feb 4, 2011 23:37:11 GMT -5
Yeah and adding into the fact that his parents let him watch the movies and of course blamed the films for their son being a whacko.
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Post by Chainsaw on Feb 7, 2011 18:15:08 GMT -5
Pretty whacked out stuff. I haven't heard it before now about this case though.
Does anyone remember that girl that used to be here that talked about astral planes and how she was able to talk to Jason?
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Post by Leatherface on Feb 7, 2011 18:22:55 GMT -5
Oh yeah. She was weird
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Post by Chainsaw on Feb 7, 2011 19:03:23 GMT -5
What was her name? You remember?
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Post by FireStar on Feb 7, 2011 20:40:51 GMT -5
That's definetly on the wierd side. Must've been before my time because I definetly would have remembered someone saying that.
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Post by The Darkness on Feb 8, 2011 18:11:21 GMT -5
Horror movies can really fuck someone's mind up. If you're not completely sane, you shouldn't watch them.
They should have that disclaimer somewhere on the movie ticket ;D
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Post by Leatherface on Feb 8, 2011 18:36:53 GMT -5
What was her name? You remember? It was Toaster Pie I think. |
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Post by Chainsaw on Feb 8, 2011 18:37:14 GMT -5
Jason Voorhees' Wife
That was her name. She was actually a good person just got weirded out with the Astral Plane talks sometimes. I'm gonna find her on facebook lol.
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