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Breaking Bad Inspired Killer Tried to Dissolve His Victim’s Body
When the plan failed, he cooked and ate the corpse using chopsticks.
Like a number of internet-age killers, Stefano Brizzi met his victim online. Following consensual sex, Brizzi killed Police Constable Gordon Semple by strangulation. Once the horrendous deed was done, Brizzi turned to his favorite TV show — Breaking Bad — for inspiration on how to dispose of his victim’s body. Brizzi attempted to purchase acid and a plastic container as Walter White instructed Jesse Pinkman to do in the series. However, the plan to dissolve the body in acid failed and Brizzi dismembered the PC, grinding, cooking, and then eating some of his flesh.
The ‘bathtub’ scene in Breaking Bad is memorable for all of the worst reasons. After killing a man, Walter White instructs his side-kick Jesse to purchase a specific type of plastic container and acid, with the intention of dissolving the body. Jesse fails to find the right kind of plastic container and, in what becomes a comedy of errors, attempts to dissolve the body in his own bathtub instead. The tub itself dissolves along with the body…and the floorboards…and the ceiling…the whole mess crashing down before the pair’s eyes.
The specifics of this scene were discussed in court during the trial of Stefano…
