Chapter
Blending Fiction and Reality: An Online Urban Legend
1:15:00 - 1:21:22 (06:22)
A discussion about how blending fiction and reality can create an online urban legend, generating both publicity and confusion.
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Testimonies from friends and co-workers of Mark Twitchell, a man on trial for murder, were presented after hard evidence.
1:15:00 - 1:16:48 (01:48)
Mark Twitchell
Summary
Testimonies from friends and co-workers of Mark Twitchell, a man on trial for murder, were presented after hard evidence. The judge was disturbed by how normal and average Twitchell seemed.
ChapterBlending Fiction and Reality: An Online Urban Legend
EpisodeDeadly House of Cards
PodcastDateline NBC
Twitchell believed that fiction and reality could be blended so closely together that people would be fooled into thinking that what is fiction is reality.
1:16:48 - 1:21:22 (04:34)
Fiction and Reality
Summary
Twitchell believed that fiction and reality could be blended so closely together that people would be fooled into thinking that what is fiction is reality. To generate publicity, he created an online urban legend with a series of harmless staged attacks identical to those depicted in his movie and novel.