Michael Myers Inspires Real Crime - Copycat Killers - True Crime

this program contains graphic violence your discretion is advised Halloween the infamous slasher film franchise that gives horror fans a glimpse into the eyes of Pure Evil everyone knows the character of Michael Myers he's a classic cinematic villain but while most people watch Halloween for the scares a Texas teenager draws inspiration from Michael Myers emotional L Carnage they both felt like they were drowning and the only life WRA the only Lifesaver was to [Music] kill but this teen will soon discover that real life doesn't unfold like the [Music] movies Jake took a gory movie that he

watched and turned turned it into a real life Horror Story nobody suspected anything a Miss with Jake he just seemed like a normal guy and that's why it was so shocking for this copycat crime the Killer's own confession is scarier than any Hollywood horror movie I just killed my mom and my sister what what was interesting that this family lived in this gated community that was supposed to be designed to protect them but danger lurked right there under their [Music] roof in 1978 John Carpenter releases a slasher film titled Halloween the movie creates an iconic

Hollywood Killer by the name of Michael [Music] Myers in the original Halloween we've got an elusive killer who you don't really know much about never speaks just murders people and that that's [Music] frightening at the time fans would have never believed that Michael Myers would go on to appear in nine more Halloween f films after the original installment but it's a Rob Zombie remake of Halloween 29 years later that gets everyone [Music] talking the main differences between Rob Zombies 2007 Halloween and John Carpenter's original film would be that there was a lot more Gore uh

nudity and blood like in the original film Michael Myers has an insatiable desire to kill his family for the first part of the movie we see he is targeting his family and we see the motivations as to why and then from there he goes on to murder everyone in his path audiences can never quite grasp why Michael Myers is so angry with the world it's the same feeling Parker County Texas has after Jake Evans commits an unspeakable copycat crime for everybody else that's what the movie was entertainment but for Jake it was something [Music] more

it was his inspiration to kill [Music] [Music] [Applause] Parker County 911 where is your emergency uh my house what's the emergency uh I just killed my mom and my sister what how did you do that uh I shot him with a uh 22 revolver are you sure they're dead [Music] yes it's hard for us to wrap our brain around a teenage boy who kills his mother and sister because we think about our own families if you're not safe with your own family then who are you safe with it is like everything went wrong I've never

like been anything violent in my whole life I don't know uh I pretty uh I guess evil well you just take a deep breath you'll be all right Jake Jake what I want you to do is walk outside but when you're walking through the house and outside stay visible when you open the front door put your hands up in the air just walk very slowly and walk out outside but keep your hands visible all right sweee at the scene police have no idea what to expect there's a common myth out there everyone says look out

for The Quiet Ones at the end of the day there were very few signs Jake appear to be leaving that would have led anyone to think that he was capable of anything even approximating this [Music] [Music] he gave himself up without a fight it's almost as if he realized what he had done as he snapped back into reality at that moment he was the only one that truly knew what had gone on in that [Music] house in October of 2012 with Halloween Just weeks away High School senior Jake Evans admits to a heinous crime interestingly

once Jake is in custody he's completely Cooperative Jake can you tell us a little bit about what happened today I guess I want you to start from the beginning Jake we want to know everything don't leave anything out okay I just got home from the allergist and from having lunch when I started watching Rob Zombies Halloween in the movie a 12-year-old boy murders his stepfather his sister and his sister's boyfriend it was like the third time this week I had watched it the repeated viewings leave a lasting impression I was amazed at how at EAS

the boy felt during the murders and how little remorse he felt afterwards I was thinking it'd be the same way when I killed [Music] someone Hey Jake what are you doing can't you knock he sees something in Michael Myers that he feels that he can identify with Michael Myers was having problems with his family he felt like they weren't good people Jake Evans also started to feel like his family uh was not an exemplary family he felt like they were treating each other uh unkindly and uh he didn't like that it bothered him it's hard

to comprehend why Jake is so frustrated with his family the Evans household resides in a gated community and they appear to be an All-American family this family had a stellar reputation on the outside they seemed like churchgoing people they were warm the mother Jamie adored her children she instilled in them values she wanted them to know the importance of keeping a good Public [Music] Image like a young Mike Meyers Jake seems like an innocent boy Jake was very even killed was a very normal natural teenage boy not particularly aggressive enjoyed playing golf was respectful courteous

homeschooled by his mother and father and friendly and on good terms with his younger sister but the Evans family has no idea that the movie Halloween has provided Jake with a reason to kill after I finished watching watching I put the disc back in its case and threw it in the trash because I didn't want anyone to think that it had influenced me in any way Something Turned at that point that in that film strangely enough and tragically enough he found some sort of not only inspiration but also solution as a psychologist you want to

make sense of something that appears to be so senseless that's the only thing you can do when you see something this tragic this horrific when the Killer is basing his motivation on watching a film is there any reason that you were so angry at your mother and your sister it just kind of happened I've been kind of planning on killing for a while now why in 2007 director Rob Zombie re-imagines the slasher classic Halloween a franchise most famous for its vicious serial killer the infamous Michael Myers Michael Myers is one of the most well-known cinematic

villains Michael Myers just murders anyone in his path [Music] in the first part of the movie we see he is targeting his family it's the same hatred Texas teen Jake Evans has for his own family there's something about how Jake perceived Michael Myers in Halloween and how he was killing without emotion completely heartless because he hated his family and he truly was without emotion but for Jake he somehow saw that as the key to kill his [Music] family he's watched the Halloween remake three times in one week and now he's inspired to commit a copycat

crime lots of people love horror movies slasher films they're a lot of fun and uh most people take it that way but there are a few people who have been known to take those movies and use them as a basis for their own [Music] crimes Jake Evans seemed to be having an ordinary day oh yes went back outside to swing freely with my golf clubs while Jake's father is away on a business trip in Washington DC his mother and sister mallerie are enjoying the luxuries of their estate the Evans lived in a beautiful mansion it

was a five bedroomroom five bath home it was outfitted with an oversized pool beautiful grounds there was enough space for everybody to spread out and feel comfortable but there is TR Behind These Mansion [Music] Walls a pattern you might often see in a wealthy family is that of sort of a superficial presentation that everything is just fine a hiding of the flaws especially if that family is very well [Music] established Jake held some very negative thoughts about his family World Views he felt that his parents his grandparents and his sisters were all becoming or were

racist and bullies and in fact he carried that characterization about the world feeling that the world was full of racists and bullies and that he really himself was tired of it Jake's frustrations with his family and the world are the same as Michael Myers in Halloween and since Jake has watched the film three times in one week he decides to create a horror story of his own and then I went back in and sat on the couch and thought about how I was going to kill my family my plan was to kill my mom and

my sister in my house and then go to my grandparents house across the street and kill my other sister and my two grandparents then I would wait till morning when my oldest sister was coming home from college and kill her too come on Jake I apologize like a thousand times when are you going to forgive [Music] me fine have it your way Jake's tension with his sister mallerie stems from an incident earlier that day Jake had an appointment that day he had to go to see the [Music] allergist did you see the way she kept

looking at me who that lady she was gross and why was she gross mallerie because she was dirty and disgusting and why was that you know why it's because she's black she keep your voice down what the hell is wrong with you according to Jake he said that his sister made a negative comment a racist comment how can you think that about somebody just a joke okay I'm only kidding mallerie's comments remind Jake of a scene in Halloween in Halloween Michael Myer's sisters was one of the big reasons why he was taunted in school she

was crass and vulgar and ultimately he he grew to hater and that's why he decided that she deserved to Die the movie Halloween is becoming all too real to Jake Evans Jake sees his sister mallerie just like Michael Myers sees his sister in the film Halloween doesn't try to rationalize with her doesn't try to educate her doesn't try to work with her he just has rage and anger directed at her you're becoming white trash you know that what's that supposed to mean you heard me look up the word lynching and see if you think that's

so funny you make me sick mallerie I can't believe you you're nothing but a stupid racist people who know Jake they say that he was a very calm individual he wasn't somebody who exploded no one ever saw him do that but this particular day he is just enraged there is no evidence that Jake ever had serious issues with his sister prior to this exchange at the allergist throughout the day mallerie makes many attempts to reconcile with Jake Hey Jake go away mallerie will you at least watch a movie with me please no go away so

that night when she asked me to watch I said no because of her racist comments so while she was in her room watching I went to my parents room and I grabbed my dad's [Music] knife Jake believed that he was a coldblooded [Music] killer Jake believed that he was Michael Myers from the film Halloween [Music] this was his reality that his family Must [Music] Die Rob zombiie 2007 remake of the horror film Halloween brings a greater understanding to the legend that is Michael [Music] Myers Michael Myers is Iconic and known for two things one the

white mask and the second is the large kitchen knife but for high school senior Jake Evans it's Michael Myers's ability to kill without emotion that makes him so inspirational Jake confess to killing his mother mother and sister because they were becoming in his estimation bullies and racist and then he connected it to having seen the film Halloween throughout that [Music] week for those closest to the Evans Family Jake's opinions of his family are largely unfounded but that isn't stopping him from giving the full story mallerie had made racist comments before in the past and I

scolded her for what she said and I told her she's becoming white trash nothing but a stupid racist mallerie has tried to apologize to Jake by asking him to watch a movie with her when are you going to forgive me go away I paced back and forth in my room thinking about killing mallerie thoughts of causing her pain kept entering my mind and and really bothering me [Music] [Music] it's similar to Rob Zombies Halloween when a young Michael Myers walks into his sister's bedroom completely unnoticed in the movie Michael Myer sneaks up on his sister

with a mask and the knife and you know she's going to die you don't know when and everybody's just waiting on the edge of their seat it's a lot of suspense when is he going to kill her Jake Evans is the real life Michael Myers it's like he's living the scene from the movie Jake doesn't need to wear a mask mask because he wears a mask every day of his life the mask of a nice teenage boy and that mask hides the true evil that lurks [Music] Within my God Jake you scared me to death

what are you doing are you still mad at me look I'm sorry about earlier I didn't realize how bad that joke was look I'm just a stupid kid and I'm learning from you I love you Jake the intensity of the moment is all too real for Jake and it's getting to his head did did you still want to watch a movie yeah I took a seat on the bed next to her and sat there with a knife in my pocket debating whether to kill her right then and there she has no idea that he's thinking

of taking that knife and stabbing her to death with it come on watch the movie CH just when he thinks he might do that something [Music] happens and he decides to hit her with a pillow instead I playfully threw a pillow at her to I don't know to get some of my rage out the pillow fight wasn't entirely random it appears that what Jake was doing was perhaps using the pillow fight to get things ramped up and then be able to pull out the knife and commit the [Music] cry but Jake finds himself conflicted Jake

wanted to stab his sister he wanted to kill her with a knife but he couldn't do it there was too much emotion connected to his sister when I started to think if I did kill my mom and my sister I I wouldn't want them to feel any pain so I decided to kill them with a 22 revolver I'd stolen from my grandpa I'll be right back where are you going he didn't want her to suffer the way Michael Meyer's sister had suffered after being stabbed multiple times Jake knows the time has come to kill his

family [Music] started pacing back and forth again just thinking about what I was about to do thinking about how my life would never be the same he has an opportunity to to turn this around he has a chance to put the gun away and not do this but he goes a step further [Music] mallerie mom wants you downstairs yeah give me a sec she wants you now mallerie in Rob zombiie 2007 remake of Halloween a 10-year-old Michael Myers uses a kitchen knife to brutally murder his sister and [Music] stepfather when we've seen Michael Myers in

the past we see him just on a path of destruction killing any and everyone that he crosses paths with whereas in this movie we see he has targets it's his family we see the motivations as to why he's targeting his family and it just changes what we know of the [Music] character in Parker Texas 17-year-old Jake Evans hopes to murder his family just like Michael Myers my plan was to kill my mom and my sister in my house and then go to my grandparents house across the street and kill my other sister and I would

wait till morning when my oldest sister was coming home from college and kill her too finally I went out into the hallway stood there for about 5 minutes and knocked on mallerie's door mallerie told her my mom needed her mom wants you downstairs yeah give me a sec she wants you now mallerie she came out and saw me pointing the gun at her she thought I was kidding Jake what are you doing is this a joke Jake stop you're really freaking me out [Music] Jake's mother hears the shots and runs toward the stairs L what

was that oh my God now Jake Jake no this is not some madman from the street this is your son with this gun and he's coming for [Music] you in that moment he realized oh my god what have I done he had killed his sister there was no going back Jake should have realized realized that killing is killing whether you kill a person with a knife or you kill a person with a gun or whether you poison them it's the same thing you're killing with or without emotion and there are consequences for killing he didn't

seem to be aware of those consequences [Music] then in shock I ran to my room and started thinking about what I had done I had just killed my mom and my [Music] sister I unloaded the gun under the bed [Music] this is really going to mess me up Jake finally realizes why Michael Myers could kill without emotion because it was a film it wasn't real it wasn't reality I heard a noise [Music] no and I realized mallerie was still alive I loaded the gun back up as quickly as I could and I ran to mallerie

[Music] [Music] I told her I was sorry and I shot her in the head shot my mom in the head again to make sure that she was dead [Music] [Music] but Jake has more family members he wants to kill Jake had had plans to kill his entire family and his grandparents lived next door where his other sister was it would have been very easy for him to go ahead and go go next door and finish out the rest of [Music] it the 2007 release of Rob Zombies Halloween isn't just another sequel in another endless horror

franchise Rob Zombie gave Michael Myers a purpose and a motivation for his actions which makes him more horrifying no one knew who Michael Myers was going to kill next which made him that much scarier for 17-year-old's Jake Evans no one could have predicted that he would kill his own mother and sister and Jake has more family members on his list he had every intention of going across the street and killing his grandparents and his sister he stops for whatever reason known only to Jake but it's really chilling to consider how close he was to continuing

to kill the rest of his family who was just next door Jake decides that he won't follow through with his original plan once Jake had killed his mother and his sister his plan changed he had emotion he couldn't go on killing so he's not about to go across the street and kill his sister and his grandparents Jake goes back inside his home and calls 911 to turn himself [Music] in coner County 911 where is your emergency uh I just killed my mom and my sister are you sure they're dead yes is there any reason that

you were so angry at your mother and your sister it just happened I've been planning on killing for a while now why I don't know I I don't really like people's kind of attitude I think they're kind of they're very verbally rude to each other and stuff like that and uh I don't know it's just my family I don't know they're just kind of really I guess this is really selfish to say but to me they I felt like they were just suffocating me in a way I don't know when I look at people especially

teenagers I see how they're they're just mean and and cruel to people emotionally it seems that their favorite hobby is just to belittle people and make them feel [Music] bad I saw my family I I saw these traits in them too I I thought that they were becoming the people that I hate you don't want to hurt yourself do you just to let you know like I I I I I hate the feeling of killing someone I'm going to be messed up I'm like really worried about like you know like nightmares and stuff like that

I don't mean to sound like a whmp or anything but you know this is wow I've never like done anything violent in my whole life you know you don't sound like a violent person no you don't just take a deep breath we have deputies coming and they're going to help you we're not going to hurt you are you okay Jake I'm just um I'm just thinking about my sister yeah how old is she [Music] 15 I love you Jake she had a really sweet side but you know she was kind of racist and I don't

know kind of rude to me sometimes I yeah for I guess future reference I don't really went to see any of my family members you know like and visiting or whatever I I don't know how it works or anything but I I just don't want any type of visitors Jake my officers are almost there what I want you to do is walk outside keep your hands visible all right sweetie all right and I'll talk to you later okay all right you're welcome [Music] [Music] what happened last night will haunt me forever thank you Jake you've

been very Cooperative I know I'm guilty T but do you think they'll still give me the death penalty I don't know Jake after his arrest Jake is sent to a mental institution while he awaits his trial it's just like his Idol Michael Myers once Jake was taken away he has refused to have contact with any family members he has refused to speak to psychiatrists psychologists social workers he has refused to ever reveal what was actually going on in his emotional brain during the time that he killed his mother and [Applause] sister he doesn't want male

from his family he doesn't want contact with his family and just like Michael Myers he's spending all of his time [Music] alone Mr Evans what is your plea with regard to Camp 2 and camp three guilty and you're telling me that voluntarily yes you're during the trial he pleads guilty to the deaths of his mother and sister and is sentenced to 45 5 years in prison he had no history of criminal Behavior he had no History of Violence he had no history of deviant Behavior it's shocking that someone with no history or background in [Music]

Murder could kill his sister and mother aside from his original confession Jake has refused to talk about the events of that day he chooses to be silent which is odd because you know that you're not the stone cold killer that Michael Myers was yet it seems like the story continues and he's still ulating Michael Myers when when we look at a story like Jake Evans it makes us all reflect on the fact particularly we as psychologists that we wish we could predict the future and a tragedy like this particular story only reminds us that no

matter how much we really do think we understand about the human mind there's a lot more mystery there than we could ever imagine [Music] Jake will be up for parole in 2035 when his parole comes up the big question is going to be what's the next chapter for Jake Evans [Music]