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A copycat crime is a criminal act that is modeled after or inspired by a previous crime. It notably occurs after exposure to media content depicting said crimes, and/or a live criminal model. It notably occurs after exposure to media content depicting said crimes, and/or a live criminal model.
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Since the 1994 film Natural Born Killers was released, several attacks suspected to be copycat crimes have been committed by fans of the film, mostly by high school students within the age range of 15 to 18. Though apparent links have been claimed between the film and most of the incidents described below, certain causality has not been proven.
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security warned about potential "copycat" vehicle attacks like the one in New Orleans that killed 14 on Jan. 1.
Suicides tend to occur in clusters that suggest contagion, but there is little evidence that murders or mass shootings follow the same pattern, experts say.
It was the summer of 1990 – 16 years after the last-known written communication from the Zodiac Killer – and this time New Yorkers all the way across the country were blanketed in fear.
CopyCat Killers is a documentary-style television series that investigates real-life crimes that appear to be copied from actual Hollywood movies. [1] The series debuted in 2016 and is broadcast in the United States by Reelz .