The Basketball Diaries

The movie tells the story of a star student’s decent into the violent, underground world of heroin on the streets of New York. Inspired by what he saw, 14-year old Michael Carneal of Paducah, Kentucky, horrifies the nation when he reenacts the movie’s most violent scene with an unsuspecting group of students in a prayer circle. It’s a copycat killing that forever leaves a small town shaken to its core. New Copycat Killers podcasts drop each Thursday. Next week, Forensic Psychologist Dr. J. Buzz Von Ornsteiner and the experts unravel the murder inspired by TV’s Forensic Files. Like what you hear and want more true crime and mystery? Go to See Privacy Policy at and California Privacy Notice at .

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The Basketball Diaries is an episode from Copycat Killers by PodcastOne.

This episode is 00:44:08 long.

This episode was published on Aug 4, 2020.

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