You're right about the basics of Jekyll and Hyde. ... What's left out of most adaptations is that Hyde isn't just an evil split personality tormenting good, innocent Jekyll.

Instead, in the original story Jekyll keeps intentionally turning himself into Hyde because he feels bored and stifled by his proper, buttoned-up Victorian life, and can't resist the opportunity to cut loose and let out his darker, repressed impulses anonymously, before gradually losing control over the process. I mention this because it makes the original story way more relevant to the modern day than most "evil split personality" stories. It works as a metaphor for everything from alcoholism to being shitty to people online, and in that sense, there are plenty of real life Jekyll and Hyde cases.

I appreciate that the writers don't try and glorify the killers, and remember the victims with compassion and sympathy. They are the ones to be remembered, not the ones who did the awful deeds to them.

"Sean what do you bring to this relationship ? You LOSER"

Probably my favorite Simon quote now

Given his recollection of videos he's done recently and channel saturation, I think Simon might be the one trapped in the basement, forced to read 18 hours a day. :|a

I love when Simon says "yee ha" and we all know what it means

Could you imagine that poor caregiver or nurse that discovered the first lady. Working in a rest home, the worst we expect is a fall or medical event. That would shake you to the core, and the family.

Simon, I love that little aside about the difficulties of being a single parent.

It is a grind.

I really do appreciate when the writers nail that fine line between CSI and Saw. Matt did a bang up job as usual.

Thanks Simon!

Maybe the writers earned a few minutes of sunlight after this one?

This is why the weird shit on the internet scares most people. Some people think it's just being edgy, but yeah, it marks you out as a creep to every one else.

I know Simon was disappointed about the lack of death penalty, but as a life long resident of Louisiana with family in various parts of law enforcement, I and all of those family members always say it's way worse to do life in Angola.

When Simon said “what is he going to do to the old people?” I almost spit my coffee out 💀 Omg I love this channel 😂

A future episode idea: James Scott. He was sentenced to prison on circumstantial evidence for breaking a levee and causing a massive flood that covered 14,000 acres.

You should do a video on the largest shooting in Canada—the dentist, Gabriel Wortman, who impersonated a RCMP (police officer) and killed 22 people in Nova Scotia.

I’m from the area and know many people who were affected by his insane actions

Thanks for the respect lol 😌
I’m a single, disabled mother of 2, a 4 year old and a 3 month old. I’m also studying for medical coding and simultaneously attending college on the side.

There's NO WAY This Is Going To Ever Be Monitized.

I really love Matt's close here.  Respectful to the victims, deeply condemning remarks toward the monster who killed them. Bravo!

"He dropped her off under a 'dead end' sign" well, he's absolutrky fucking crazy but at least he has a sense of humor

Listening to episodes like this definitely help me feel more normal and not in the morbid sort of way. Growing up, I had a lot of social and behavioral issues and while my parents did what they thought would help, it ended up driving those issues deeper and making them worse. And in reflection as I got older, I was always afraid of what I would become. I still don't like to think about the person I was growing up, but at least now, I don't feel like such a failure. Of course, nowadays, my life is completely normal; I'm married, have a child of my own, a full time job and hobbies and such, so needless to say I turned out perfectly normal, but I always feel that fear of "what if" and if maybe the influences were just right, or if I had hung around the wrong people, could I have gone down a darker path. Maybe that's just part of finding out who you are, but it always scared me. Incidentally, one of my former roommates would go on to murder someone, but I think by that point, I'd firmly made a decision to distance myself from anyone who might pose a negative influence on my life (largely cause I was poor and more responsible than all of them).

He isn't really Jekyll and Hyde; he's just Hyde and worse Hyde. He's an absolute monster.