Source: World Wide Web
[Global Network Report Reporter Zhao Jiandong] "The novel of the American gunman 'spoiled' the future real murder case", today Russia (RT) reported on the 31st with this title, on December 27, local time, a man in Denver, the United States, was charged with killing five people, and it is extremely frightening that the "Sanctions" trilogy novel written by the man has "rehearsed" these murders.
Russia Today report screenshot
According to the report, Lyndon McLeod, 47, was charged with killing two people in a tattoo shop in Denver on the 27th, killing a man in an apartment, and then killing a man and a hotel employee at a tattoo shop in Lakewood City, and finally, McLeod was shot and injured by police. Police later confirmed that McLeod knew the victims, but some chilling details were also revealed.
McLeod, 47. Source: The New York Post
Mr. McLeod, who has been investigated twice by police but never charged, not only knows the victims, but predicts multiple details of his modus operandi in his "Sanctions" trilogy of novels, which are self-published under the pseudonym "Roman McClay," RT said. The Denver Police Department said, "We know of the book written by the suspect under a pseudonym, which is part of our investigation." ”
Denver police investigate the murder. Source: The New York Post
The Sanctions trilogy is a novel written by MacLeod between 2018 and 2020. The books were sold on Amazon until the evening of the 29th. According to the report, the name of the protagonist of the novel is only one letter different from McLeod,
In his first novel, the protagonist "McLeod" kills 46 people overnight, and the first victim is his former colleague Swinyard, who was killed in his apartment in Denver. In reality, one of the five people McLeod killed was named Swinyard, who lived at the same address as described in the novel. In addition, in both fiction and reality, a tattoo shop owner named Cardenas is killed.
McLee once said that he often used his real name to describe real and fictional events in order to "blur the line between reality and possibility."