murder...

Jan 18 1983

During a broadcast of "The Magic Christian," Bruce Blackman shoots and kills his family. He claims that he acted on orders received while watching the movie.

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Sounds like he was setting up an insanity defense.

I wonder which part of the dialogue that diabolical message could have been. Any suggestions?

once you got name place and year - easy to find
http://www.findadeath.com/forum/showthread.php?13578-Bruce-Blackman


It was early morning on Jan. 18, 1983, when gunfire shattered the stillness on Spuraway Drive in Coquitlam.
When Ed Field looked out his window, the neighboring Blackman house was ablaze with lights from basement to bedrooms.
Field saw a man pleading for help as he was chased around the front lawn of the Ranch Park home. After falling injured to the ground, the man was pushed back into the house -- and killed.
Inside, the scene was macabre.
Six members of the Blackman family lay shot dead in various rooms. One was so badly bludgeoned, he was barely recognizable. Blood and hair were spattered on the walls.
New Westminster coroner Diane Messier described the murder scene as one of the most shocking spectacles she had witnessed in 14 years.
About 50 shocked neighbors gathered outside the home in the morning rain as police brought out stretchers covered with blue blankets.
Dead were:
* Richard (Blackie) Blackman, 50, an engineer who worked on Vancouver's fireboat. A Canadian navy veteran, he was a former chief engineer with the B.C. highways department and a former employee of Pacific Towing Services. The kind of man you depended on to get the job done, said his co-workers.
* Irene Blackman, 49, who worked as a patterns clerk with the Province newspaper. She played tennis and badminton, went hiking, loved to garden and acted as the den mother for her son, Rick's, hockey team.
* Rick Jr., 16, a student at Sir Fredrick Banting junior secondary. He was the only one of the children who still lived at home.
* Roberta Lynn Davies, 28, the eldest Blackman daughter, who the previous summer had married John Davies, 39, a Vancouver record-company employee who had a young child from a previous marriage.
* John Davies, North Vancouver resident married to Roberta.
* Karen Dale Rhodes, 25, another daughter, who had recently separated from her husband, Curtis Rhodes.
The night before the killings, the family met at home to discuss an urgent family matter. By 4 a.m. things had gone terribly wrong. Vancouver psychiatrist Dr. Harvey Breen answered a distraught phone call from Roberta Davies at 4:49 a.m. begging him to commit her brother, Bruce, to an institution. She told him Blackman was armed with a knife.
Breen told her to call the police.
But it was Ed Field who called them after witnessing the front yard chase. They arrived as Blackman casually walked down the suburban drive after slaughtering his family.
Breen had prepared the documents to commit Blackman in December, but because the young man had not been considered an immediate danger to himself and others, Breen had not got a second doctor's signature necessary for the committal.
Bruce Blackman had always been a friendly out-going person who played soccer and Frisbee with his friends, hunted and worked on cars in his spare time. But in the months before the killings, Breen said Blackman changed from a carefree young man to a ``paranoid schizophrenic.''
According to court testimony Blackman was on an intense stone from eating and smoking marijuana.
Curtis Rhodes testified Blackman had become obsessed with religion and wore a headband he called his crown of thorns. Blackman was found not guilty by reason of insanity of six counts of first-degree murder in B.C. Supreme Court Nov. 4, 1983.

Don't discount the possibility that this is an urban legend. I can think of one group who would find this movie offensive and would try to cast it in a negative light by inventing such a story. If you surf the internet for any length of time you will find many things that are just made up. The group I mentioned is one of the main sources.