Editor’s Note : This Page Was Updated On 31-Oct-2022 to add information Harry Bachman’s Death
The story of Jamison Bachman and some of the many victims he allegedly wronged finally stole the show in Netlfix’s “Worst Roommate Ever,” which debuted earlier this year and quickly became a streaming phenomenon. However, what ultimately happened to the Philadelphia serial squatter? Is anything we learned from the Netflix series real?
We need to go back and examine Bachman’s actual media and paper trail to find the answer to that. It includes references in the Philly Voice, on regional television stations like 6abc Action News, and, as viewers saw in the show, a lengthy feature in New York Magazine. Bachman had largely avoided detection over the years despite his cunning apartment snatching methods. The tenant terrorizer was able to trick several people into letting him stay with them by using fictitious names and legal loopholes. Bachman would simply refuse to pay the bills when it was time and laugh in his roommates’ faces. On the programme, one of the ex-roommates, Alex Miller, said: “When he laughed at me, it was sinister” (via Oxygen). How much of what we saw and heard in “Worst Roommate Ever” was, however, based on true events? What ultimately was omitted?
For years, Jamison Bachman engaged in fights with his Philadelphia roommates while accruing debt in New York.
Local accounts claim that Jamison Bachman was a well-known troublemaker in Philadelphia who frequently clashed with law enforcement and court personnel. He had accumulated a number of debts in the Empire State and had been bouncing between New York and Philadelphia (via The Philadelphia Inquirer).
According to NY Mag and other publications, Bachman gained notoriety in 2013 for reportedly damaging Melissa Frost’s West Philly home and refusing to leave. The City Paper, which is no longer in print, reported that the judge who presided over the subsequent case said to Bachman, “I think you’re absolutely amazing. I don’t believe a word you say, and you’re actually terrifying.” According to reports, the judge commanded Bachman to vacate Frost’s house and pay her $1,300.
Along with the tales shared by Sonia Acevedo, Arleen Hairabedian, and Alex Miller on “Worst Roommate Ever,” Frost’s account is another illustration of Bachman’s nefarious deeds, which included removing bath mats and other odd techniques like pouring cat litter into toilets. The repeated squatters’ work, according to Frost, was “life-consuming.” What followed Bachman’s squatting mishaps is where things actually took a tragic turn.
Harry Bachman’s Murder and what exactly happened to him?
Although Netflix’s “Worst Roommate Ever” covers the murder of Harry Bachman, Jamison’s brother, some of the specifics of what transpired are simple to overlook, particularly since this occurred months after the ordeal Alex Miller (shown above with her mother, Susan) went through while Bachman was residing in her apartment.
Prior to his death in November 2017, according to the police report, Harry was concerned that Jamison might approach him at his home (source: The Philadelphia Inquirer). Shortly before his alleged murder, he is reported to have texted his wife Caroline and stated, “Guess who just showed up just as I drove in.” Don’t guess, Harry continued. Jamison was allegedly furious that Harry and his wife had rejected his request to stay with them because the brothers were known to quarrel.
Authorities claimed that after Jamison arrived, there was a violent battle in which Harry sustained a fatal head wound. Investigators think Jamison tried to pull Harry’s body down the basement after bludgeoning his older brother to death, but ultimately abandoned him on the steps. Jamison later drove Harry’s red 2013 Ford Escape seven miles away, where he checked into a motel and eventually was apprehended after using his brother’s credit cards.
As a result of his brother’s death, Jamison Bachman, 60, was later charged with first- and third-degree murder, indicating that investigators thought the killing might have been premeditated. According to reports, he had court dates set for a preliminary hearing on December 11, 2017, and his trial in Philadelphia on January 12, 2018. Bachman committed suicide inside of his prison cell on December 8, 2017.
