Netflix True -crime viewer horrified to learn “outdated” roommate laws in the USA -Netflix

Fans of a Netflix True Crime series say that the show illuminates light on the dark reality of murderous roommates.

Sharing an apartment with a buddy or a sub -tenant is more common than ever, whereby 31.9 percent of US households are considered “doubled”, which means living with at least one adult who is not a spouse, partner or student.

The Pew Research Center said that almost 79 million of us are compared to 55 million in 1995 in the heyday of sitcoms centered with roommates how how Friends.

But not every situation is a Friends-S similar fairy tales as it is strongly exhibited by Netflix's true crime -docuseries, Worst roommate of all time.

The anthology TV series, which met our screens for the first time in 2022 and returned with a 100 percent tomato tomatoes in 2024, lifts the lid on some real roommates of hell to murderers.

However, a story – the case of Jamison Bachman – is so terrifying that the show is dedicated to two episodes for this, and questioning what it calls outdated American housing laws.

What is the case of Jamison Bachman?

Alex Miller published an advertisement about her guest room in her apartment in Philadelphia in 2017, which was immediately answered by a man who identified himself as a “Jed Creek” as a lawyer from New York.

Miller rented the room for him – but things worse when he argued with her about the pet cat, he suddenly moved in – and the payment of the rent.

Over time, his agony rose, moving furniture, was aggressive and unpredictable and refused to pay invoices by bringing his tenancy rights up.

The woman finally found out the real name and identity of Creek – Jamison Bachman – and found that he was actually a serial house -occupier that she could not legally remove.

What is a house -occupier?

As a US real estate expert explains on YouTube, there is a difference between a squatter and an intruder because it concerns the former that someone stays in the property for a long time.

The house occupier can do this by moving clothes or personal items into the house.

However, the Youtuber said that court resolutions are usually obliged to drive them away and can be a “long time procedure” in which the police cannot help.

What did people say about them Worst roommate of all time Consequence?

Dozens of spectators have recorded Reddit to share their dismay about the “crazy” story of Bachman – and about the obvious triumphant rights in the USA.

When a person wrote: “I am so angry with the incompetence of police officers and the creepy laws that America has. As British, I have never heard a story in which someone who moves into another house than you? It's crazy, what the hell.”

“I hate how these victims lost their houses based on stupid laws,” they added.

Another said that the problem was so big that “some people are professional households” and added: “It is a niche company.”

They said even more that they were disturbed by the fact that the “roommate” had more electricity than the owner, as his willingness showed the new arrangement of the furniture and the removal of Miller house plants.

“To be honest, chill out,” said one, while another wrote: “To be honest, the first season scares me – homeowners [are] Really powerless. “

“I am everything for tenant rights, but cases like this really reveal how faulty our legal system is,” wrote a viewer.

“We have to get rid of the rights of the house -occupiers,” wrote another “or at least legally make it to take care of it.”

However, it may not be as easy as someone else said: “The rights of the house occupiers are important to protect the vulnerable”, but, as the series shows, “is” too often abused when people are a threat “.

What happened to Jamison Bachman?

After the end of the episode, we learn that Miller managed to finally drive off her nightmare tenant – but not without risk.

Bachman finally went into prison after shortening Miller's leg with a knife, and later he murdered his own brother, who spread him, but had refused to stay in his house.

According to reports, he took his life before his process began.

Worst roommate of all time is available to stream on Netflix.