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The Bizarre Story of a Murderer Who May Have Killed the Wrong ‘Psycho’ Actress

The victim was actually Janet Leigh’s stand-in, not her body double, leading to one of the strangest true crime mix-ups in movie history.

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The shower scene from Psycho is easily one of the most iconic sequences in film history. Spoiler alert for a 66-year-old movie you really should’ve gotten around to watching by now: Roughly midway through the story, Janet Leigh’s character, Marion Crane, decides to take a shower in her room at the Bates Motel, just outside Fairvale, California. In the process, a shadowy figure sneaks up on Marion and brutally stabs her to death.

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