frightened! A big fan of "Nightmare" and a forensic medicine college student, he was arrested and pleaded guilty after trapping and killing a woman.

Day, a big fan of the American TV series "The Nightmare" and a forensic medicine student at the University of Worcester in the UK, was arrested after imitating the pattern in the TV series to trap and kill a woman. (Picture taken from West Midlands Police official website)

The male protagonist of the well-known American TV series "Nightmare Killers" is a blood splatter analyst for the police during the day, and at night he becomes a murderer hunting other serial killers. Benjamin William Day, a 20-year-old student at the Department of Forensic Medicine at the University of Worcester in the UK, is a die-hard fan of the show. He was arrested late last year after trapping and killing a woman according to the model in the show. He has now pleaded guilty and is awaiting sentencing.

According to the "BBC" report, Day was 19 years old when he rented a house in Tividale, West Midlands, through Airbnb on December 20 last year. He covered the walls and floors with plastic sheets, and also purchased masks, aprons, and cleaning chemicals.

Then, Day used a disposable mobile phone to contact Maria Saceanu, a 24-year-old sex worker, and stabbed her 78 times to death. Originally, Day planned to dismember her body, but because he cut himself in the process, he gave up the dismemberment method.

The prosecutor said that after committing the crime, Dai left the rental house on foot and called the emergency hotline number 999 at about 0:50 a.m. on December 21 last year. When the police car came to take him to the hospital, they found that Dai's hands were wrapped with tape. He lied that he was going to the bar to find a strange woman, but he was bitten by an animal that might be a fox in the bushes.

Not long after, the Airbnb landlord received a notice from the tenant in another room in the same house. When he went to check, he found blood stains in the house, and something that looked like a "doll (actually the body of the deceased)". The landlord was frightened and quickly called the police. Day was immediately arrested in the hospital in the early morning of the same day. When he was arrested, he was dressed similarly to the actor of "Nightmare Killer".

The medical examiner pointed out that the victim should have died from damage to the carotid artery and had multiple defensive wounds on his hands. When Day appeared in court in Wolverhampton, he originally planned to argue that he was acting in self-defence. As for the house covered with plastic sheeting, it was to film a video tribute to "The Nightmare Killer" on TikTok.

However, Day changed his plea to guilty during the trial. He seemed to have a proud smile on his face at the time. The court will pronounce the sentence on December 4 this year.

The victim, Saceanu, was stabbed 78 times. (Picture taken from West Midlands Police official website)