Netflix’s Worst Roommate Ever tells the story of Jamison Bachman, a shocking serial squatter
- Two episodes of Netflix’s Worst Roommate Ever tell the story of Bachman, a ‘serial squatter who had terrorised roommates’ in the United States
- After moving into a woman’s flat, he began exhibiting strange behaviour, from hiding chairs in his room to refusing to pay the bills. Things escalated further
In 2017, the bizarre saga of a serial squatter ended in two shocking deaths in Montgomery County, in the US state of Pennsylvania. Now, the story is available for streaming via a new five-part Netflix series.
Based on New York Magazine’s viral 2018 article “Worst Roommate Ever”, two episodes of the series of the same title tell the story of Jamison Bachman. Or, as his Philadelphia roommate, Alex Miller, came to know him, Jed Creek – a name Bachman had used to respond to a fateful Craigslist ad that Miller had posted seeking a roomie.
As Jed, Bachman contacted Miller about the room, saying that he was a lawyer from New York who had grown up outside Philadelphia, and that he needed a place to stay in the area to deal with some family issues.
After meeting up, the two became roommates; Bachman wrote a cheque for Miller immediately and moved in the same evening.
It started to get weird almost instantly. Bachman showed up with six plastic bins, which contained all of his worldly possessions – as well as a cat, which Miller was allergic to, and unaware that Bachman had.