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TIL TV series Breaking Bad inspired a series of real life crimes. The crimes include a meth dealer dying their drugs blue, a murderer disposing of a body with sulfuric acid, a 55-year-old drug dealer using the name of "Walter White", and a school teacher with cancer making meth to pay for treatment.

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