NEW YORK A man accused of dressing up as his dead mother to collect her Social Security and rent subsidies is blaming the crime on an impersonator. Thomas Parkin tells the New York Post in a jailhouse ...

Before he was battling wildfire in CBS's drama Fire Country, Max Thieriot was caught in something much darker.

In a real-life twist on Hitchcock’s “Psycho” character Norman Bates, it seems a New York man who impersonated his dead mother wanted to keep her credit line alive. Thomas Parkin, 51, of Brooklyn, was ...

Norman does not dress as Mother, as he does in the film, symbolizing that he no longer needs to hide behind her as a disguise. He pulls back the curtain and begins his bloody assault on Sam Loomis.

In his Vanity Fair interview, criminologist David Wilson discussed his thoughts on Norman Bates from Psycho. “I wouldn’t necessarily describe Norman Bates as a psychopath,” Wilson said.

Norman was accused of murdering his teacher, and he conjured an image of his mother, to beat the test. This manifestation begins the foreshadowing of Norman's ultimate fate.