Where is Patrick Leach now? Peacock’s newest documentary, ‘I Love You, You Hate Me,’ examines what came about to the Barney author's son, Patrick.

The global is craving true crime documentaries, and now, we were given one we by no means expected: I Love You, You Hate Me. Yes, this is Peacock’s documentary about the dark secrets and techniques that experience haunted Barney the Dinosaur, the cute (or hateable) kids’s persona. And one of the ones darkish secrets has the entirety to do with Patrick Leach, the son of Barney’s creator, Sheryl Leach.

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Sheryl created Barney as a pal for her overactive son who used to be only a few years previous when Barney & Friends began. However, as Patrick grew older, Barney turned into the irritating more youthful sibling he by no means requested for. I Love You, You Hate Me posits that this led to Patrick to do one thing unthinkable … however what did Patrick do? Where is he now?

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Patrick Leach was once arrested after taking pictures his neighbor.

Throughout the documentary, everybody hints at what sooner or later becomes of Patrick Leach, but we don’t in fact know what happens to him until the closing part hour of the documentary. Basically, the documentary makes some primary claims that Patrick was led down a trail of darkness as a result of of his dating to Barney.

We learn that Sheryl began to spend extra time running on Barney than with Patrick, and after a decade of doing so, she determined to go back to her circle of relatives full-time in 1998. However, this couldn’t save her marriage to Jim Leach, they usually got divorced. Just a couple of years later, Jim tragically took his own existence. Patrick went directly to reside a slightly commonplace existence, then again … till he misplaced it.

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He was once living in Malibu at the time with his fiancee and two youngsters, when he were given right into a intended trespassing dispute along with his neighbor, Eric Shanks. After gunshots had been heard at 9:30 a.m. on Jan. 9, 2013, Shanks used to be found with a gunshot wound to the chest. Police arrested Leach on $1 million bail, however after pleading no longer accountable for attempted homicide, he was once able to submit bail and go house.

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But that’s now not the end of the saga. In April 2013, TMZ reported that Shanks sued Sheryl Leach for his wounds. He sued Sheryl for negligence, claiming that she shouldn’t have let Patrick have a gun figuring out his violent dispositions. Apparently on the time, Patrick was once residing together with his mom, even if the documentary doesn’t cope with that.

Now, Patrick Leach is nonetheless residing in Malibu with his family.

Supposedly, Patrick is still dwelling in the similar Malibu area. He did spend some time of his 15-year sentence in prison, however was once able to get out early because of his family’s cash. According to I Love You, You Hate Me, he’s still together with his fiancee and their two youngsters, even if there used to be no point out of his present relationship to his mom.

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Neither Sheryl nor Patrick Leach agreed to be interviewed for the documentary, so it’s inconceivable to know what in point of fact happened to them. What’s transparent is that whilst Barney the Dinosaur brought such a lot joy to such a lot of folks around the world, he may not have brought as a lot pleasure to the Leach family as Sheryl had hoped.

I Love You, You Hate Me is now to be had to flow on Peacock.

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