littlered2 has located the article; apparently the student became convinced for no good reason that the object of his affections was dead and broke into the morgue to see whether her body was there. Bizarre!

In my crossover fic (in which Derren is... not quite human), he tells Sam (Tyler, not Winchester unfortunately) about how he used to hang about at crossroads.

Hee! Derren Brown would make such a good crossroads demon.