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Rechy had written an essay defending Friedkin's right to make the film, although not defending the film itself. William Friedkin asked noted gay author John Rechy-some of whose works were set in the same milieu as the film-to screen the film just before its release.
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Detectives were satisfied that Bateson actually was the serial killer they had been looking for, but lack of solid evidence resulted in his not being charged with them. This case inspired the novel upon which this film was based. While in custody awaiting trial, Bateson bragged of killing other men "for fun," dismembering their bodies and dropping the bagged remains in the Hudson River. Convicted of the homicide on March 5, 1979, he was sentenced to a term of 20 years to life in prison. After having sex at Verrill's flat, Bateson admitted to crushing his victim's skull with a metal skillet, afterward stabbing Verrill in the heart. Charged with the slaying, Paul Bateson, a 38-year-old X-ray technician, confessed to meeting Verrill in a Greenwich Village gay bar. On September 14, 1977, film critic Addison Verrill was beaten and stabbed to death in his New York apartment.
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One of the cases was solved due to evidence collected in an "unrelated" case. Because several of the cases involved unidentified persons and there was no confirmed cause of death, the crimes were not officially classified as homicides but were listed as CUPPI's-circumstances undetermined pending police investigation. Police traced items of recovered clothing to a shop in Greenwich Village, catering to gays, and distinctive tattoos identified one of the victims as a well known member of the gay community. Some of the grisly fragments washed up on the New Jersey shore, others came to ground near the World Trade Center.
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In 1977 and '78 the gay community in New York City was terrorized by a series of "bag murders"-six male victims were murdered, mutilated and dismembered, their remains wrapped in black plastic bags and dumped in the Hudson River. Those cases remain unsolved, but there's a good chance that Friedkin had not only inadvertently consulted the actual killer responsible for the murders that were the subject of both the novel and the film it was based on, but that Friedkin had also cast him in a film he made years before. Bateson was later sentenced to life in prison for the Verrill murder, but not before dropping hints while in custody that he was also the body bag killer.
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When Friedkin learned that his "Exorcist" radiologist assistant Bateson was awaiting trial for the post-coital slaying of gay film critic Addison Verrill, Friedkin decided to pay him a visit to do a little research into the psyche of his cruising killer. In 1979 Friedkin was planning an adaptation of Gerald Walker's novel "Cruising", inspired by a real-life serial killer who was carving up "leather boys" in the city's underground gay bars and dumping their body parts in the Hudson River, wrapped in black plastic bags. For a scene requiring mock brain-scans of the possessed lead character, he shot a real-life radiologist and his assistant, Paul Bateson. In 1972 director William Friedkin-huge after The French Connection (1971)-was shooting his spiritual/psych-horror The Exorcist (1973) in downtown New York.