True Crime Influence

performing-arts

Roxie Hart kills Fred Casely, a married man with whom she was having an affair, in both the real 1924 Chicago case and the musical Chicago. In the musical, this happens offstage...

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film-horror

Ed Gein, the Wisconsin grave robber whose life became myth, has shaped horror cinema more durably than most serial killers. This guide surveys movies that draw from Gein, distin...

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Ed Gein was not an actor and did not appear in any Alfred Hitchcock productions; he was a convicted murderer whose crimes inspired fictional characters and films, but he himself...

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