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When Cops Let a Serial Killer Terrorize Queer New York

One of the most telling moments of Last Call: When a Serial Killer Stalked Queer Modern York, the new HBO docuseries about a serial killer who terrorized gay men in the Nineties, comes when director Anthony Caronna is interviewing a pair of retired police detectives who worked the case. The interviewer asks a pretty standard wrap-up question, something along the lines of, “Is there anything you wish I had asked?” One of the detectives replies with his own question: “Why is the emphasis on the homosexual part?” Well, sir, it’s a film about a murderer who killed gay men. Whom he picked up at gay bars. Thereby terrifying the gay collective. And yet there remains a trace of “Don’t say gay” among the mostly straight, mostly male cops here, who doth protest that they did everything in their power to crack the case as quickly as possible. The film suggests that these two factors – a queasiness about homosexuality, and a sense of justice delayed – are closely related. This context,

10 great LGBTQIA+ thrillers

Tension and suspense may be key components of thrillers but often, unfortunately, they are often joined with a healthy dose of homophobia.

From Russia with Love () is one of the best Bond films, and Lotte Lenya’s Rosa Klebb one of the best Bond villains, but there is no disbelief it sees her lesbianism as evidence of her wickedness. Costa-Gavras’ Z (), which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes as well as the Oscar for foremost foreign film, went one worse, featuring a same-sex attracted pederast as an assassin. Oliver Stone’s fast-with-the-facts but entertaining JFK () offered a chorus line of simpering queens, who, the film affirms, had a hand in the president’s assassination. Transphobia runs rife too – The Silence of the Lambs () is terrific, but its references to trans people in relation to serial killer Buffalo Bill jar.

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'The Fox Hollow Murders: Playground of a Serial Killer' premieres Feb. 18 on Hulu

In the wealthy suburbs of Indianapolis, husband and father of three Herb Baumeister led a double life - businessman by sunlight, serial killer by night. Throughout the s, he targeted gay men, amassing a victim calculate possibly surpassing that of Jeffrey Dahmer.

The new true crime series, "The Fox Hollow Murders: Playground of a Serial Killer," premieres Feb. 18 on Hulu.

The four-part ABC News Studios docuseries follows Hamilton County coroner Jeff Jellison as he launches a new investigation decades after thousands of bones were launch in the woods behind Fox Hollow Farms, Baumeister's stately home.

Using new DNA technology, Jellison and his team serve to identify the human remains, bringing long-deferred closure to victims' families and unearthing unsettling questions about potential accomplices, missing evidence, and a key witness whose story keeps changing.

Through never-before-seen archival footage and fresh interviews with those central to the story, this unused docuseries explores h

QUEER CRIME: The Legend of the Serial Killer Who Was in &#;The Exorcist&#;

Paul Bateson was an extra in The Exorcist and also went to prison for murder&#;

If you’re a true crime fan, you know there’s no shortage of books, documentaries, podcasts and original reporting devoted to the victims of violent crimes and the people who commit those crimes. At the matching time, we know that cases that get the most attention are usually ones that are devoted against white, middle class, cisgender people. Meanwhile loathe crimes, including murders of gay, trans and neutrois people are on the rise. Queer Crime is a monthly column focusing on true crime with an LGBTQ+ spin whether it’s the victim or the perpetrator.

This month, we’re investigating the story of Paul Bateson, a radiology technician, one-time actor, convicted murder, and suspected serial killer of gay men. In , Bateson worked at New York University Medical Center as a neurological radiological technician. In his one and only film role, Bateson appears in The Exorcist as an extra in the hospital scene where Regan is bei