There is an actual serial killer in The Exorcist. Paul Bateson (an x-ray technician by profession) is one of the radiologists present during the carotid angiography scene, several years later he was convicted of murdering film critic Addison Verill, Bateson became the prime suspect in what were known as the "the bag murders" carried out from 1977-1978, in which six male victims were mutilated and dismembered, their remains wrapped in black plastic bags and dumped in the Hudson River. Some of the grisly fragments washed up on the New Jersey shore, others coming to ground near the World Trade Center. These murders were the inspiration for another of William Friedkins films, "Cruising" starring Al Pacino.

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