The Rise and Fall of Ed-Gene

Sarah. Sarah: The crimes of ed-gene naturally become a media circus. It's similar to the situation that Truman Capote depicts in Cold Blood and that this mass of big city people descend on this tiny town. Psycho, which comes out a couple of years later, is directly inspired by those events. In psycho story, you've got the physical overpowering. Anthony Perkins is kind of fighting with these women and stabbing them to death in this very violent, up close way. Whereas gene, it seems like, is killing them in these more clinical ways and then doing body stuff. And so psycho is about a woman who's done a bad thing, right? She's stolen money