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• Mantis in Lace is a 1968 sexploitation film about a topless go-go dancer who becomes a serial killer after ingesting LSD?
• Daily Mail journalist Rodney Hallworth was questioned during the 1956 police investigation of suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams for leaking information to two MPs?
• Wayne Boden, a Canadian serial killer and rapist, was the first man to be convicted with the help of forensic odontological evidence in North America?
• eight human skeletons linked to suspected serial killer Daniel Conahan triggered the largest excavation of human remains in Florida history?
• in his first murder case, real estate and divorce specialist Frederick Geoffrey Lawrence saved suspected serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams from being hanged?
• the insanity of Australian serial killer Catherine Birnie is believed to have been caused by the death of her son?
• the Stoneman serial murders of thirteen homeless people in the summer of 1989 in Kolkata remain unsolved?
• the Charter Arms Bulldog revolver (pictured) became notorious after it was revealed to be serial killer David Berkowitz's weapon of choice?
• Percy Hoskins was the only journalist working for a national British newspaper to defend suspected serial killer Dr. John Adams when he was arrested for murdering patients in 1956?
• Lavinia Fisher is widely recognised as the first female serial killer in the United States of America?
• Russian doctor and serial killer Maxim Petrov was caught because he took the names of his twelve victims all from the same list of patients, enabling police to predict whom he would kill next?
• neurologist Michael Ashby, an expert witness for the prosecution in the 1957 trial of suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams, was widely blamed for its failure because his evidence was too indecisive?
• Laura Wilson's 2004 novel The Lover is a fictionalized account of Gordon Cummins, a British airman turned serial killer who began murdering prostitutes in London during World War II?
• Scottish nurse and serial killer Colin Norris is thought to have killed his four geriatric victims because he had "a real dislike of elderly patients"?
• serial killer Nannie Doss was given the moniker "The Jolly Black Widow" after confessing to the murder of four of her five husbands?
• John B. Harman, father of the current deputy leader of the British Labour Party, was the defence's main witness in the 1957 trial of suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams?
• Dr Arthur Henry Douthwaite's testimony in court against suspected serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams is said to have cost him the presidency of the Royal College of Physicians?
• serial killer Nathaniel White claimed his first murder was inspired by a scene in RoboCop 2?
• Indian serial killer Raman Raghav targeted street urchins and beggars sleeping in the open on roadsides and slums in Mumbai?