The Boston Strangler Page #5

is to say that I'm a bachelor...

...and I would appreciate it

if you could suggest a nurse...

...who might like me

as much as I'd like her...

...and if so, we could begin a friendship

that might lead to the altar."

- Pathetic.

- Very sad.

Except...

...he's been fired from a ladies'

shoe store for groping a customer.

His landlady says he sleeps on

bed springs without a mattress.

Just the springs?

Some order of French Trappist monks

where he was living...

...threw him out for acting like a nut...

...trying to torture himself,

washing in the toilet, that kind of thing.

He's had shock therapy.

Spend some more time on him.

Which one is the swami?

Texas character is a bodyguard.

BOTTOMLY:
I'm John Bottomly.

- Hurkos.

- Dick Matheson.

- Det. DiNatale.

- Everyone say Peter to me.

If you all don't mind,

I'd like to see your IDs.

No reporters, huh? How you manage that?

BOTTOMLY:
All we had to do was

get every newspaper, radio network...

...TV station and international wire

service to look the other way.

That's why we brought you into Providence.

If Peter strike out, public don't know.

- Nobody yell "big fake," right?

- BOTTOMLY:
Right.

Right this way.

Is this the way you want them?

Each pile covers one of the killings.

You got the ladies' stockings,

panties, bras, that stuff?

On the way.

Okay, we start on pictures?

All yours.

Tricks you play, huh?

This one phony-baloney. This not belong.

You show Peter up?

Now we try real one, eh?

This top one is house,

house where murder take place.

Underneath is dead woman.

Like this.

Pretty good, eh?

[KNOCKING]

- BOTTOMLY:
It's all right.

- Sorry I'm late. Car wouldn't start.

This is Sgt. Phil Lisi.

- Phil.

- Hello.

You're not late because of car.

I tell you what happen.

You phone girlfriend.

"I can't come over this morning.

I've got to see this nut, Hurkos."

She say, "Come over for one cup coffee."

Right, Phil?

So you go there.

She bend over to get coffee...

...you grab her, push her on

kitchen table and zoink!

Then you come here.

That's why you're late, right?

- You're a dangerous man, Peter.

- I tell truth, what I see.

Hey, Phil, open that.

Let Peter see ladies' things.

Don't take so big, Phil.

Maybe half men in room

have girl on way to work.

Maybe Hurkos big fake, huh?

I see him.

Not too big.

Five feet six, seven...

...130, maybe 40, pounds.

He... He not sleep in bed.

He is on floor. No, no, no.

On mattress. No, no.

Just on springs, sleep on springs.

He loves handbags.

I see handbags, women's handbags.

Lots of handbags.

He use them for sex.

But it make... Make him feel bad,

not good.

He...

I need map. Boston, quick.

He live here.

Cambridge.

This man priest.

No, no, no, not priest,

but live with priest.

Dress like priest.

Priest, they... They care,

but he... he hurt himself.

He make dirty, he wash hands in toilet.

They throw him out. They...

[GRUNTS]

I stop now.

[PHONE RINGS]

SOSHNICK:
Soshnick.

We need a search warrant

for a Eugene T. O'Rourke.

Here's a letter O'Rourke wrote...

...and these are my notes

after I checked him out.

Twenty-three-year-old girl in Cambridge.

- That's number 10.

- O'Rourke lives in Cambridge.

I got something, eh?

You got something.

Hey, look at this.

Strangler's knot.

Yeah. That would be one way

to tie them, wouldn't it?

Don't fight it too hard, Julian.

BOTTOMLY:

I don't recognize these floor plans, but...

...crosses have been placed

just about where the bodies were found.

It would be absolute insanity if the way

we got to break this was Peter Hurkos.

God, look at this book of yoga exercises.

Four, five, six, seven...

...eight, nine, 10 bodies!

What else do you want,

an invitation to the 11 Th?

Eugene T. O'Rourke.

Do you know an attorney?

Uh, my brother is a lawyer,

but he won't talk to me.

We'll get you one, if you want one.

It's your right.

It isn't a lawyer I need, I'm afraid.

I can't remember when I wasn't like this.

I...

I, uh...

Go on.

I can't. I can't.

I thought I could, but I can't.

I should be put away.

You know they gave me shock therapy?

You know they made me leave the monastery?

Why did they make you leave?

You don't know what it's like.

I know you've looked at everything here.

You looked in the closet.

You saw the handbags.

That's what I think of.

That's all I think of.

I know I'm unclean.

I wash in dirt...

...to punish myself.

I do other things too,

terrible, disgusting things.

What do these X's mean?

I took a correspondence course in art...

...and I had to put the X's down to see

where I'd have to do it over again.

Why did you blot out 10 of these women?

I didn't like those pictures.

Why do you have all those things

knotted together?

I'm collecting them

for Our Lady of Victories.

Where did you buy this?

- Oh, that's not mine.

- DINATLE:
No, you lost it.

Where did you buy it?

What are you saying?

I never saw that before.

Listen, Eugene, we know all about you.

Everything.

Now, God wants you to tell us the truth.

God knows how you've been hurt,

and he wants you to tell us the truth.

God wants your salvation

as much as you do.

Now, tell us the truth.

But I'm trying.

This is very hard for me.

- It's a terrible, dirty thing...

- No, not about the handbags, Eugene.

But about what?

Start at the beginning.

How did you kill that first old lady,

Mrs. Hodak?

How did you get into her apartment?

You can't feel any worse

than you feel now.

You'll feel better.

Oh, you think that I...?

That I...?

Oh, I thought you wanted to help me!

We do want to help you.

Go away.

I never hurt anything in my life...

...except myself.

If I arrange it,

will you commit yourself to a hospital...

...so you can be helped?

No.

You don't really want to.

You're just tricking me.

BOTTOMLY:
Under Massachusetts law,

Mr. O'Rourke...

...any doctor can commit you...

...for 10 days' observation

without your permission.

I can't stop you

if that's what you want to do.

We'll give Mr. O'Rourke

a chance to think things over.

- On your feet, Eugene.

- What are you doing?

- You said we should have him commit...

- I said a doctor can commit him.

We'll find one at Boston City.

He doesn't want to go.

The papers will be signed right here.

- But if we start now, we can get him in...

- You'll get what?

I'm developing my own ESP.

We've made a beautiful landing

at a wrong airport.

Phone in, get the doctor here.

You can come in now. We're all finished.

She was a student. Psychology.

Worked part-time in a hospital.

- Was she raped?

- The doc said no.

That's our man again for sure.

Everything locked from the inside,

Strangler's knot, no actual rape.

Stab wounds in a perfect circle

around the breast...

...and then a bull's-eye.

This kind of mutilation goes

with the queer.

Look at this.

She was doing her master's thesis.

Factors Pertaining to the Etiology

of Male Homosexuality.

She knew him. She let him in.

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