THE EXORCIST’s Paul Bateson, gay serial killer

That film truly did have a curse.

Is he the one holding Linda’s head in that photo? 😳

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Yes R2.

I looked around on-line a year or so ago and found his current details quite easily. He's living on Long Island. I checked the address out on google street view and saw the place. Nothing special. I sent a friend request to him on Facebook but he never responded.

There used to be a guy at my gym whom I had sex with a few times, and he looks EXACTLY, and I mean exactly, like Paul Bateson did at the time of The Exorcist. Same exact face. So when I see Bateson’s mug in that movie, I have this weird, subconscious positive feeling about him. Ick.

Paul is briefly featured in season 2, episode 6 of MINDHUNTER. So, I'm taking it that the "bag murders" of gay men from the leather scene were never solved? So, some eldergay serial killer could still be walking around Manhattan as we speak.

R7, Wikipedia:

Bateson ultimately served 24 years and 3 months of his sentence, becoming eligible for parole in 1997. On the day after his 63rd birthday, in August 2003, he was released from Arthur Kill Correctional Facility on Staten Island. According to online records kept by the state's Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, his parole was successfully completed in November 2008.[7] That was the last public record of Bateson available as of 2020; where he is living, or even if he is alive, is not known. Miller attempted to contact Bateson for his Esquire article in 2018 at his last known address, in the Long Island village of Freeport, but was unsuccessful as the phone had been disconnected; emails to different addresses either bounced or were not answered.[5] In his podcast interview around the same time, Friedkin said he had heard Bateson was living somewhere in upstate New York.[1]

A record in the Social Security Death Index shows that a Paul F. Bateson, with the same birthdate and a Social Security number issued in Pennsylvania, died on September 15, 2012.[6]

r7 too bad they made him soo gay on Mindhunter. Hardly even looks close to what looked like back then.