Ripper Street, a little ironically given the naked opportunism with which it exploits the allure of Whitechapel's most notorious killer, is based around a Victorian detective inspector who's sick to death of Jack the Ripper.
It would not be giving too much away to say that the killer is basing his murders on the prophecies of the Book of Revelation, whose apocalyptic visions have recently been opened to the common people through the king's reforms.
I probably couldn't either!" In 1999, she played Alice in the romantic comedy Strange Planet and the Texan student Holly Maddux in The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer, which was based on the real life effort to capture Ira Einhorn, who was charged with Maddux's murder.
Michael Gallagher said his scepticism at the ability of the security forces to get the killers convicted was "based on my own bitter experience and the bitter experience of others".
"Gin & 'It' " dispenses with some of the whodunit plot, and while it hints at a nuanced relationship among the live characters as well as at the sexuality of the cinematic killers (the movie was based on the Leopold and Loeb murders, but their relationship was cut out of the film), no theme is thoroughly explored.
I knew Stagger Lee was based on a killer called Lee Sheldon, Mr Bojangles was tap dancer Bill Robinson, and Pearl Jam's Jeremy was school shooter Jeremy Wade Delle, but didn't realise that Leonard Cohen's Suzanne was Suzanne Vaillancourt, a friend who really did serve tea with oranges.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre was based on a true story about a killer named Ed Gein.
Some of the job-killer scare stories are based on a deliberate misreading of a Congressional Budget Office report that estimated the law would "reduce the amount of labor used in the economy" by about 800,000 jobs.
But I was slightly startled by how extensively Daydreaming – another killer tune from Blue Lines – is based on Mambo by Wally Badarou, a session keyboardist associated with Island Records's Compass Point studios in Nassau, who came to moderate renown in the 80s through his work with Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Grace Jones, Black Uhuru and others.
Can he stop the ABC Killer before he reaches D? One of the earliest examples of the "serial killer" novel this classic Christie is based on a beautifully simple premise.
