Paul Bateson

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Paul F. Bateson (August 24, 1940 – September 15, 2012), was an American convicted murderer and radiographer. He appeared as a radiologic technologist in a scene from the horror film The Exorcist (1973), which was inspired when the film's director, William Friedkin, watched him perform a cerebral angiography the previous year. The scene, with a considerable amount of blood onscreen, was, for many viewers, the film's most disturbing scene; medical professionals have praised it for its realism. In 1979, Bateson was convicted of the murder of film industry journalist Addison Verrill and sentenced to a minimum of twenty years in prison; in 2003 he was released on parole, which ended after five years. Prior to his trial, police and prosecutors implicated Bateson in a series of unsolved slayings of gay men in Manhattan known as the "bag murders," killings he had reportedly boasted about while in jail, with prosecutors bringing it up at his sentencing. However, no additional charges were ever brought...

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