On September 14, 1977, film critic Addison Verrill was beaten and stabbed to death in his New York apartment. Charged with the slaying, Paul Bateson, a 38-year-old X-ray technician, confessed to meeting Verrill in a Greenwich Village gay bar. After being intimate at Verrill's apt, Bateson crushed his victim's skull with a metal skillet, afterward stabbing Verrill in the heart. Convicted of the homicide on March 5, 1979, Bateson drew a term of 20 years to life in prison. While in custody, awaiting trial, Paul Bateson bragged of killing other men "for fun," dismembering their bodies, and dropping the bagged remains in the Hudson River. Detectives satisfied themselves of Bateson's guilt, but he was never charged, and the "bag murders" -- that later inspired the movie Cruising -- remain technically unsolved.
He was a film critic for Variety Magazine
Obituary courtesy of New York Times:
A funeral service for Addison Verrill, movie‐industry reporter for Variety, was held on Saturday in Hamden, Conn. Mr. Verrill was found stabbed to death last Wednesday in his apartment at 2 Horatio Street. He was 36 years old. A Variety spokesman said that the writer's apartment had been ransacked and that the police suspected robbery as the motive for the killing.
Mr. Verrill, who graduated from Princeton University in 1963, had been with Variety for 10 years. Previously, he spent three years in Nigeria with the Peace Corps.
He is survived by his parents, who reside in Hamden; a brother and a sister.
He was a film critic for Variety Magazine
Obituary courtesy of New York Times:
A funeral service for Addison Verrill, movie‐industry reporter for Variety, was held on Saturday in Hamden, Conn. Mr. Verrill was found stabbed to death last Wednesday in his apartment at 2 Horatio Street. He was 36 years old. A Variety spokesman said that the writer's apartment had been ransacked and that the police suspected robbery as the motive for the killing.
Mr. Verrill, who graduated from Princeton University in 1963, had been with Variety for 10 years. Previously, he spent three years in Nigeria with the Peace Corps.
He is survived by his parents, who reside in Hamden; a brother and a sister.
On September 14, 1977, film critic Addison Verrill was beaten and stabbed to death in his New York apartment. Charged with the slaying, Paul Bateson, a 38-year-old X-ray technician, confessed to meeting Verrill in a Greenwich Village gay bar. After being intimate at Verrill's apt, Bateson crushed his victim's skull with a metal skillet, afterward stabbing Verrill in the heart. Convicted of the homicide on March 5, 1979, Bateson drew a term of 20 years to life in prison. While in custody, awaiting trial, Paul Bateson bragged of killing other men "for fun," dismembering their bodies, and dropping the bagged remains in the Hudson River. Detectives satisfied themselves of Bateson's guilt, but he was never charged, and the "bag murders" -- that later inspired the movie Cruising -- remain technically unsolved.
He was a film critic for Variety Magazine
Obituary courtesy of New York Times:
A funeral service for Addison Verrill, movie‐industry reporter for Variety, was held on Saturday in Hamden, Conn. Mr. Verrill was found stabbed to death last Wednesday in his apartment at 2 Horatio Street. He was 36 years old. A Variety spokesman said that the writer's apartment had been ransacked and that the police suspected robbery as the motive for the killing.
Mr. Verrill, who graduated from Princeton University in 1963, had been with Variety for 10 years. Previously, he spent three years in Nigeria with the Peace Corps.
He is survived by his parents, who reside in Hamden; a brother and a sister.
He was a film critic for Variety Magazine
Obituary courtesy of New York Times:
A funeral service for Addison Verrill, movie‐industry reporter for Variety, was held on Saturday in Hamden, Conn. Mr. Verrill was found stabbed to death last Wednesday in his apartment at 2 Horatio Street. He was 36 years old. A Variety spokesman said that the writer's apartment had been ransacked and that the police suspected robbery as the motive for the killing.
Mr. Verrill, who graduated from Princeton University in 1963, had been with Variety for 10 years. Previously, he spent three years in Nigeria with the Peace Corps.
He is survived by his parents, who reside in Hamden; a brother and a sister.
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