Today marks the 42nd anniversary of the "swinging singles" murder that inspired Lacey Fosburgh's book Closing Time: The True Story of the "Goodbar" Murder, which in turn inspired a novel and movie called Looking for Mr. Goodbar. Why did this crime inspire so many popular stories?
Judith Rossner's best-selling novel was adapted into a notorious 1977 film starring Richard Gere and Diane Keaton. And it may have been because the crime behind them seemed like a moral fable about what happened to "nice" girls in the scary new world of casual sex and drugs created by the "Me Generation."
The 1973 death of Roseann Quinn — a 28-year-old New York City teacher who worked with deaf children; she was stabbed to death by John Wayne Wilson after a one-night stand gone awry — became emblematic of the dark side of the city's 70s hookup scene.
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