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“Sometimes in porno films he'd see a woman with a pentagram on her body, and that would excite him. It was her, that kind of woman—a follower of Satan, of what was evil—that interested him and turned him on. She would be someone he could trust; she would be someone who'd understand his needs and not think he was strange, weird, or bizarre.”

"When I received the letter, I only knew what he looked like and a few facts from Wikipedia. Since he looked old – he was around 50 and I was 21 – I didn’t find him attractive at all. That was all I knew at that time, so when I decided to make a film about it, I researched a lot. I watched a lot of documentaries and read a lot about him. I also tried to contact his niece and his other girlfriends, but I really got to know him through the many original letters Eva brought from California to Germany when I interviewed her, and I figured out that he’s not that easy. The way the media described him and how he acted was as if he was a dangerous Satanist because of the publicity. But he was more a wannabe rock star, evil I guess, but I figured out that he’s wasn’t as smart as he looked, he was not well educated, which was also a turn off for me. Actually, he was a poor, lonely guy with almost normal feelings. He cried, even, for example, when Eva left or when he missed her, and he loved her a lot, I felt, but when it came to his crimes he didn’t have any regrets or compassion. So, I tried to show those sides of him in my film, too."