Not mentioned in the movie was Darryl Collum's inspiration for the 1st attempt, Helen's hanging. It appears to be a copycat of Russian serial killer Anatoly_Slivko. He too would hang his victims not to with intention kill but force unconsciousness, after which he'd molest the victim if they lived, or cut them up into pieces if they didn't. Hanging ain't that common as a murder m.o., and his story went public shortly b4 this movie came out, so if we assume Collum was also a copycat (reasonable given the movie theme), it'd likely be Slivko. Don't forget, Foley took the name of Peter Kurten, a German serial killer, so it ain't unreasonable that copying other foreign serial killer's m.o.s was not freelancing but another 'homage' to Collum, who started the idea of his copycatting inspired by Slivko.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Slivko
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