āI separated the joints, the arm joints, the leg joints, and had to do two boilings. I think I used four boxes of soilex for each one, put in the upper portion of the body and boiled that for about two hours and then the lower portion for another two hours. The soilex removes all the flesh, turns it into a jelly-like substance and it just rinses off. Then I laid the clean bones in a light bleach solution,left them there for a day and spread them out on either newspaper or cloth and let them dry out for about a week in the bedroom.ā
āI took the knife and the scalp part off and peeled the flesh off the bone and kept the skull and the scalpā¦ If I could have kept him longer, all of him, I would have.ā
ā Jeffrey Dahmer on the murder of Ernest Miller.
This Thursday on Gotham (Fox, 8/7c), The Penguin has a real joker on his hands, as he learns the current lay of the land inside Arkham Asylum.
Oswald of course is no stranger to Arkham, but this time he finds himself behind bars for fraudulent reasons ā fingered for the (non-)death of orphan boy Martin. But on top of that injustice, he must contend with the Ā chaos personified that is Jerome Valeska, who fancies the asylum his personal playpen.
Before the Gotham castās recent Tumblr HQ panel, TVLine spoke with Robin Lord Taylor about Cobblepotās conundrum.
TVLINE | What pray tell is the Oswald/ Jerome dynamic going to be like? What are they going to want from each other? You have Jerome (played by Cameron Monaghan), who is chaos, and you have Oswald, who is control. So you can imagine, there are ways that those can integrate, but at the same time theyāre opposites. Itās a really intricate dance that they both have to do, to figure each other out. Oswald is at his lowest of the low, and it has extra significance this time because heās innocent! He didnāt do anything. I mean, relative to Oswald he was a good person. [Laughs] He did the right thing [faking Martinās death], so to find himself still betrayed, still back in Arkham, everything he has worked for taken away due to false pretensesā¦. Itās just devastating to him. When we come back, we see him in that state. And now he has to contend with Jerome, who essentially runs Arkham. Itās his playpen.
TVLINE | And you two have never even had a scene together before, right? Cameron and I? No, we havenāt. Weāve never interacted. And this was something the two of us have been talking about, since Season 1. Thereās a really exciting dynamic to explore. But Oswald definitely recognizes him from when he was on the news, and they have that connection through [Theo] Galavan, too.
TVLINE | Does Oswald hold Jerome in any āprofessionalā regard? Or does he dismiss him as a loose cannon? Like, āYouāre sloppy.ā I think itās terrifying for him, actually. He finds himself in Arkham, under the control of a madman, and thereās no angle he can work. Thereās no potential outlet that he can use to gain control. Itās too far gone, so itās really, really terrifying to Oswald. His focus from the second heās there is to get. out. ā whatever it takes.
TVLINE | And it might takeā¦ doing Jeromeās bidding? Doing Jeromeās bidding; he has to navigate with him. He also has to figure out, that if help has to come from outsideā
TVLINE | Heās burned all his damn bridges. One would think! Butā¦.
TVLINE | Who is Oswald most angry with, stuck there behind bars? Heās most angry with Zsasz (Anthony Carrigan); heās a huge part of it. And obviously Sofia (Crystal Reed); heās directed all of his anger at her.
TVLINE | Zsasz playing dumb about the ādeadā kidā¦. That betrayal hurt, man. Oswald is angry at Sofia; I think heās just more heartbroken by Zsasz, to be honest. Heās the reason Oswald is there. And also, Oswald knows that its really Sofia that has done this, but for her to be able to take a career criminal like Zsasz and turn him into a fāking rat? That takes talent.
TVLINE | What other characters will you be interacting with? The Riddler and the Penguin (Cory Michael Smith) come back into each otherās lives, and itās a really, really great moment. And itās unexpected; I donāt think people will expect the way this happens. (See exclusive photo above from the March 15 episode.) It also kind of shows one of my favorite things about the show, which is that these characters take the lessons and the experiences of the past and they change and they grow and they evolve, as the years go on.
Everything that happened between the Riddler and the Penguin last year that broke them apart, t changed who they are, so they are different when they come back together. And thatās why I think itās unexpected but it gives our show a groundedness and a reality. Like, things arenāt just tossed away. The characters remember the people that have hurt them. Itās bingeable TV!
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The Wacky Molestation Adventure
āHey. Looks like youāre not so bad with kids after all.ā āYeah, I guess youāre right. Maybe we should have some.ā āYeah, right. After all this, Iām getting my tubes ties tomorrow!ā
When the body of Elizabeth Short was discovered, Los Angeles seemd to freeze.
Short was called the Black Dahlia, a mysterious woman with an unhappy past. Her murder was a celebrity cause that ripped open the dark side of Hollywood in many ways.
A woman and her three year old daughter saw what they first thought were the pieces of a mannequin in the ditch. After a moment, the horrified woman realized that what she saw had been a real human body. She pulled her daughter away and ran to telephone the police.
Of course by then it was too late for Short. She had been sawed in half at the waist, but the ground was completely clear of blood. This told the detectives that someone had killed her at some other location, drained her blood, and moved her. Whole pieces of her body had been cut away. Her intestines were meticulously stacked under her buttocks. Her legs were spread, and her hands were posed behind her head. More than one authority of the day uneasily noted how provocative the pose was meant to be.
The autopsy revealed that she had been tied before she died, though no ropes were ever found. She had been badly beaten before she died.
The case received an enormous amount of attention. Just a few weeks later, the killer called the editor of one of the newspapers. The mysterious caller offered to send in pieces of Short, verifying what he had done. Indeed, the next day, the paper received Shortās address book, photographs, and birth certificate, things that had been missing from her home and her person.
Over the years, more than fifty people have confessed to the killing of Elizabeth Short. Some others have volunteered famous celebrities of the day and even close relatives. James Ellroy, a famous crime writer, believes that his own mother was killed by the same man who killed Elizabeth Short.
Today, the crime goes unsolved, and if Elizabeth Short ever knew her killer, she has taken that knowledge with her to the grave.
On 15 January, 1947, Betty Bersinger was pushing a stroller containing her three-year-old daughter down Norton Avenue, Los Angeles. Much of the area was vacant due to WWII stopping housing development, but the driveways of these future homes were already completed. She was making her way to a shoe repair shop when she saw what she believed to be a mannequin, just dumped on the grass. She reported that the mannequin was bleach white and that the bottom half of the torso had somehow been disconnected. When she got closer, she soon realised that it was not a mannequin, but the body of a young woman who had been completely severed in half and drained of blood.
The police arrived and noted that her face had been slashed ear to ear and the lower part of her body had numerous knife wounds and was missing her pubic hair. One of her feet were found just beside the footpath and in clear view for anybody driving past. The infamous murder became known as āThe Black Dahlia and the victim was called Elizabeth Short. The case still remains unsolved to this day.
š„ There is beauty in destructionš„ 