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Los Angeles Times
Entertainment
Michael Ordoña

DARK SECRETS: How paul walter hauser landed in the devil s playground with black bird | Rare Historical Photos

Playing a convicted murderer — and probable serial killer — is challenging enough, but playing a real-life murderer whose victims were young girls? One can imagine how Paul Walter Hauser could have a hard time.

Adding to that, his time playing a killer on the "Black Bird" shoot was spent mostly on a prison set, delayed and extended by external calamities.

Oh, and Hauser was simultaneously trying to get sober.

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