Serial Killer Jack Unterweger was a local fascination and dangerous media darling in Austria. He killed a prostitute in Gratz and went to prison for 16 years. While inside, he learned to read and write and began writing novellas and poems. His work was so impressive that scholars and critics began to lobby for his release, claiming he had been changed by the power of art. Jack was released and then, prostitutes began dying in the area. Jack was then hired by an Austrian magazine to fly to America and write a story on crime in Los Angeles. He checked into the infamous Hotel Cecil and then, Los Angeles cops began finding dead prostitutes on Skid Row.