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The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)

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The Poughkeepsie Tapes

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Factual errors

A police officer claims that a person has to be missing for 24 hours before filing a missing person's report. While this is a common myth and trope in film it is untrue.
The reenactment of Foley's execution shows a single injection from a syringe. Lethal injections are done with an IV line through which the deadly chemicals are introduced.
When talking about a murder in Reading, Pennsylvania the female news reporter makes a reference to the town of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The goof: The reporter pronounces Lancaster as "LAN-CAST-er" but the town (at least this town in Pennsylvania)is properly pronounced as "LANK-aster."
John Wayne Gacy did not have 5 victims. Hd had 33.
The term serial killer was coined in 1974.

Revealing mistakes

The news article describing the police raid on the house with the tapes describes the house as having three stories, but it appeared to be only one story.

Errors in geography

In one newscast the TV news report says that there's another killing on the west side of the Hudson in Poughkeepsie. Poughkeepsie is only on the east side of the Hudson.
At one point, a TV news reporter says that a body was discovered on the west bank of the Hudson River in Poughkeepsie; Poughkeepsie is completely on the east side of the Hudson River.

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