The Degenerates is heavily inspired by the Robert Beckowitz murder case. On July 14th 1982, just before midnight, Robert Beckowitz (33) sat next to his girlfriend Jeannine Clark (21), watching The Benny Hill Show, when Robert's friend, James Edward Glover (37), came up behind him and shot him in the back of the head with a 45 caliber bullet before stabbing him 83 times. James and Jeannine who had been having an affair then preceded to have a 3 day drug fueled orgy which involved, sex, mutilation, and dismemberment of Robert's corpse. The case is best known for a series of photographs which were leaked to the public which were taken by Clark and Glover posing and playing with Beckowitz dismembered body.
The second entry in Jonathan Doe's Erotic Grotesque Nonsense series.