The Red State....
South Australia is a quiet state that is renowned for its wines, artistic culture and its lax laws on marijuana. Adelaide, the capital city, is often the victim of the snide jokes because its size, a mere one million, and supposed boring life style. It boasts some of the best music, art and theatre festivals in the country so it does sometimes seem unjustly victimised. Most of the jokes and insults stem from Adelaide’s apparent slow pace, but this is usually just an over exaggeration. Beneath Adelaide’s quiet exterior there lies a rotten dark underbelly. You see Adelaide has become know not only for its wines but its murders. I have been told that it has the highest rate of unusual murders in the world. There really is too many cases to discuss them all but the most recent and horrifying would have to be the Snow Town murders. Where a group of men got together and started to abducting known sexual offenders and homosexuals, raping them and then kill them. Then they were placed in to barrels of sulphuric acid and stored in the vault of an old bank in the sleepy rural settlement of Snow Town. It does not end there though; these men then started to collect the deceased’s welfare payments, and did so for a number of years until they were finally caught out. This is just one of the strange serial killings that have occurred, take a look at this website if you want learn about a few of the others:
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/predators/adelaide/corpses_1.html
For my whole I life have grown up reading about stuff like this in the news and even learning about some of them at school. So my interest in serial killer novels and films obviously grew tremendously. Over the last few years there has been a huge increase in the amount of cop shows. I’m referring to the CSI’s, Criminal Intents and every other incredibly ridiculous show that has come about. So, here’s my idea. You get a small group of people together, I would say between four and six, to catch a serial killer, a real life murder mystery. You start off with a murder, the first of a long line. Each contestant gets to look through the crime scene and find whatever clues they can. They must do whatever they can to solve the case and find the killer. Of course there are rules. If the contestants work together then the amount of money they win will be reduced. The game is really about being able to think outside the box, research and determination.
The murders must be violent and gory, this firstly for the shock the audience will get but secondly to give a realistic effect on the contestants. People want to see the contestants fail, sometimes. To see them break down and completely lose it. They also want to see the people that deal with it perfectly and maybe even start behaving like real detectives. I haven’t had a chance to think up a scenario for the serial killings but something with the in depth story and back that Se7en had. It should be a case that can be solved via research as well as wits, just like a ‘real’ detective. As far as prizes goes cash would definitely be one, but not sure about what else at the moment. The show would give people the chance to become one of their favourite characters from a film or novel. A real life crime solver!
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