"In some ways it's easy to see why Mundt and Banis have become a 21st-century Leopold and Loeb, the famous gay lovers who inspired Hitchcock's Rope. Their 2009 trial hit almost every square on the true-crime bingo card, involving meth-fueled group sex, pathological lies forming webs of deceit, intense BDSM, and a body left to rot in the basement of a haunted former sanatorium."
"The story had been told in a sort of American Horror Story style, co-director Fenton Bailey tells me, showing demonic people and with tabloid headlines. Murder in Glitterball City casts an empathetic eye even as its subjects can be hard to love. Banis and Mundt could not have appeared to be from more different worlds. The former was a tattooed cyberpunk bartender, while IT consultant Mundt was preppy and at times adopted a fake British accent to sound more sophisticated (sound the sociopath alarm)."
Old Louisville carries a local legend about Jeffrey Mundt and Joey Banis and the 2009 murder of hairdresser Jamie Carroll. The trial involved meth-fueled group sex, pathological lies, intense BDSM, and a body left to rot in a former sanatorium's basement. The case resists simple categorization, showing blurred moral roles and complex motivations. A documentary, Murder in Glitterball City, adopts an empathetic lens and refuses tidy conclusions. Mundt and Banis came from different worlds: Banis a tattooed cyberpunk bartender, Mundt a preppy IT consultant who sometimes used a fake British accent. The pair met on Adam4Adam and moved into a dilapidated redbrick mansion.
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