[Note the film""s first major blooper, remaining only in the film""s trailer: A white vehicle appears o be moving behind the rider in the very far distance.In the memorable entrance scene, the down-on-his-luck car owner was wearing a hat and a double-breasted suit.The astrological name Scorpio, and the killer""s taunting with coded, written notes were just a few of the similarities between the film""s account and the real case.The jeweler reacts when a satchel of extracted human teeth with gold and silver fillings is dumped on his desk.The cynical, film-noirish, war-time film was shot on location in the small, story-book town of Santa Rosa, California - a representative place of sacred, wholesome, middle-American values where dark corruption is hidden within a family.