![]() ![]() So yeah, the real guy who played Barney could simultaneously massage you, be your spiritual counselor, and fix your computer - all at the same time. Meanwhile, he also became a licensed massage therapist. In an interview with Trainwreck'd Society, Joyner revealed that in his youth, he scored an ITT Tech degree in Electronic Engineering, and then worked for Texas Instruments as a software analyst. Today, Pierce is still imprisoned in Georgia.The idea of a spiritual purple dinosaur is already amazing enough, but it gets better, because Joyner is also smart as a whip. The real photo was taking in May 1971, by which time Pierce had already been connected to six slayings and was awaiting his first trial. The picture that Agent Barney produces of the killer in his cell is very real, but was edited in the show to feature actor Filipowich’s face instead of Pierce's. "Defendant said he then drove Peg out to Manchester Forest where he killed her."īut while Mindhunter didn’t invest a lot of time in covering Pierce or his crimes, the show did include one very accurate detail. "In this confession said he drove over to Sumter from Swainsboro, Georgia, on Friday, December 18, and picked Peg up at a hamburger stand," reads the court documents. But, according to a short article in The New York Times from June 1971, he was paroled in 1970 despite a psychologist’s report finding that Pierce "may be dangerous to himself and others." He was free for less than a year, but police connected him to nine killings within that short time.Īccording to an appeal rejected by the South Carolina Supreme Court in 1974, one of the murders Pierce was convicted for was that of 13-year-old Peg Cuttino. Between 19, he was convicted of a series of burglaries, thefts, and an instance of first-degree arson. According to the Georgia Department of Corrections website, Pierce had a long rap sheet before he was convicted of murder. Unlike the better-known murderers it covers, Mindhunter doesn’t particularly detail Pierce’s life or crimes, and there’s little to be found online about the convicted killer. An edited version of this photo was used in Netflix’s Mindhunter. William ’Junior’ Pierce in his jail cell in 1971. Later, Barney tells Ford that he came prepared with treats after a photograph of Pierce’s candy-strewn jail cell suggested the killer might have a sweet tooth. But the scene helps demonstrate Barney's investigative and interrogative skills-after Ford’s questioning leads nowhere, the Atlanta agent is able to make Pierce open up by bribing him with Mallomar cookies. ![]() Despite insisting upon his intelligence and boasting that he speaks seven languages, including “Libyan” (most Libyan people speak Arabic), his speech is littered with malapropisms, and it becomes quickly clear that he lacks the analytic insight into his criminality that Ford is looking for. Jonathan Groff’s Agent Holden Ford and Albert Jones’ Agent Jim Barney visit the killer at a Georgia jail in the third episode of season two. In the show, Pierce, portrayed by Michael Filipowich, is played for dark laughs. What The BTK Killer Represents in Mindhunter.The True Stories of 'Mindhunter' Season 2.The Mindhunter Cast Compared to the Real People.
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