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It's an old adage that Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime.

It's an old adage that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

While we might all have various ideas of who and what we consider attractive,

the beauty industry has spent billions of dollars promoting

the idealized version of beauty to the public.

Those who meet these standards and are considered the most beautiful sometimes capitalize

on this by hiring themselves out as models.

Their photographs are used in glossy ads and in television commercials to promote products and

services to consumers.

Some join the modeling industry to seek out excitement, adventure, and if they're very lucky, financial

reward.

But many who strive for success in the fashion and beauty industry, don't consider the dark side

that may be lurking beyond the shutter clicks and bright lights. In this series

Picture Perfect Murder all share cases where models find themselves faced with the ugly side of the beauty game.

In this first episode a man poses as a photographer to lure beautiful young women with the promise of modeling work,

those who take him up on his offer and even

those that don't find themselves victims of a serial rapist who soon graduates to serial

murder. This is the case of serial killer Christopher Wilder almost died at birth.

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