Gerald Foos, The Man Who Built a Motel with the Sole Purpose of Spying on their Customers

Obsession of a Man with Sex and, in particular, the Voyeurism

Gay Talese

In 1980, Gay Talese was a journalist of the "new wave" that had developed their work in a closest art to the literature and had closely examined subjects which were taboo in American society. The journalist, who was about to publish "Your neighbor's wife", was known for his interest in these topics. At the beginning of that year, Talese received a letter. In it, an anonymous man told him that in the city of Aurora Colorado State (in the United States, of course) had bought a motel to place in it several grilles to spy on their customers. But, more than that, the man invited him to go there and see what happened with his own eyes. Talese, journalist immersed in those worlds hidden in North America, ended up doing part of a sordid history that involved the obsession of a man with sex and, in particular, the voyeurism.

Guy Talese

Gerald Foos

Talese, motivated by curiosity, decided to visit his anonymous scribe. It was Gerald Foos, who made him sign a document in which it undertook to not to reveal the name of the person or the place of his motel as prevention. There, the journalist is found with a motel of 21 rooms carefully organized in such way that in some of them could observe what happened from the ceiling, through a false grid of ventilation carefully installed. Foos, since 1969, had regularly visited these grids carrying a carefully record in a diary of the things observed. According to the man, the entire structure made it with the support of his wife, and when a particularly graceful couple came they sent it to one of the rooms with ventilation to observe it, sometimes together, sometimes separately.


Talese followed carefully the annotations of Foos and even personally observed a couple keep oral sex in the room. So far, the matter went a pretty disturbing perversion, but relatively harmless.
But everything changed when the journalist checked carefully Foos notes.

Gerald Foos Picture

Death

Sometimes not revealed by journalist, Foos noticed that one of the rooms was being used by a drug dealer and his girlfriend to hide drugs. Taking advantage that both were out of the motel, the man entered the room and destroyed the evidence.

The problem came later. Convinced that his girlfriend had stolen the drugs, the drug dealer then murdered her. Foos, despite being witness of the fact, he decided to remain silent for fear that their own crimes would come to light, and the murder of the women remained unresolved until the present. Talese confronted the man, but finally decided not to report it: the affair had occurred more than one decade earlier, he had a undertaking written of not to reveal anything, and also considered that no action would restore woman life. In 2013 the crimes of Foos expired and he authorized Talese to publish a book of this. The matter settled journalist in the midst of the controversy, because many consider that he immorally acted at not to disclose the actions of his informant. Guy Talese, however, defends his actions and ensures that in any case nothing would have changed.

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