Adan, Abbott replied: "Remorse implies you did something wrong... If I'm the one who stabbed him, it was an accident."<ref>Hare, Robert. D. (1993) Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us. NY: The Guildford Press</ref> Abbott also repeatedly insulted Adan's wife in court, claimed his victim had "no future as an actor" and, despite his claims that he was "railroaded," he also asserted that "There was no pain, it was a clean wound". In popular culture In 1983, the Trinity Rep Theatre in Providence, Rhode Island produced an adaptation of In the Belly of the Beast. It was directed by Adrian Hall and featured Richard Jenkins as Abbott. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' song "Jack's Shadow" from the album Your Funeral... My Trial (1986) was inspired by Abbott. The Australian film Ghosts... of the Civil Dead (1988) was inspired by Abbott's life. Portions of In the Belly of the Beast were used in the movie Shambondama Elegy (1999), also known as Tokyo Elegy, by Ian Kerkhof. In 2004, a New York theater company produced In the Belly of the Beast Revisited, a play based on Abbott's first book. In 2009, the play Binibon by Elliott Sharp and Jack Womack was presented in New York at The Kitchen, based on the 1981 killing of Richard Adan at the Binibon cafe. The Law & Order season 13 episode "Genius" is based on Abbott's case. In Psycho II, the character of Mary Samuels (Meg Tilly) can be seen reading In the Belly of the Beast. The book is later seen abandoned in the dust outside the Bates Motel. In the 1987 movie Stakeout, the character of Richard Montgomery (Aidan Quinn) has the book In the Belly of the Beast in his prison cell. See also Jack Unterweger, an Austrian murderer who became a celebrated author of an autobiography discussing prison life while in prison and was then released and became a serial killer; after being convicted of another nine murders, he committed suicide by hanging himself with shoelaces and a cord from the trousers of a tracksuit Jean Genet, ex-convict and novelist, whose works address prison life (among other topics) Seth Morgan, ex-convict and novelist, whose book addresses prison life and San Francisco's criminal counterculture References Further reading Fuchs, Christian [1996] (2002). Bad Blood''. Creation Books. External links Comment from Ivan Fisher, attorney for Abbott, following conviction New York Times