 The moral panic was not confined solely to the gender of the murderers , but also the role played by so @-@ called " video nasties " . The news media immediately made a connection between the Bulger murder trial and the Capper murder trial when the horror movie Child 's Play 3 : Look Who 's Stalking was mentioned as part of the testimonies . D.I. Wall said " throughout interviews with the accused there was no suggestion that the reason Suzanne was killed had anything to do with Child 's Play " but this was overlooked by more sensationalist headlines ( Demonic doll Chucky links the horror crimes ; The curse of Chucky ) . Neither Powell or McNeilly owned a video recorder , and the Child 's Play – inspired music that had been used to torture Capper was a popular track at the time , taped direct from Manchester 's Piccadilly Radio . Broadcaster David Elstein called the video connection " a false story ... branded into the consciousness of the media , " and questioned the news media 's fascination with the film : " There is no reason to believe that Suzanne Capper would be alive today if the audiotape had instead contained the torture scene from King Lear , or a catchphrase from Bruce Forsyth ... But the Child 's Play hare has been running ever since the last day of the James Bulger murder trial . " Elstein argued that the film was simply a scapegoat which the press " made a three @-@ course meal out of . " The Guardian reported that 21 @,@ 000 four – nine @-@ year @-@ olds watched each of BSkyB 's two transmissions of Child 's Play 3 – but Elstein explained the figure was " simply a projection based on an average of just two actual viewers from BARB 's reporting panel , and that the margin of error means even the two may have been just one . But why spoil a good running story by asking what the figures mean ? " 
