The Bloody Chair in Vice City was actually a real-world serial killer reference hiding in plain sight.
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The Bloody Chair in Vice City was actually a real-world serial killer reference hiding in plain sight.

The newspaper portrait 'Vercetti To Die' contains a torture chair that players theorized was the mythic 'Bloody Chair' — but it was actually a reference to Bruno Hauptmann, a real 1930s criminal, not a mafia crime scene. This debunked one of the longest-running Vice City myth connections.

Verdict:Confirmed

Source: Vice City Mafia — CC BY-SA

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