In Popular Culture
- The CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode Bloodsport (CSI episode), aired October 29, 2009, features an attack similar to the one Christopher Porco was convicted of. A college football coach is attacked in his bed during the night. Much like Peter Porco, the coach receives massive head injuries and blood loss from the attack, but still manages (as if by autopilot) to get up in the morning when his alarm goes off, going downstairs, pouring coffee and making breakfast before going outside to get the paper, where he finally collapses from his injuries.
- James Patterson's book The 8th Confession of the Women's Murder Club series features an almost identical case. A woman having money problems murders her parents for the inheritance, but her mother barely survives. While her mother names her daughter as the attacker at the scene, after her recovery she claims she does not remember the attack and stands by her daughter's innocence. The book even cites similar evidence, such as eyewitness testimony of the daughter's car by a neighbor and tollbooth workers.
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