Gerald Foos
publication date: Friday, October 18, 2019 (part of Fall 2019)
category: 
Controversy
clue: This hotelier's favorite songs could be the Police's "Every Breath You Take," Rockwell's "Somebody's Watching Me," and Kim Carnes's "Voyeur."
explanation: Foos was the subject of a 2016 New Yorker article (later turned into the Netflix documentary Voyeur) that detailed his many years of spying on the guests at his Colorado hotel having sex. more…
intended difficulty: medium
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, LaVonne Lemler, Samir Mehta, Chris Lemler, Matthew Preston, and Erik Bates
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