Voyeur plot
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Journalist Gay Talese investigates one of the most controversial stories of his career: a motel owner who has been spying on guests for years. On January 7, 1980, Gay Talese receives an anonymous letter from a Colorado man. The man - a father of two children - tells that he bought a motel fifteen years earlier, with the sole reason to satisfy his voyeuristic desire. Together with his wife, he installed a grid above each room, from where he spied on his guests all these years. At the beginning of 2013, Foos thinks it's time to come out with his story. On April 11, 2016 the long read The Voyeur's Motel will be published in The New Yorker; a storm of controversy ensues. Why did Talese let Gerald Foos do his thing all these years? And above all: why did Talese never go to the police?