However, the day before, Abbott had killed waiter Richard Adan during a dispute at a restaurant called Binibon on 2nd Avenue in the East Village of New York City.

[1] In 1983–1985, William Petersen starred in several stage performances based on the book, for which he received a Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Actor.

[2] In 2004, the New York City theatre company 29th Street Rep ran a play based on the book, named In the Belly of the Beast Revisited.

[5] The Australian movie Ghosts… of the Civil Dead, directed by John Hillcoat, was largely influenced by In the Belly of the Beast.

[6] In Psycho II Meg Tilly's character is reading a copy of Belly of the Beast, while staying over in the Bates house.