In Popular Culture
This case was the inspiration for episode 19 of the 6th season of the CBS television show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation entitled I Like to Watch, which aired March 9, 2006. In this episode, a serial rapist poses as a firefighter, setting small blazes to gain entry to apartments, where he drugs women and sexually assaults them, focusing mainly on their feet.
An episode of I (Almost) Got Away With It featured the Braunstein case and his time on the run in the weeks following. Braunstein cooperated for the program and his comments provided insight into his thinking at the time of his crimes and the manhunt.
Braunstein's case also inspired a subplot in the comic book Ex Machina.
Read more about this topic: Peter Braunstein
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