Fred Sexton was a friend of this guy, George Hodel.

Now, James Ellroy believes that Fred Sexton, the sculptor of the Maltese Falcon, killed James Elroy's mother.

And it's beautiful. And I can state with authority at this point in time, when I'd finished it, of all of the replicas out there and there is a few this is by far the most accurate representation of the original Maltese Falcon than anyone has sculpted. Now the original one, I should tell you, is sculpted by a guy named Fred Sexton.