As serial killers are drawn to a similar type of victim, so the pedophile Fox was obviously drawn to a distinct type of victim: slender, petite, pale-skinned, with delicate doll-like features, inclined to passivity, trust. The dreamy girls in the Balthus paintings—(Zwender has researched the French-Polish painter, the very epitome of European decadence!)—wan, with sleepy eyelids, incapable of pushing away an ardent predator-lover.
