 The police photographer who knows when people will die is named  Alfred Fellig. He was named after Usher "Arthur" Fellig, better  known as "Weegee", a police photographer who became notorious in the  1930s and 1940s for taking gruesome crime scene photos. Like the  eponymous character in "Tithonus", Weegee owned a police scanner,  which often enabled him to get to crime scenes before the police.  Unlike the X Files character, Weegee was not really psychic,  although police gave him his nickname (a variation of "oujia") after  joking that he was. See also the trivia section for  _Road to Perdition (2002)_ (qv).