 Maguires crime scene photography work is based on Arthur  Weegee Fellig (qv), a photographer who was licensed to possess a  "scanner" radio that allowed him to listen to frequencies used by  the police and fire departments. This enabled him to arrive (by car)  at crime and fire scenes, sometimes before the authorities did, as  if informed by telepathic powers, to which his nickname, a  corruption of "Ouija", alludes. He sold his photos to the tabloid  newspapers. The photos in Maguires apartment are real 1930s crime  scene photos, some of which were taken by Weegee himself.