Just like in the movies ...

At times testimony in the John Couey trial became so graphic, jurors had to distance themselves from the proceedings psychologically.

Marvin Gunn, 38, said he tried to imagine the evidence was part of a horror movie.

The jury's film selections helped this effort. One of their first nights together, jurors watched "Saw," a painfully gory flick about the "Jigsaw" serial killer.

That helped with the desensitization process, Gunn said.

-- Elena Lesley