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Mar 16, 2023 · The Tenacious Women Reporters Who Helped Expose the Boston Strangler. A new film explores Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole’s efforts to unmask a serial killer believed to have murdered 13 women ...
Mar 20, 2023 · Coon: And Keira was the reason I did [Boston Strangler], aside from Matt Ruskin, our writer-director, who I really adore.He’s a deeply moral filmmaker and a feminist. Absolutely. But of course I ...
- Keira Knightley as Loretta Mclaughlin
- Carrie Coon as Jean Cole
- Alessandro Nivola as Detective Conley
- Chris Cooper as Jack Maclaine
- Bill Camp as Edmund Mcnamara
- David Dastmalchian as Albert Desalvo
Loretta McLaughlin was a journalist for the Boston Record American, now known as the Boston Herald, in the 1960s. Along with another character on this list, she's famous for having publicized information on the Boston Strangler, after a long investigation into the case. She ended up writing a series of articles on the case. Keira Knightley is a rec...
Like McLaughlin, Jean Cole investigated the Boston Strangler case at the Boston Record American, tying together seemingly-unrelated cases to inform the public of the threat. She was more of a veteran reporter than McLaughlin, bringing lots of expertise to the case. Coon has actually portrayed a similar role to this before, playing Washington Post w...
The journalists can only go so far in a murder investigation without bumping into the police, and Joan and Loretta's closest contact is Detective Conley, who's hunting for the strangler just like they are. Conley ends up bring McLaughlin's closest ally in the hunt, as they share lots of information, even if he doesn't see it to its end. Alessandro ...
Jean and Loretta's editor, Jack MacLaine is the person who has to look after his young writers, first shutting them down but then trying to figure out what to do with the knowledge they find, when they press on without his consent and want to run a story. When push comes to shove he stands up for his writers, even if his choice to hire women to wri...
Edmund McNamara is a real figure, who wasn't invented for Boston Strangler. He was newly appointed as Boston's police commissioner in 1982, and the murders fell right at the beginning of his role (as did many other city problems, like racial conflict and police brutality). In the movie, however, he's not keen on the reporters pointing out the polic...
Albert DeSalvo ends up being one of the key suspects in the case of the Boston Strangler, and while he's certainly a creepy person, not everyone is convinced it's him. David Dalmachian may be newer to acting than some of the other names in this list, with his first credited movie role being 2008's The Dark Knight, but since then he's been in loads....
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Mar 20, 2023 · The case has been the subject of numerous books and films but Boston Strangler, written and directed by Matt Ruskin, is the first to foreground two reporters who linked the murders to a single ...
Mar 16, 2023 · ‘Boston Strangler’ is film set in the true crime genre, but it showcases so much more about what really goes on behind closed doors from professional departments, to domestic situations. It’s a thriller, it’s a mystery, and it’s also a provocative investigation into why stifled voices may hold the key to breaking something important open.
Mar 17, 2023 · March 17, 2023. 2. “ Boston Strangler ,” Hulu’s new true crime movie, examines the infamous 1960s murders through the eyes of two reporters who helped to bring the case to the public’s ...
Mar 17, 2023 · Notably, Nassar was out of prison when the Boston Strangler murders began. When survivors were called in to identify the Strangler, two indicated Nassar as their attacker, not DeSalvo. Speculation ...
