The True Story Behind Hulu's 'Boston Strangler' Movie

n the wake of a string of popular true-crime adaptations ranging from HBO’s to Netflix’s comes Hulu’s new movie, out March 17. Written and directed by Matt Ruskin ( ), tells the story of 13 women who were murdered in and around Boston in the early 1960s, sometimes referred to as the “Silk Stocking Murders,” from the perspective of the two journalists who broke the story on the connected killings, Loretta McLaughlin (Keira Knightley) and Jean Cole (Carrie Coon). As investigative reporters for the (a predecessor of the ), McLaughlin...