Keira Knightley Investigates the Grisly '60s Murders in Matt Ruskin's 'Boston Strangler'
Premiering this year on Hulu.
The trailer for Matt Ruskin’s Boston Strangler is here.
The upcoming true crime thriller follows Keira Knightley and is based on the real life investigations into the murders committed by the Boston Strangler. Knightley portrays Loretta McLaughlin while Carrie Coon plays Jean Cole, the two Record-American journalists who broke the story of the Boston Strangler while facing rampant sexism and putting themselves at personal risk by uncovering the identity of the notorious killer. The trailer shows McLaughlin and Cole get shut down by the editor when they asked to follow the story, although they had figured out early on that the murders were somehow connected.
Joining Knightley and Coon in the cast are Alessandro Nivola, Chris Cooper, David Dastmalchian, Morgan Spector, Robert John Burke, Bill Camp and Rory Cochrane. Ridley Scott served as producer alongside Kevin J. Walsh, Michael Pruss, Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara.
The Boston Strangler, who was suspected to be Albert DeSalvo, was responsible for the murder of 13 women in the ’60s. DeSalvo was sentenced to life in prison and managed to escape once before turning himself in again, and was eventually stabbed to death in prison in 1973. In 2013, DNA evidence confirmed that DeSalvo was connected to the murder of 19-year-old Mary Sullivan — one of the Boston Strangler’s victims — in 1964.
Watch the trailer above. Boston Strangler premieres March 14 on Hulu.
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