Albert Henry DeSalvo is the name of the confessed murderer of 13 single women in the American state of Massachusetts, between June 14, 1962 and January 4, 1964, strangled with their own clothes after being sexually assaulted in their apartments. A controversial and mysterious case, with numerous gaps, for which he was sentenced to life imprisonment, and after escaping from his prison and later turning himself in, he was transferred to the Walpole maximum security prison, where he renounced his confessions. .
Fear and suffocation in Massachusetts
In 1968, the acclaimed director and producer Richard Fleischerwinner of the Oscar in 1948 for best documentary for Design for Deathfilmed the crime thriller The Boston Stranglerabout the complex persecution of the author of the brutal murders, based on the best seller by Gerold Frank. Tony Curtis was nominated for a Golden Globe for his starring performance as the notorious serial killer, while Henry Fonda was Assistant District Attorney John S. Bottomly, tasked with coordinating the efforts of four police departments with jurisdiction over the various locations where the crimes appeared. victims.
The real story is now being told again by the hand of 20th Century Studios with a totally different point of view in the film of the same name that will be released soon, on March 17 in Disney+ in Spain, while in the United States it can be seen on Huluas the platforms revealed this week with a first preview.
It is written and directed by Matt Ruskin (Crown Heights, infiltrated) who focuses on two reporters from the Record-American newspaper who discover the relationship between the crimes and start a dangerous parallel investigation with the police. Keira Knightley (Pride and Prejudice) y Carrie Coon (lost) are journalists Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole, who challenged early 1960s sexism in their profession to report on the city’s most notorious criminal endangering their own lives. An approach similar to the investigation initiated by the intern of the newspaper Sur Miren Rojo (taken to the screen by the actress Milena Smit) in the television adaptation of the novel the snow girl by Javier Castillo, a complete success on Netflix. The cast is completed with Alexander Nivola (Amsterdam), born in Boston in 1972, Chris Cooper (American Beauty) y David Dastmalchian (the suicide squad).
Inspired by a true story
As the creator of the new The Boston Stranglerwho grew up in the populous capital and has heard about the character her entire life, is an “incredibly complex mystery, full of unexpected twists and turns, as much about the city and the time as it is about the identity of this serial killer.”
In addition, the film produced by Ridley Scott and filmed in the main town in December 2021 and January 2022 is complemented by the ABC Audio podcast Truth and Lies: The Boston Strangler, premiering on Wednesday March 1 and available for free on major listening platforms. Renowned journalist and writer Dick Lehr presents the three-part narrative series based on the ABC News archives and features new interviews with family members of those implicated in the case.
