Welcome back to Truth in Lies, the Boston Strangler. I'm your host, Dick Lair. In the

first three episodes, we took you back to Boston in the 1960s when a dangerous murder

paralyzed the city with fear. Much of this fear was captured in the articles written

by Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole, two hard-charging women reporters at the record-American

newspaper. They told the story of the Boston Strangler. And now, 60 years after the murders,

their own story is being told through a 20th century studio's film, now streaming on

Hula.

The film, a fictional retelling based on real events, stars Kira Knightley and Carrie

Kuhn as Loretta and Jean, piecing together clues about the Strangler.

Turns out Paul Dempsey was a suspect and a murderer in Maine four years before the first

Strangler murder. The victim was an elderly woman found strangle with her stockings tied

around her neck. It could be the original Strangler murder, but no one can get Boston

homicide to look into it. And this cop in New York will go on the record.

I already did. When I run into a head job on the police department.

I'm not sure how long we can keep ignoring it.

I don't know how many times we have to tell you, but we're not doing it.

I don't know, Eddie. I mean, she's right. We can't keep looking the other way.

The film is the creation of writer and director Matt Ruskin, who's taken other true stories

and turned them into feature films. In 2017, Matt wrote and produced Crown Heights, a story

about a man wrongfully convicted of a murder, and his best friend who spent 20 years trying

to get him out of prison. I asked Matt about the weight of accountability when you're trying

to tell a true story like you did with the men in Crown Heights.

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