The film debuting on Hulu this week revisits the saga from the point of view of one of two women who covered the killings for the city’s Record-American newspaper
Although the Boston Strangler murders occurred about 50 years ago, the murky story of who exactly killed several unmarried women in and around the Massachusetts city — and why — remains a fascinating if also gruesome subject.
Written and directed by Matt Ruskin, “Boston Strangler” begins with a murder in 1965 in Ann Arbor, Mich. As with the deaths that follow — taking place only a few years earlier in Massachusetts — Ruskin isn’t interested in glorifying the acts by portraying them with the frame, but he lets us hear them, which is horrifying enough.
In Boston in 1962, Loretta McLaughlin , a married mother of three, is languishing on the lifestyle desk at the Record American. She wants to cover hard news, but her editor, Jack MacLaine , isn’t interested. Understandably, Loretta is envious of a female colleague, Jean Cole , who writes investigative pieces for the publication.
With the possible exception of her deciding, understandably, not to follow a person of interest deep into his apartment, we see fearless reporting by Loretta as she seeks out suspects and cultivates police sources such as Jim Conley , a homicide detective working the case.
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