No stranger to helming films about killers, director Brian De Palma (Scarface, The Black Dahlia) has found his next film project. According to The Hollywood Reporter, De Palma has committed to directing The Boston Stranglers for Gale Anne Hurd's Valhalla Motion Pictures.
Based on the book The Boston Stranglers: The Public Conviction of Albert Desalvo and the True Story of Eleven Shocking Murders written by Susan Kelly and published in October 1995, the story examines the controversy surrounding the confession by Henry DeSalvo. Some experts theorize there's no way one person could have been responsible for all of the murders DeSalvo claimed to have committed while acting alone.
The murders of 13 women took place between June 1962 and January 1964 and there was no physical evidence tying DeSalvo to the crime scenes. However in March 1965 DeSalvo confessed to all of the killings. While serving a life sentence in a separate case (he wasn't tried as the Boston Strangler), DeSalvo was stabbed to death in a prison infirmary in November 1973.
De Palma's recent films include The Black Dahlia starring Josh Hartnett and Scarlett Johansson and the dramatic movie Redacted about soldiers fighting in the Iraq War.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
