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Boston Strangler The Untold Story

Boston Strangler The Untold Story

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jul 22, 2008

Runtime

1h 30m

Genres

Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

User Score

37%

Original Title

Boston Strangler The Untold Story

Production Companies

KSM Film

Director

Michael Feifer

Description

Boston Strangler: The Untold Story is an intense true-crime thriller about Albert De Salvo, a wise cracking, small time criminal with an unrelenting sex drive, who ultimately falsely confesses to being the strangler that wreaked havoc in Boston during the early sixties. Guided by his manipulative cell mate, who knows more about the murders than he reveals, they devise a plan to gain all of the notoriety from the killings and the money from the reward. Meanwhile, Detective John Marsden, searches out the truth certain that they were not committed by one man. Fighting the bureaucracy of the day, Marsden lets his emotions get the best of him as he follows the trail of the murders.