‘Boston Strangler’ Is Bleak in All the Wrong Ways

DREARY

In the early 1960s, a Boston-based female reporter uncovered the case of a series of brutal murders. The film, however, wastes the source material.

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Boston in the early 1960s was a bleak place courtesy of the Boston Strangler, a mysterious fiend who preyed upon unsuspecting single women of various ages in their apartments.

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