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Mar 2023
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Boston Strangler, E4: Director Matt Rusk...

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A conversation with the "Boston Strangler" film writer and director Matt Ruskin about why he chose to reexamine the Stranger story through the lens of two crusading women reporters who covered the crimes.

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