Word: strangler
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Centrella certainly sounds casual about the case, possibly because this kind of pitch dark mystery is nothing new to him. He worked on the still-unsolved Boston Strangler Case and gets calls just about every day from police officers all over the country responding to his a.p.b...
...Angeles County. The move was surprising, though not without precedent. In a typical year, about 10 felony trials are moved in California. But it's been more than a decade since one was moved out of Los Angeles, where even such celebrity monsters as Charles Manson and the Hillside Strangler were tried locally. And there was no place in California -- or the nation for that matter -- where people had not seen and reacted to the King videotape...
Meanwhile, the Vigilante groups roam the streets and fight over who will protect the townsfolk from the strangler (who sometimes slits victims throats from ear to ear but "mostly strangles...
...Santo Loquasto. Narrow cobblestone streets, gaslights and footbridges enhance the gloomy atmosphere. Shimmery ponds and a fake night sky further increase the mood and the comedy. Allen establishes the tone of the picture when a mystic (Charles Cragin), who uses his sense of smell to sniff out the strangler, leads to a torch-bearing mob through the winding streets...
WOODY ALLEN THE MAN evades the media as easily as the strangler of Shadows and Fog escaped his pursuers. To his public, he remains a brilliant mystery who presents them with a unique film each year. When not in the middle of film production, Allen constantly writes screenplays...