COUPLE BEHIND DOC ‘THE KILLING SEASON’ ON UNCOVERING THE SERIAL MURDER OF SEX WORKERS
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Observer: I read Robert Kolker’s Lost Girls and found it riveting. Is that what inspired you and Josh to start this series?
Rachel Mills: Such carnage, right? A year passes, two years pass, and you think there’s so many bodies this case would be solved. And it just continued not being solved. As we were doing Killer Legends together, Josh would go on the weekends to Long Island to start working on this story. He thought it was going to be a documentary, like maybe a two-hour documentary. He’s from the area: he was born in Sea Cliff, grew up in Glen Cove and then moved to Staten Island. I think it’s north shore, I don’t think it’s too close.
One of our first interviews was Bob Kolker, who wrote Lost Girls. We started with that, but then we started to see these eerie connections, these eerie similarities to cases across the country......
Joshua Zeman: I was really making the show for people who’d read Lost Girls, and then wanted to know what happened next. And I love to see Kolker write an after series.....
