Main Research to help me make my Treatment

Throughout the past summer, my dad was reading a book called ‘Lost Girls.. An Unsolved American Mystery’ by Robert Kolker. This book is about the murders of female prostitutes in Long Island, New York, by a suspected serial killer. Although the book focuses on only five of the murders – as those five corpses were found in the same area, in a similar fashion – there were in fact 17 murders of prostitutes over 15 years, all suspected to be done by the same person. Mysteriously, the serial killer is yet to be found, as even though there were suspects, there just wasn’t enough evidence to make a proper case.

From finding great interest in this story, I decided to use it for my thriller, but instead of following the exact same plot (which would also be difficult as I am based in London) I decided to manipulate the story. So, in a nutshell, my thriller will be about the murders of male teenage drug dealers that come from a middle-class background in London, by a suspected serial killer. It will follow the unfolding investigation of a young rookie policeman in North-West London, and the struggles and mysteries he encounters along the way.