In the early 90’s, Unterweger traveled to Los Angeles and Vienna, leaving a trail of dead prostitutes, strangled to death at his hands. When he was eventually caught and sentenced to a life sentence (just one?), he hanged himself.
“Robert, Richard [Sparstein] and I want to do a movie that is more than a dark serial killer story,” said Landscape Entertainment’s Bob Cooper said. “This is about the power of celebrity, and what happens when this sociopath goes to Los Angeles, a city that is the prototype for reinvention.” Sounds pretty good to me, now we’ll just have to see how close to Unterweger’s true story they stick.