When Gil Carrillo joined the homicide division at the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department in the early Eighties, his future partner Frank Salerno was already something of a celebrity. He had recently collared the so-called Hillside Strangler, a.k.a. cousins Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono Jr., a serial killer duo who terrorized the L.A. area in the late Seventies, raping, torturing, and killing 10 women.
“When I met Frank; he was going through the trial for the Hillside Strangler,” Carrillo tells Rolling Stone. “I asked him about it and he said,...
“When I met Frank; he was going through the trial for the Hillside Strangler,” Carrillo tells Rolling Stone. “I asked him about it and he said,...
- 2/10/2021
- by Brenna Ehrlich
- Rollingstone.com
CBS has put in development a new crime drama currently titled Ralph Lamb, a project set in the early ’60s from Goodfellas writer Nicholas Pileggi, based on the true story of Ralph Lamb, a cowboy-turned-Las Vegas sheriff in the ’60s and ’70s.
Lamb was best known for his tenure as sheriff of Clark County, but also bringing in for the time the most modern ways to execute police work (crime labs, Swat, etc.). He also oversaw the merger of the Las Vegas and the county law enforcement agencies into the Metropolitan Police Department.
It will be interesting to see how much time this series covers of Lamb’s career. What is the most intriguing his going to be his run in with the mob. CBS is the third primetime network to embrace a 60s era series in the post-Mad Men era. NBC will unveil The Playboy Club this fall and...
Lamb was best known for his tenure as sheriff of Clark County, but also bringing in for the time the most modern ways to execute police work (crime labs, Swat, etc.). He also oversaw the merger of the Las Vegas and the county law enforcement agencies into the Metropolitan Police Department.
It will be interesting to see how much time this series covers of Lamb’s career. What is the most intriguing his going to be his run in with the mob. CBS is the third primetime network to embrace a 60s era series in the post-Mad Men era. NBC will unveil The Playboy Club this fall and...
- 8/17/2011
- by Kevin Coll
- FusedFilm
The Shield creator Shawn Ryan and Criminal Minds' Simon Mirren have teamed up for a crime drama pilot at CBS, Deadline reports.
The untitled procedural tells the story of genetic scientist who learns he has a psychopath gene but uses it to help the FBI catch killers. The premise is based on the work of James Fallon, a University of California, Irvine professor who discovered he was genetically linked to string of serial murderers.
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The untitled procedural tells the story of genetic scientist who learns he has a psychopath gene but uses it to help the FBI catch killers. The premise is based on the work of James Fallon, a University of California, Irvine professor who discovered he was genetically linked to string of serial murderers.
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- 8/12/2011
- by Robyn Ross
- TVGuide - Breaking News
In their first development season at Sony Pictures TV, showrunners Shawn Ryan and Simon Mirren have teamed for a crime drama. The untitled project has sold to CBS, where Mirren recently served as co-showrunner on Criminal Minds, with a put pilot commitment. The drama, which Mirren will write, does evoke Criminal Minds as well as Showtime's drama Dexter. It is a procedural about a genetic scientist who uses his newfound discovery that he has the psychopath gene to help the FBI catch killers. The show, which Ryan and Mirren are executive producing, is inspired by the true story of Uc Irvine Professor James Fallon, a brilliant but genetically flawed scientist who, while helping to unlock the mysteries of the genome code, discovered that he was a psychopath linked to a long line of serial killers, including axe murderer Lizzie Borden. The deal extends the trend this development season for the...
- 8/12/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
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