Back in the 1960s, women didn’t do much investigative reporting, especially of murder cases.

That makes the story of Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole evern more remarkable. Hulu is chronicling the story of the two reporters in Boston Strangler, a new film from 20th Century Studios following them as they discovered a link between a series of murders that eluded even the police.

In the movie, premiering March 17th on Hulu, Kiera Knightly plays Loretta McLaughlin and Carrie Coon stars as Cole. The show will have a companion podcast called Truth and Lies: The Boston Strangler from ABC Audio, which will launch March 1st.

Per the film’s official tagline, “After the bodies of three elderly women are discovered, Loretta McLaughlin, a reporter for the Record-American newspaper, is the first journalist to publish a story connecting the crimes. As the mysterious killer claims more and more victims, Loretta attempts to continue her investigation alongside colleague and confidant Jean Cole, yet the duo finds themselves stymied by the rampant sexism of the era. Nevertheless, McLaughlin and Cole bravely pursue the story at great personal risk, putting their own lives on the line in their quest to uncover the truth.”

Between 1962 and 1964, more than a dozen single women aged 19 to 85 were murdered in the greater Boston area. The work of two reporters led to the story of the notorious Boston Strangler being uncovered.

McLaughlin wrote a four-part series with Cole about the murders, which first coined the “Boston Strangler” moniker. She has to overcome the misogyny endemic to the era, like having an editor (Chris Cooper, Adaptation) who doubts her ability, fellow reporters who think assigning two women to the story is a publicity stunt, and the police who can’t close the case.

“You’re on the lifestyle desk,” Cooper says in the trailer. “You’re not covering a homicide.”

The movie was written and directed by Matt Ruskin, and also stars Alessandro Nivola (Amsterdam), David Dastmalchian (Dune), Morgan Spector (Homeland), and Bill Camp (Joker). It was produced by Ridley Scott (The Martian), Kevin J. Walsh (House of Gucci), Michael Pruss (American Woman), Josey McNamara (Promising Young Woman) and Tom Ackerley (I, Tonya).

Ruskin told IndieWire that he spent over a year researching the Boston Strangler and reporters Cole and McLaughlin before writing the script. Films like Good Night and Good Luck, Zodiac, and All the Presidents’ Men, served as his inspiration for the project.

The podcast, hosted by Dick Lehr, a long-time Boston Globe journalist, will recount some of the ways investigators took to obtain clues and search for suspects, including bringing in a Dutch psychic. Rather than just focusing on the killer, it will share details about the lives of the victims, how the families dealt with their trauma, and how the city of Boston responded to having a murderer in their midst for two years.