Casey Affleck Eyes Boston Strangler Project

Casey Affleck has set his sights on a famous serial killer case with a script called Boston Strangler, Deadline reports.

He'll executive produce and likely star as a detective investigating a series of murders that, to this day, are not wholly solved.

Chuck Maclean has been tasked with adapting the true story of the year-and-a-half long serial murders that claimed more than a dozen women's lives in Boston in the early 1960s. A man, Albert DeSalvo, was later arrested and confessed to the crimes although there's significant doubt as to whether or not he was the only party involved.