I can't find a wikipedia article about what happened to Kirsten McKay James Hoyt on February 11, 2005...?

Question

Can anyone give me a link?

All I can find is an article about 'The Strangers' film.

Does anybody know what the case was called?

Answer 1

The event is fictional, but inspired by an incident in which strangers came to the door of the home of Bryan Bertino, the writer/directer of the movie, when he was a child.

The information is in the Wikipedia article on the movie, sourced by the production notes of the movie at http://b985.com/movies/notes/strangers/n...

Answer 2

It is not true at all, its based on many different story.

This is the real answer.

I found this article from the Austin Chronicle The director tells where the inspiration came from and if was true.

Austin Chronicle: The Strangers opens on a note that says, essentially, this film is based on actual events. What exactly was your inspiration, or what were those events?

Bryan Bertino: When I was a little kid, I lived in a little town near Fort Worth called Mingus, and when I was 12 years old, my dad gave me a book to read called Helter Skelter. I don't know what my dad was thinking, but the book really grabbed me, and I ended up reading it. I've always been fascinated by the Tate killings, the strangeness of that night, the idea that they were just there, in this house, and at least from their point of view – the victim's point of view – they had no idea. Obviously, Manson had been to that house in other circumstances, but for them, for the victims, it was just another 12 o'clock at night, and some people wandered in. That was something that caught in my mind, and so when I decided I wanted to write a genre film, I started thinking about victims, thinking about obituaries, and thinking about all those stories you hear over the years about someone who's been killed and what it must have been like for them, the randomness of it.

We end up reading the newspapers 50 times, and we have a much more complete picture of events: We find out that, oh, that terrible guy was abused by his grandmother or whatever. But the victims had no way to know that.

AC: Was The Strangers based on a specific incident?

BB: Well, the other thing that got me going was that when I was that little kid, I lived on a house, on a road, in the middle of nowhere, and one night when my parents were gone and it was just me and my little sister, somebody started knocking on our doors. As it turned out, it was burglars, and any house where no one answered the door, they'd break in and steal everything. But we didn't know that at the time, and my 9-year-old sister opened the door. And these people asked for some made-up person and then moved on. We didn't find out what was really going on until the next morning when the cops were down the street. And I used that, you know, I began thinking about that level of randomness and the idea of someone knocking on your door in the middle of the night and not hoping that nobody would be there but, instead, hoping that somebody would. That's where The Strangers came from