True story>>jame hoyt and kristen mckay?

Question

okay i need to know if this really happened... ik that it said it was in the beginging of "strangers" but i cant find ANYTHING on it. I'mn begining to think its not true... could someone plz tell me if its true or not... and if it is please send me something that i can look at and read bout it... i would like to follow up on this story... please and thank you! ☺

Answer 1

From what I've been able to find, this is not a real story. It was inspired from an event during the childhood of director Bryan Bertino, in which a stranger came to his home asking for someone who did not live there. Later, he learned that some homes in his neighborhood had been burglarized. There were two other murder cases which also provided inspiration for this movie. One was the Manson murders and the other was at Keddie Resort, in a remote area in California where three people were found tied up and beaten and stabbed to death in a cabin. A fourth victim's body was found dumped months later some 90 miles away.