1969: Killers, Freaks and Radicals

Saturday, August 8 at 7:00 PM
Michigan

Film | Documentary/Crime | NR | 1h 51m | 2025

Featuring a post-film discussion with director Andrew Templeton

WINNER of the Audience Award for Best U.S. Documentary at the 2025 Cinetopia Film Festival!

Amid the radical politics and cultural upheaval of the late 1960s, a series of brutal murders targeting young women gripped the twin university towns of Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, Michigan. Home to the University of Michigan and Eastern Michigan University, the communities grew increasingly anxious as police seemed unable to stop the killer—or killers—responsible.

Through interviews with law enforcement, political figures, and women who lived through the fear, this independent documentary examines not just a series of crimes, but the social and political tensions that enabled them—many of which still resonate today."