it’s based on a true story is this guy Larry Hall is his name in real life his tactic would be is he murdered a lot of people but he would he would say to the police oh I murdered that girl in that county I’m confessing to it but then they would go through the research and be like no you couldn’t have possibly but he would cop to it and then the cops would be like that’s what he does he confesses to murders he’s a bullshitter but he really was killing people he was confessing to false ones so he