Riley Keough sitting in a car in Under the Bridge Episode 2
The Big Picture The real-life murder of 14-year-old Reena Virk in 1997 rocked the small community of Saanich, British Columbia. The brutal and shocking crime earned major media attention when it occurred. When creator Quinn Shephard decided to make a television series about the events surrounding Reena's death, she turned to the source material for the show, a 2005 non-fiction exploration of the crime called Under the Bridge by Rebecca Godfrey.
Under the Bridge TV-MACrime 810 Reena Virk, a fourteen-year-old girl went to join friends at a party and never returned home. Seven teenage girls and a boy were accused of the savage murder. Under the Bridge was released in 2005. Godfrey had previously published another book, The Torn Skirt, in 2001; this book also focused on a coming-of-age story but was a fictional look at the same themes. But it was Under the Bridge that would earn Godfrey immense praise from critics and readers alike. Her work even garnered comparisons to another true-crime classic, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. Similar to that 1966 book, both Capote and Godfrey inserted themselves into the action .
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