ARTICLES BASED ON OUR IDEA

ARTICLE ONE:

Acid house of horror: Murder hunt for family who DISSOLVED victims' bodies in baths... then flushed leftover 'sludge' down the loo

• Two members of family of five on the run in South America
• One victim had throat slashed with icepick and another gunned down in hail of bullets
• Police called after neighbours notice 'peculiar' smell coming from house
• Gas masks found where killers used hydrochloric acid to dispose of corpses

A family of five murdered two men and dissolved their bodies in acid baths at home - before flushing the leftover 'sludge' down the lavatory.

Police said the family are from Holland but used the house in Germany as a 'chop shop' to dispose of their victims, who they killed with an icepick and a semi-automatic gun.

An international manhunt is now underway after two of the killers went on the run in South America.

Grisly: Alan Gergeri, left, was killed with an icepick while Mohammed al Jader, right, was cut down in a hail of bullets last year, allegedly for trying to blackmail the family. Their bodies were dissolved in acid

Evidence: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2118054/Murder-hunt-family-dissolved-victims-bodies-bath-ACID--flushed-sludge-loo.html

ARTICLE TWO:

Teen girl home alone hears burglars breaking in; suspect causes crash while fleeing police 

SANDY, Utah — Two people suffered minor injuries after a crash caused by a suspect who was fleeing from police responding to reports of a burglary, and officers said a 15-year-old girl was home alone when she heard the burglars breaking glass to enter the residence. Sandy Police Department personnel at the scene said things began when a 15-year-old girl heard glass breaking and called her parents, who in turn called police. When officers arrived, they found signs of forced entry. Prior to police entering the home, the garage door opened and two suspects sped out in a black Toyota Camry, which authorities later determined the suspects had backed into the garage after making entry into the home.

Evidence: http://fox13now.com/2015/09/16/teen-girl-home-alone-hears-burglars-breaking-in-suspect-causes-crash-while-fleeing-police/

ARTICLE THREE: hn

Burglars tied up and threatened to kill home-alone girl, 13

A 13-year-old girl who was tied up by a pair of burglars who threatened to kill her has been left "traumatised". Two men threw a paving slab through a window to break into her house in Hollinwood, Oldham while she was home alone at about 19:45 GMT on Wednesday.

Police said they tied her hands and feet with a phone cable and threatened her with a knife, saying they would "cut off your fingers" and "kill you". They left empty-handed in a car after ransacking the house for 45 minutes. One of the men was described as black, in his 30s, of a medium build and about 6ft (1.80m) tall, while the other was said to be white, in his 20s, taller than the other man and skinny.

Greater Manchester Police Det Insp Lewis Hughes said the girl had faced a "horrific and traumatising ordeal".

"I cannot imagine how awful that must have been for her, and for her family once they discovered what had happened to their little girl. 

"For two grown men to do something like this to a child shows exactly the type of people we are dealing with - they are ruthless, heartless and must be brought to justice as swiftly as possible."

Evidence: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-31649980

Researching articles which are similar to our thriller, allowed us to ensure we make our thriller appear as realistic as possible. This is because we want the audience to feel as anxious and terrified as possible. Overall, these articles reconfirmed what we had collected from audience feedback from of our idea; it is extremely unrealistic for someone to call the police to seek help after just two strange phone calls. Therefore we have now decided that she will go and   'investigate' the strange noises coming from upstairs. This is because curiosity is a natural instinct, hence making our opening sequence of our thriller more realistic. Moreover, although in article two the victim does turn to the police for solace, this is due to her noticing the break in; however we want to create our victim as being innocent and naive and hence she does not realise the danger which is at her forefront. Therefore, our victim in our opening sequence of our thriller is represented as being a stereotypical ignorant and naive teenage girl. Lastly, both article one and two reinforce the concept of having our victim being a teenage girl, seeing as both these real life situations involved teenage girls; therefore acquiring a teenage girl as the victim in the opening of our film sequence is realistic.