No, Laura Palmer wasn’t a real person, but the murder mystery at the center of David Lynch’s television series “Twin Peaks” was actually inspired by a real-life case. Story goes that co-creator Mark Frost was told about the 1908 murder of Hazel Irene Drew by his grandmother as a child, which ended up serving as the basis for “Twin Peaks.”
Authors David Bushman and Mark Givens (host of the “Twin Peaks” podcast “Deer Meadow Radio”) are diving deep into the mystery surrounding Drew’s unsolved murder in Blonde, Beautiful, and Dead: The Murder Mystery That Inspired Twin Peaks, a Metabook scheduled for release in 2019. Via The Wrap, the Metabook is then getting a TV adaptation.
Part2 Pictures has optioned the project, which they plan on turning into a TV docuseries. Part2 and Metabook Films will shop it to premium cable networks and streaming platforms.