Go to this link:
http://moviejuice.com/2012/07/14/interview-with-harrison-smith-writer-of-the-fields/
The writer based it on his own experience with his grandparents in the early 1970s. He doesn't describe the murder case, other than to say that "there was one death."
Here, I'll let him speak for himself.
"It’s a semi-autobiographical account of what happened to me as a boy growing up right on the outskirts of Easton, Pennsylvania. It’s very accurate in the portrayal of my grandparents. My grandmother is played by Cloris Leachman in the film, and the events took place right around the late fall of 1973....
"There was one death, I don’t want to say how that death happened to give away any spoilers, but some things were embellished because you need to to make a movie. However, it wasn’t straight carnage or anything like that. But the film definitely focuses on the terror and the attacks on the farm are all very accurate."
So there was a death but the writer won't go into detail because he doesn't want to spoint the movie. A farmhouse was attacked. The deserted Bushkill Amusement Park shown in the film is real and still there. It was in operation continuously from the early 20th century until 2004, so would not have been abandoned in 1973, the time setting of the movie.
But how the death and the terror at the farmhouse are related, nobody is saying.
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