Documentary filmmaker Rachel Mason ('Circus of Books') unlocks the case of Billy London, whose gruesome killing was set against a backdrop of homophobia and AIDS.

A very cold case from 1990 gets reheated in “My Brother’s Killer.” Rachel Mason’s documentary probes the mysterious murder that year of 25-year-old William Arnold Newton, who had appeared in several gay porn films as “Billy London.” That modest notoriety, combined with the macabre nature of the deed and its unsolved status for decades, lured […]

The gruesome, unsolved killing was known as the “gay Black Dahlia.” Director Rachel Mason solved it in 'My Brother's Killer,' premiering at SXSW.