Scott Rosenbaum (pictured), showrunner of USA Network's Queen of the South, is adapting Maureen Callahan's book American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century into a television series.
Israel Keyes was a predator who struck across the United States. He buried “kill kits”—money, weapons, and body disposal tools—in remote locations across the country. Over the course of fourteen years, he would fly into a city, rent a car, and drive thousands of miles to deploy his kits. He would break into a stranger’s home, kidnap his victims during the day, and kill and dispose of them in a matter of hours. Then he would return to Alaska, where he resumed his life as a quiet, reliable construction worker devoted to his only daughter.
Published in 2019 by Penguin Random House, the book reveals the true story behind how the FBI eventually captured Keyes and attempts to understand what it means for a killer like Keyes to exist, a murderer who left a trail of monstrous, random crimes in his wake, many of which remain unsolved to this day.
Rosenbaum also serves as an executive producer on series such as Fox's Gang Related, NBC's Chuck and ABC's V (2009), and recently created the pirate drama Sandokan for Fremantle and Italy's Lux Vide.