A new movie is renewing the city’s fascination with the brilliant, beautiful college student who led a second life as a prostitute and killer in the 1970s.
The movie — “Winter of Frozen Dreams” — is debuting Saturday at the Wisconsin Film Festival. It recounts the story of former University of Wisconsin-Madison biochemistry student Barbara Hoffman, who moonlighted at a massage parlor and was accused of fatally poisoning two of her clients for money.