{"id":2038319,"date":"2025-09-21T03:48:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T03:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2038319"},"modified":"2025-09-21T03:48:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T03:48:21","slug":"bold-beautifuls-ashley-jones-tells-a-real-life-american-horror-story-that-sent-chills-down-my-spine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/bold-beautifuls-ashley-jones-tells-a-real-life-american-horror-story-that-sent-chills-down-my-spine\/","title":{"rendered":"Bold &#038; Beautiful\u2019s Ashley Jones Tells a Real-Life American Horror Story That \u2018Sent Chills Down My Spine\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>The Bold and the Beautiful<\/em>\u2018s Ashley Jones is no stranger to bringing <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/soaps.sheknows.com\/the-bold-and-the-beautiful\/news\/642498\/bold-beautiful-what-is-ashley-jones-bridget-doing-now-directing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:complex women to life;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">complex women to life<\/a> on screen. Now, she\u2019s executive producing and starring in one of Lifetime\u2019s latest \u201cRipped From the Headlines\u201d series, <em>The Girl Who Survived: The Alina Thompson Story.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/articles\/bold-beautiful-ashley-jones-lands-093055211.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:true-crime story;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">true-crime story<\/a> tells the tale of serial killer William Bradford from the perspective of a 15-year-old teen who was lucky enough to get away. He was a photographer and she was an aspiring model with Hollywood dreams. It\u2019s a 1984 Los Angeles story that\u2019s very familiar to Southern California residents because there was a renewed interest in the case in 2006. The LAPD released a series of headshots taken from the photos in Bradford\u2019s apartment in hopes of identifying more victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>More from Soaps.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI remember driving down Sunset Boulevard, seeing the billboard saying, \u2018Have you seen these women? Have you seen me?\u2019 And it was all of these pictures,\u201d Jones shares about the revisited true-crime tale that gripped the city almost 20 years ago. \u201cIt was in the newspaper. It was all over LA. And it freaked me out.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>Sam Trammell, Ashley Jones, Brielle Robillard<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jones even remembers how vulnerable teens and young women were in the 1980s and 1990s when it came to talent calls for casting. \u201cI saw those ads for the photo calls, where you could become a model. They had them in Venice Beach and Century City Mall,\u201d she recalls. \u201cThey had them all over the place, and that was a breeding ground for serial killers, more than one. We\u2019re telling the story of William Bradford in 1984. We\u2019re just scratching the surface of one period of time that he did what he did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bradford\u2019s crimes were extremely dark, but Jones\u2019 Lifetime movie focuses more on Thompson\u2019s family and how their involvement in her modeling career helped save her from becoming one of the killer\u2019s victims. She describes the film as a true \u201cfather-daughter story\u201d with the suspense of a \u201cthriller.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There\u2019s even a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/children-back-lifetime-resurrecting-much-154239870.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:real-life daytime connection;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">real-life daytime connection<\/a> to the Bradford tale \u2014 and it\u2019s pretty shocking! <em>All My Children<\/em>\u2018s Eva LaRue and her sister, Nika, \u201chad a very close call with William Bradford,\u201d and Nika wound up on the poster released by the LAPD. Their case was eventually used in an episode of <em>CSI: Miami<\/em> in its fifth season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jones researched the LaRue sisters\u2019 encounter while she was in preproduction for the Lifetime film, and she says, \u201c[It] sent chills down my spine.\u201d Jones adds, \u201cThen I went and watched the episode, and it\u2019s a slightly different version of what happened because it\u2019s [Nika\u2019s] story.\u201d Now, Jones is sharing another perspective of Bradford with <em>The Girl Who Survived: The Alina Thompson Story<\/em>, and she thinks it won\u2019t be the last.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jones predicts, \u201cI feel like Ryan Murphy, once he sees this, he\u2019s going to jump right on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>The Girl Who Survived: The Alina Thompson Story<\/em> premieres Saturday, Sept. 20 at 8\/7c on Lifetime and streams the next day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Before you go, watch our full interview with Jones in the video above, then check out the gallery below to find out exactly how <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/soaps.sheknows.com\/gallery\/bold-beautiful-forrester-family-how-related-eric-ridge-stephanie-photos\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bridget fits into the wild Forrester family tree;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Bridget fits into the wild Forrester family tree<\/a>!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bold and the Beautiful\u2018s Ashley Jones is no stranger to bringing complex women to life on screen. Now, she\u2019s executive producing and starring in one of Lifetime\u2019s latest \u201cRipped From the Headlines\u201d series, The Girl Who Survived: The Alina Thompson Story. 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