On October 12, 2018, Tessya Whatley will debut on the silver screen in “Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer.” Tessya stars as Viola Brown, an expectant mother who escaped Dr. Kermit Gosnell’s “house of horrors” when she chose to carry her child to term.

Despite his depravity, Dr. Gosnell is anything but a household name. In 2013, the Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf argued that “the grand jury report in the case of Kermit Gosnell … is among the most horrifying [he’d] read.” Dr. Gosnell unlawfully executed viable newborns after delivery—the estimates are in the thousands. He drugged female patients, going so far as to give Karnamaya Mongar a fatal overdose. He spread venereal disease. He exploited poor people and immigrants. Dr. Gosnell’s cruelty spanned over 30 years without oversight or intervention, deliberately so in the case of then-Gov. Tom Ridge, a pro-choice Republican.