the research that went into the scripting of "the stoneman murders" involved an intensive search for newspaper articles dating to 1983 (when the killings took place). the director manish gupta and his team combed the asiatic library, the government archival library at elphinstone college, the "times of india" archives and the archival departments of "indian express", "maharashtra times", "navbharat times" and other newspapers. before this, the preliminary research done by the director was over the internet where a few articles about the stoneman had been posted. the dates obtained from the internet were later used to carry out more detailed research in the libraries and newspaper archives.