Having no access to crime photos, they staged the murder scene "based on what made sense". When they later accessed the actual crime-scene photos, they was struck by how accidentally accurate our re-staging of the murders turned out to be.
Drew Fuller broke his knuckles during the filming of the scene where his character's girlfriend tells him that she is pregnant and he slams his fist against the wall out of anger.
In one brief shot the teens are seen driving an SUV with a Kentucky License plate on the front of the vehicle, however in Kentucky they do not issue front side plates as they do in many other states.