It may have started the ball rolling, but Serial is far from the only show to take a true crime case and turn it into content for our listening and viewing pleasure - with dramatic results
He has the podcast to thank for breathing new life into his defence and casting doubt on his conviction for the murder of his then-girlfriend Hae Min Lee after she was found strangled and buried in a Baltimore park in 1999.
A 2003 inquest found that Dawson started an affair with a 16-year-old student who moved in with him days before his wife went missing. Although Durst was acquitted of murdering Black in 2001, a conversation caught on the mic during filming for the documentary appeared to show him confessing to all three murders. He apparently didn't know he was still being recorded.
In 2021, Anthony Broadwater - who spent 16 years in prison - was cleared by a judge of raping Sebold when she was a student - an assault she wrote about in her 1999 award-winning memoir Lucky. She then went to the police, who suggested the man she had seen was Mr Broadwater, who was subsequently arrested.
The three-part Netflix 2019 documentary Don't F*** With Cats: The History Of An Internet Serial Killer told that story - making the monster at its heart - Luka Magnotta - famous.. He also posted a video of this killing on the internet.
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