Netflix announce new true crime series The Innocent Man

From Digital Spy

We may have all signed up to Netflix for their library of movies and classic shows, but the streaming service has made a name for itself recently with its easily binge-able true crime shows such as Making a Murderer and The Staircase.

Now, the streaming service is launching a new series based on John Grisham's first non-fiction – and best-selling – novel The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town.

Simply titled The Innocent Man, the six-part series will focus on two murders that took place in a small Oaklahoma town in the 1980s, Debbie Carter in 1982, and Denice Haraway in 1984, and the wrong conviction that followed.

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The author shared a trailer for the series on Twitter, quoting himself from when he said: "If I wrote The Innocent Man as a novel, folks probably wouldn't believe it."

The series will include interviews with journalists, attorneys, friends and families of the victims, and Grisham himself (he's also executive producing). Archive footage and images will also be used.

Netflix recently released the second season of Making a Murderer, which Digital Spy said was even better than the first one.

The people behind the series have also teased that a third season could happen, if not for a few years yet.

The Innocent Man will drop on Netflix on December 14.

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