Snapchat Launches Original True-Crime Docuseries
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Snapchat has ordered a new original crime series titled True Crime/Uncovered, which is labeled as a series of four minute-long documentary shorts focusing on murders and disappearances. The first episodes launches at 12 p.m. EST today in English-speaking markets, with the video team of American media company Condé Nast Entertainment producing. Each episode of the series will feature a different case, with Samantha Grace Miller hosting.
A press release summarizes the first three episodes as follows:
The first episode examines the 2014 case of Warriena Wright, whose Tinder date turned deadly after she fell from a balcony. But was it an accident? The episode features an interview with Daniel Piotrowski, a reporter for Daily Mail who covered the case.
Episode two, available March 14, examines the 2009 case of Annie Le, the Yale graduate student who vanished five days before her wedding before being found murdered. The episode features an interview with now retired New Haven Police Detective, Lt. Lisa Dadio, a former investigator on the case.
The third episode, available March 16, delves into the 2014 Slender Man case, in which two 12-year-old girls stabbed their friend nearly to death in an effort to please the fictional character Slender Man. The episode features an interview with Dr. Melissa Westendorf, a court-appointed forensic psychologist on the case.