Hello, Reddit!

I’m Joe Berlinger, Oscar-nominated and Emmy-award winning filmmaker of The Paradise Lost Trilogy, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, “Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes”, and now “Confronting a Serial Killer,” a five-part docuseries that premiered Sunday on STARZ. Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtTxUDw13_I

The series tells the story of the unprecedented relationship between best-selling author Jillian Lauren and the most prolific serial killer in American history, Samuel Little, and her race against time to identify his victims before his death.

Why make another show about yet another vicious serial killer? It’s my belief that this medium can be used to affect social change by exposing flaws in our criminal justice system, a system that is biased against marginalized communities, particularly women of color and those struggling with addiction, mental illness, and trauma—a system that needs changing.

Samuel Little repeatedly slipped through the hands of law enforcement over the course of almost four decades until the efforts of LAPD Homicide Detective Mitzi Roberts – who used DNA technology to solve three cold cases from the 1980s – and Deputy District Attorney Beth Silverman finally got Little sentenced in 2014 to serve three life sentences.

Jillian Lauren entered the picture after interviewing Detective Roberts, who had a hunch that Little was guilty of many more murders yet to be solved. Haunted by the idea that Little would only be held accountable for three murders, Jillian ditched her idea for a novel and found herself face-to-face with a serial killer, with a new drive to solve cold cases and hold him accountable. It’s our hope that this series will not only give them a voice, but also give them back their names and dignity.

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EDIT: Thank you all so much. That’s all the time I have for now but I will try to answer more questions later today. I hope you’ll tune into “Confronting a Serial Killer” Sundays on STARZ.

You can follow me and the show on social media: https://twitter.com/joeberlinger https://www.instagram.com/joeberlingerfilms/ https://www.facebook.com/Starz/ https://twitter.com/STARZ https://www.instagram.com/starz/

And if you have any information regarding crimes believed to be connected to Samuel Little, please contact the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI or log on to: https://www.fbi.gov/tips