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A follow-up docuseries to Netflix's outrageously popular 2015 series Making a Murder has begun production, Deadline reports. The eight-episode series, called Convicting a Murderer, has been financed independently and is currently being shopped around. It will focus on the State of Wisconsin's highly controversial case against Steven Avery and his nephew Brendan Dassey for the 2005 murder of Teresa Halbach.

To be clear, Convicting a Murderer is not the sequel to Making a Murderer, but instead is described as a follow-up by documentary filmmaker Shawn Rech and his longtime producing partner attorney Andrew Hale. Netflix greenlit a second season of Making a Murderer awhile back; the premiere date for that is unclear.

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"When Making A Murderer was produced, many on the law enforcement side of the story could not, or would not, participate in the series, which resulted in a one-sided analysis of the case," Rech said in a statement. "This docuseries will examine the case and the allegations of police wrongdoing from a broader perspective. It will also share with viewers the traumatic effects of being found guilty and vilified in the court of public opinion."

According to Entertainment Weekly, Rech managed to get exclusive access to retired District Attorney Ken Kratz and lead investigator Tom Fassbender, neither of whom appeared in the original series. This, again, suggests Convicting (which has reportedly secured several million dollars for production) will be more inclusive of law enforcement's side of the case than Making was.

"We'll present all of the evidence in the Avery case from the perspective of both the prosecution and the defense and see if viewers feel the same way they did two years ago following the first season of Making A Murderer," Rech's statement continued.

Rech and Hale are responsible for the 2014 documentary A Murder in the Park which focused on Alstory Simon, a man who'd been wrongfully imprisoned for a double homicide in 1982. Simon has since been released and now lives in Cleveland.

From: Cosmopolitan US