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Entertainment · Television & streaming · published 2026-09-01 · via Deadline

Hearst Networks Doubles Down on True Crime with Borden and Wuornos Documentaries

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Hearst Networks is partnering again with Spirit Studios and BossaNova Media to produce two new true-crime documentaries, following the success of their AI-assisted Ed Gein film. The first, a 90-minute feature on Lizzie Borden, revisits the 1892 murders using rediscovered police interrogation files. The second, a two-part series on Aileen Wuornos, draws on FBI case files and testimony from the lead detective, with both projects using AI to construct the historical settings.

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The new projects continue Hearst's partnership with Spirit Studios and BossaNova Media following the success of Ed Gein: Original Psychopath, which became one of Crime+Investigation's top shows in 2025. Lizzie Borden: 40 Whacks is a 90-minute film drawing on rediscovered police interrogation files from the 1892 case.

The two-part Aileen Wuornos series incorporates FBI case files and testimony from lead detective Brian Jarvis, who questioned Wuornos after her arrest. Both productions use the interrogation room as a narrative device, with AI

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