David Harbour and Pedro Pascal Team Up for HBO Limited Series ‘My Dentist’s Murder Trial’: Everything to Know
usmagazine.comThings are getting even stranger. David Harbour‘s upcoming HBO project, My Dentist’s Murder Trial, is based on a chilling true story.The Stranger Things actor is set to star alongside The Mandalorian‘s Pedro Pascal in the limited series.
According to Variety, the show takes inspiration from James Lasdun‘s 2017 New Yorker article titled “My Dentist’s Murder Trial: Adultery, False Identities, and a Lethal Sedation.”In 2015, Dr. Gilberto Nunez was indicted for allegedly killing his friend Thomas Kolman by getting him to “ingest a substance that caused his death.” The case also included two counts of forgery after Nunez — who had an affair with Kolman’s wife — posed as a CIA agent.When he stood trial in 2018, the dentist was found not guilty of murder.
However, the court found him guilty of fraud. Nunez was sentenced to two to seven years in prison, but he was granted parole and released after only 19 months.Both Pascal and Harbour will executive produce the true crime series, which is the latter’s first major TV project since Stranger Things began in 2016.
The New York native plays police chief Jim Hopper in the Netflix hit, which dropped season 4 in two parts beginning in May 2022.
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