Erin Lee Carr Talks Kim Wall True-Crime Doc and Revisiting the Michelle Carter Story (Exclusive)

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, and, Erin Lee Carr is back with, another must-see examination of real life events. “Anybody who hears this story, I think it’s hard to not want to know more.

It’s just so bizarre,” Carr tells ET about the 2017 submarine case surrounding the murder of Wall, a Swedish freelance journalist who died and was dismembered aboard a miniature submarine while interviewing its owner, Danish entrepreneur Peter Madsen.

Premiering on HBO, the two-part documentary goes beyond the headlines and even the scripted version,, which aired on the same network in 2021, to chronicle the events leading up to the ill-fated interview, to get new perspective on the case, and to examine what happened when Madsen went to trial.

Most importantly, gives a voice to the journalist, whose life was not only cut short but whose story has since become a series of footnotes in her killer’s multiple and varying accounts of what happened aboard his submarine. “I was trying to make it as much about Kim as possible,” Carr says, before explaining that there were so many ways to tell this story, and that there were so many different fascinating elements to focus on, particularly the trial. “Peter Madsen was somebody that lied on the stand again and again and again, because it’s not illegal to lie in Denmark.