This new Netflix true crime doc follows the “real-life Gone Girl”
nme.comNetflix has just added a new true crime documentary that is being referred to as the “real life Gone Girl“.A synopsis for the new three-part series, which became available to stream today (January 17) on Netflix, reads: After a home invasion and abduction, a young couple’s recounting of the events is too far fetched for the police to believe.
Why did the victims seem so calm? Was it all a hoax?“From the filmmakers behind The Tinder Swindler, this three-part docuseries unravels the consequences of our cultural rush to judgment, and the damage done when law enforcement decides the truth can’t possibly be true.”The story centres arounds an event in 2015 when an intruder broke into the home of Denise Huskins and her partner Aaron Quinn.
The pair were drugged before abducting Huskins and holding her for ransom.Quinn went to the authorities for help but was not believed – and then police thought he was to blame for the abduction.The case was compared to the best selling novel Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn – and was later adapted into the 2014 film starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike.
In this story, author Anne Donne (Pike) vanishes, leading police to suspect her husband Nick (Affleck) was to blame.The trailer for American Nightmare, which you can watch below, includes a voiceover from Quinn where he recounts the night Huskins disappeared.He says: “I wake up, bright light blinding us.
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