(NewsNation) — Was a journalist murdered to keep him from blowing the whistle on a massive government conspiracy?
Netflix docuseries “American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders,” among the 10 most popular shows on the platform, seeks to answer that question.
In 1991, reporter Danny Casolaro was found dead in a hotel room, after he told friends he was about to expose a sleazy spy ring. The government officially ruled the death a suicide, but the documentary showed that he may have been murdered.
The creators of the film told NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo on Thursday that they’re still investigating.
“I’ve been getting new leads daily,” filmmaker Christian Hansen said on “Cuomo.” “We’ve been really busy promoting the show, but we’ve also been mapping out where we want to take the story next. We didn’t end the show intentionally as a cliffhanger. … The world that we got started documenting is kind of ever expansive, and it just keeps going. And you can just keep chasing it until you’re totally exhausted.”
Director Zachary Treitz said he started working on the project as a total skeptic, but now he says “it’s complicated.”
“I had no relationship to this conspiracy stuff,” Treitz said. “My relationship was really just through decoding what Danny was working on … what this ‘Octopus’ was.”
