Discovery Channel's "Killing Fields" is already creating waves as it promises to be the next true-crime sensation. From the looks of it, Discovery is following the steps of other crime series from real life stories such as "Serial," "The Jinx" and the currently controversial Nextflix's "Making A Murderer."
ET Online exclusively reports that "Killing Fields" is set in the center of Louisiana, and it reopens an unsolved crime of a 19-year-old graduate student, Eugenie Boisfontain, which happened nearly two decades ago. She was last seen alive in June 1997. A couple of months later, her body was found in a ditch.
Why was she killed? What led to her untimely demise? These are some of the questions that will be answered, the same questions that haunted Detective Rodie Sanchez, who was first assigned the case in 1997. He was already retired but returned to service to give the investigation a fresh perspective. A young, new detective, Aubrey St. Angelo, who hopes to aid Sanchez to fulfill a broken promise to Boisfontain's mother to find the person responsible for her daughter's death, joins Sanchez.
ET Online adds, "In ETonline's exclusive look at the premiere, the show sets the scene for the true-crime docu-series. Iberville Parish is a swampy community just 15 miles outside of Baton Rouge. While it may look beautiful from the outside, Sanchez describes it as "a dump zone for all murders." It's a world that recalls the setting of True Detective season one, but be assured, this case is very real."
Over six episodes, "Killing Fields" will will take advantage of modern forensic science and the green mind of a new detective but question remains if it is enough to solve the case.
What is different with the show is that unlike the others, the ending is yet to be concluded and in fact, just coming together so fans will have to wait and see how it would turn out.
"Killing Fields" premiered last night.