Hulu True Crime Collection Expands with "Dead Asleep" and "Captive Audience"

Hulu announced two new True Crime projects today, a documentary film called Dead Asleep and a docuseries titled Captive Audience.

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What’s Happening:

Hulu’s True Crime Collection is adding a new documentary and a new docuseries to the lineup.
Dead Asleep is a documentary film produced by Pulse Films and Sky Crime which covers the case of Randy Herman Jr., who claims to have committed a brutal murder while sleep walking.
Captive Audience is a documentary series that explores the after effects of the Sayner family’s disappearance of their 7-year-old son in 1972, his return a decade later, and the hit TV movie that changed their lives forever.
Mre information on both new projects can be found below.

About Dead Asleep:

The traditional thriller narrative is flipped in this documentary about Randy Herman Jr., who committed a brutal murder and claimed to have done it while sleeping.
“Pulse Films has secured exclusive access to Herman and his family, the defense and prosecution attorneys, journalists who covered the case, forensic psychiatrists and world experts in violent parasomnia (sleep-walking) to give viewers an inside look at the shocking twists and turns of the controversial crime.”
Directed by Skye Borgman (Abducted in Plain Sight), who worked with Pulse Films on The Case Died With Her for Oxygen.
Marisa Clifford, Nelesh Dhand and Sunshine Jackson serve as executive producers for Pulse Films.
Jack Oliver and Poppy Dixon executive produce for Sky U.K.

About Captive Audience:

This limited documentary series tracks how true-crime storytelling changed over the course of 50-years through the lens of the Stayner family.
In 1972, 7-year-old Steven Stayner disappeared, returning home almost a decade later and inspiring a 1980’s made-for-TV movie (I Know My Name Is Steven) and “Stranger danger” PSAs.
“It’s about how truth becomes story and story becomes truth—on TV, in the justice system and in our minds.”
The series not only focuses on Steven, who became a hero for saving another child from the same suffering he endured, but also his older brother Corey, whose life took on a far more sinister path.
Directed by Jessica Dimmock (Unsolved Mysteries, Flint Town).
Executive produced by Anthony and Joe Russo, directors of Avengers: Endgame and Avengers: Infinity War, plus Jen Casey, Andrew Jacobs, Mike Larocca, Todd Makurath, Nick Gilhool and Peter Rieveschl