Welcome to You Can't Make This Up, a companion podcast from Netflix.

I'm Melissa Slaughter and I'm introducing this week's episode.

Here in You Can't Make This Up, we go behind the scenes of Netflix's original true crime stories with special guests.

Before we go any further, you should know that this episode is going to feature some strong language,

starting with the title of this documentary.

Don't fuck with cats, hunting an internet killer, follows a team of armchair detectives

searching for an anonymous cat killer before you can escalate to something worse.

Crime Riders on host Rebecca Laveoy talks with director Mark Lewis about how these internet

investigators, led by Deanna Thompson and John Green, use a variety of online techniques

to help the police in an international manhunt.

Mark Lewis, the director of Don't Fuck With Cats.

It is so nice talking to you. Thank you so much for having this conversation with me.

Well, thanks for having me on, Rebecca. Thank you.

I'm really interested to know. How did you intersect with this story, learn about it, and decide to make a film about it?

Well I had directed another feature documentary a couple of years ago about Silk Road, which is this

sort of billion dollar drug cartel that ran on the dark web and the

extraordinary mysterious character behind it and it was after that I think you know my

interest has been really peaked in these sort of internet crime and dark web type stories

and I was really on the lookout for something else and the company that I worked with

Raw, we were really on the lookout for something similar just because it was so

sort of zeitgeist and when we came across the story I think you know we were sort

of really wowed by the fact that you know it it was a

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