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

I'm Melissa Slaughter, and here on You Can't Make This Up, we go behind the scenes of the Netflix original true crime stories with special guests. Kevin Flynn and Rebecca the the confession killer. Robert Kenner, award-winning director of the documentary Food Inc.

and Australian director Taki Oldham partnered up to delve into the story of Henry Lee

Lucas, a man who confessed to hundreds of murders that spanned across the country.

In this interview, they'll cover the key players in this story, like the Texas Rangers,

Captain Bob Prince and Sheriff Jim Boutwell, jail minister Klemi Schroeder, journalist Hugh Ainsworth, and lawyer come

politician Vic Faizel.

It is a lot to cover so make sure you've watched all of the confession killer.

Now he is Rebecca, Kevin, Robbie, and Taki.

Robbie Kenner, you're the director, Taki Oldham, you are the co-director.

Robbie, you've done many documentaries, but you haven't done crime until now, right?

That's correct.

What drew you to this story? Well, it's an amazing story. Actually,

Taki came and had been researching this story for about two years, and it was just the minute we heard it we said we have to go

shoot this is an incredible jaw-dropping story. Taki had done an amazing amount of

research and lined up a lot of people and it was extraordinary but you know there's

similarities with this series to past films even though they're totally different subjects because it's ultimately looking at a system that ultimately went askew.

So on one hand it's a series about a serial murderer,

but it's also really about a system,

and it's really also about how people

looked at this man that was thought

to be the worst serial killer in all of history and saw what they

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