I'm Rebecca Levoy, and this is You Can't Make This Up.

You Can't Make This Up is the podcast where we uncover the true stories behind your favorite Netflix documentaries and films.

On today's episode, we take a closer look at the Netflix documentary series,

The Kings of Tupelo, a southern crime saga.

And I think the South in its struggle to rise above the past, learn to tell stories,

learn to share tragedy, and then sometimes learn to make up stuff.

Today, we're talking to directors Chapman and McLean Way.

Kevin Curtis was one half of a double Elvis Tribute Act, living in the Mississippi birthplace

of the King.

But after he stumbled on to what he thought was a black market organ

harvesting scheme, Kevin went down a rabbit hole of conspiracy and on a quest to root out

corruption. As his paranoia grew, threatening letters sprinkled with deadly ricin turned up at

the offices of his enemies, as well as the White House.

The Netflix documentary series, The Kings of Tupelo, a Southern crime saga, tells the quirky tale of Kevin's colorful life and dark obsessions.

With its many twists and turns, we hear from the story's cast of eccentric characters and follow the investigation into whether this Elvis impersonator hatched a plot sure to have him dancing to the jailhouse rock.

So that drove me to prove that I'm not crazy and I'm not lying and I did find this

and I did get fired and banned and the house was burned down and the car did blow up and the wife did leave me

and my children were threatened and my cat burned alive in my fucking house I'm joined now by Chapman Way and McLean Way. Welcome to You Can't Make This Up, guys.

Thanks, Rebecca. Yeah, thanks for having us on.

So this was a big news story that kind of quickly faded from collective memory. How did you two come around to thinking it would be like a

fantastic topic for a documentary? Yeah, we had a vague memory from 2013 that, you know, like our

country's preeminent Elvis impersonator had been arrested for trying to assassinate President

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