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‘American Nightmare’ Team on Digging Into the Brutal ‘Gone Girl’ Case and Police Refusing to Participate: ‘They Turned Their Backs on Us’


The 'American Nightmare' directors open up about the brutal 'Gone Girl' case and the police's treatment of Denise Huskins.

Netflix’s latest docuseries, from the filmmakers behind “The Tinder Swindler,” Felicity Morris and Bernadette Higgins, tells the story of a traumatic home invasion, abduction and the unreal events that unfolded from there. We also had the amazing interrogation footage that Aaron and Denise fought tirelessly over the last few years to get access to, so that was a real gift for us in terms of storytelling — especially when it came to allowing the audience to sit back and really adjudicate the behavior of the police and decide how they felt about it. I think it was a reporter who knocked on her door and said, “Hey, I’m here to interview you about this case.” Tracy had no idea that a man who could have been behind her home invasion had been apprehended, and she too is left with questions that she hasn’t had answers to because of the fact that these investigations came to a standstill.

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