Topics: True crime, Crime, US News, Florida, Hulu
A new true crime documentary has dropped and it’s causing people to binge watch it in one sitting.
With the likes of AMY BRADLEY IS MISSING and Confessions of a Parent Killer having had true crime fans in a stranglehold in past weeks, a new doc has fans' jaws on the floor, with viewers saying 'this s**t is crazy'.
Streamed on Hulu, the documentary focuses on the 17-year-old mystery of the death of Mike Williams in Tallahassee, Florida.
The 31-year-old real estate appraiser was last seen on a duck-hunting trip on Lake Seminole in December 2000, and left behind his wife Denise, and their young daughter.
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For nearly two decades authorities thought Mike had fallen from his boat and drowned, his body devoured by alligators.
But the truth would reveal itself in 2017.
The shocking tale is told as part of ABC News Studio series Mr. & Mrs. Murder.
Fans of the show admitted that it was so gripping, they powered through it in no time.
One person wrote on X: “Mr & Mrs Murder on #Hulu…,” with a meme of the words ‘that’s wild as f***’.
Another said: “I watched this whole thing in one sitting they both need to rot in hell.”
Authorities found Mike's abandoned boat and truck at Lake Seminole, and it was initially suspected that he had probably had a fatal accident there.
But Cheryl Williams, Mike's mother, didn’t believe it. She was right not to.
Mike had been the victim of a planned murder between his wife Denise and his best friend Brian Winchester.
They had been having an affair since 1997, and just six months before Mike disappeared, he purchased a $1.75 million life insurance policy from his friend.
The pair seemed to have gotten away with it, until Brian was arrested for pointing a gun at Denise in 2016 as their marriage began to fall apart.
From there, Brian made a deal with prosecutors and agreed to immunity in Mike's death in exchange for revealing what happened that day.
His confession revealed that he pushed Mike from the boat and shot him after he was able to swim to a stump and attempted to hold on.
"He was panicking and I was panicking," Brian testified at the time. "None of this was going like I thought it was gonna go."
He then showed officers where his body was at Carr Lake, an hour away from Lake Seminole.
"We were Bonnie and Clyde," Brian said of his relationship with Denise. "We were partners in crime."
In December 2018, a jury found Denise guilty of conspiracy to commit murder and accessory and she was sentenced to life in prison.
Her murder conviction was later overturned, though her conspiracy conviction stood.
Brian is serving a 20-year sentence for kidnapping Denise, while she serves 30 years.
