Sky's gripping new true crime documentary has already been hailed as 'stunning and enraging' | JOE.ie

On 24 October, 2011, 12-year-old Garrett Phillips was murdered at his home in Potsdam, a small town in upstate New York.

Police quickly zeroed in on a suspect for this unthinkable crime: Oral “Nick” Hillary, a black man that was living in a mostly white community. Hillary was a football coach at Clarkson University and the ex-boyfriend of Garrett’s mother, Tandy Cyrus.is a two-part documentary that looks at the case from the initial investigation through the arrest and numerous legal twists and turns that culminated in Hillary’s trial for murder five years after the crime.

The documentary starts with the murder of 12-year-old Garrett Phillips and depicts the subsequent trial of Nick Hillary. The two-episodes will chronicle the five years following the murder, as Garrett’s grief-stricken family and community relentlessly seek justice, and Hillary desperately fights to prove his innocence.

Two-time Academy Award-nominee and Emmy-winner Liz Garbus is directing the documentary and in terms of its aesthetic approach,will feature in-depth interviews with a variety of people linked to the case, as well as extensive police audio and video recordings and courtroom footage.

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