💥BREAKING NEWS💥
Ridley Scott and his Scott Free Productions banner are collaborating with ABC News Studios on a new four-part docuseries about the disappearance of 19-year-old Melissa Witt, who vanished from an Arkansas bowling alley in 1994, TheWrap reports.
Titled “At Witt’s End – The Hunt for a Killer,” the series, which premieres on Hulu on August 6 in four parts, delves into the ongoing search for answers in Witt’s case. Thirty years later, new investigators are meticulously examining extensive evidence to uncover information in the decades-long quest to find her killer. And no, it's not LaDonna Humphrey or her team.
The docuseries offers viewers unprecedented access to the investigation, featuring never-before-seen footage and interviews with those involved in the original search for Melissa’s killer.
Produced for Hulu by ABC News Studios in association with Scott Free Productions, NLA Productions, and Mad Possum Pictures, “At Witt’s End – The Hunt for a Killer” boasts an impressive lineup of executive producers. Ridley Scott, Justin Alvarado Brown, Elyse Seder, and David W. Zucker represent Scott Free Productions, while Lugene Armstrong is an executive producer for NLA Productions. Beth Hoppe serves as executive producer for ABC News Studios, with David Sloan as senior executive producer. Devon Parks directs the series.
This project marks the second collaboration between ABC News Studios, Scott Free Productions, and Parks, following their 2023 docuseries “Still Missing Morgan,” which uncovered a shocking new lead in Melissa’s case during the investigation of its subject, Morgan Nick. It premiered on Hulu Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023 and was also in four parts.
The documentary crews began interviewing Nick's family in 2019, 24 years after her disappearance. This was also the year the Morgan Nick Foundation expanded to help even more families in Arkansas.
Colleen Nick started the Morgan Nick Foundation to educate children and teenagers about personal and online safety and to try and prevent child abductions. The foundation assists the attorney general, local law enforcement agencies and families in missing person cases involving children and adults.
The documentary series also includes the new revelations in the case that came in 2021. That's when the FBI named Billy Jack Links as a person of interest in the case.
Links was convicted after an attempted child abduction that was reported to Van Buren police two months after Morgan Nick was abducted from an Alma, Arkansas ballpark on June 9, 1995.
Find Morgan's story here.
Arkansas State Police Lt. Dale Best was the original investigator for both the Melissa Witt and Morgan Nick cases. In 1995, Best was promoted to the rank of Captain, serving as Troop Commander of Troop H in Fort Smith, overseeing a five-county area. By 1997, he had risen to the rank of Major, becoming the Commander of the Criminal Investigation Division in Little Rock. He retired in 1999 and passed away in 2019.
The Melissa Witt case has been the focus of three books in “The Girl I Never Knew” series and a documentary titled “Uneven Ground: The Melissa Witt Story” by author LaDonna Humphrey. Humphrey has also discussed Missy Witt on the first season of her podcast, “Deep Dark Secrets.,” among other podcasts as a guest. Her foundation, All The Lost Girls, and her true crime festival, True Crime Fest of Northwest Arkansas, have prominently featured Missy Witt’s case.
Recently, Ladonna's work has come under scrutiny after the release of a true crime podcast titled "Pretend - Who's Afraid of LaDonna Humphrey." The podcast - with several guests giving their testimony - claims that Ladonna lives a life of deceit. Does this deceit trickle into her work on the Missy Witt case? We figure only time - and this new Hulu documentary - can tell.
Catch the trailer for this new docuseries “At Witt’s End – The Hunt for a Killer,” below.
Streaming on Hulu, August 6th.
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