Titled Making a Murderer, the 10-episode series will begin streaming on Netflix Dec. 18, 2015.
Directors Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos were inspired by a newspaper article from 2005 and spent the last 10 years investigating the story.
“There are an unbelievable number of twists and turns in the story arc of Making a Murderer, it feels like it has to be fictional,” said Lisa Nishimura, Netflix VP of Original Documentary Programming.
Other Netflix original documentary and docu-series include Oscar-nominated films The Square and Virunga, as well as other genre titles What Happened, Miss Simone?, Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom and Chef’s Table.