Hulu Launches True-Crime Docuseries ‘The Well’ From Fox Entertainment Studios

Hulu is leaning further into true-crime with its latest docuseries. The streamer has launched six-part series The Well, which explores the investigators reopening the case of the Speed Freak Killers. The Well investigates more than 200 unsolved murders that continue to haunt California’s San Joaquin County, including those linked to serial killers Loren Herzog and Wesley Shermantine. The series, which launched today, comes from Fox Entertainment Studios, Mountain Top Pictures, Haven Entertainment and Fairvale Entertainment. It follows a newly formed cold case unit led by Lieutenant Linda Jimenez, who are determined to locate the remains of victims who are still missing. They turned to Shermantine to help as his “cryptic” hand-drawn maps may hold the only clues to the victims’ final resting places. Watch on Deadline Shermantine died on death row earlier this year, while Herzog committed suicide in 2012. They were initially convicted of four murders including three jointly but they are suspected of murdering many more. The Well is exec produced by Rachel Witte, Michael Bott, Toby Louie, Nicolas Levene, Kevin Mann and Mark Ankner with Michael Horn as co-ep. The series is distributed worldwide by Fox Entertainment Global.