Jennifer Love Hewitt is channeling Julie from I Know What You Did Last Summer — only this time in real life for Investigation Discovery’s new A Killer Among Friends true crime series.
Love Hewitt executive produces and narrates the new ID series.
“Sure, you can trust your friends, but I wouldn’t,” she warns at one point in the trailer. The six-parter, to debut July 14, follows six groups of friends, and six historical cases of murder and treachery among them.
“A Killer Among Friends offers a unique opportunity for me to draw from my own work as an actress, as we blend together a kaleidoscope of perspectives to tell each of these tragedies that deeply impact group dynamics and shatter beliefs,” Love Hewitt, who has turned to film producing in recent years, added in a statement.
The trailer is full of dramatic recreations and interview clips with interconnected friends who recall with regret, grief and even shock their cases of deceit, jealousy and violence that they got caught up in.
The first episode, Killer on Campus, centers on the 1994 shooting and death of college football player Trent DiGiuro on his 21st birthday while celebrating with college buddies. Despite witnesses to the murder, no killer was immediately identified and fears on campus grew that the killer might be among DiGiuro’s friends and could return to strike again.
Episodes to follow include a high school theater troupe fearing the 2013 killer of Jessie Blodgett, a lead in a Fiddler on the Roof production, may be within their inner circle; and a California town where the 1995 disappearance and subsequent murder of a 15 year-old Elyse Pahler prompted suspicion among classmates.
Other episodes tackle the 1997 kidnapping and murder of Maryann Measles, where suspicions pointed to her own circle of friends; and the 2010 killing of Michele Carson in Las Vegas while she was on a fun getaway with best friends.
Suspicions among interconnected friends also figure in an episode around the 1990 death of Ron Baker in a train tunnel connected to the notorious Charles Manson murders.
A Killer Among Friends is produced by Bunim-Murray Productions for Investigation Discovery.
Love Hewitt shares executive producer credits with Julie Pizzi, Jesse Daniels, Farnaz Farjam and Elissa Halperin.
