Cindy Howland, vice-president of original content for Netflix, called the Central Park Five case “one of the most talked-about cases of our time”.
The Central Park Five case involved five teenagers – Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise – who were wrongfully convicted of the rape and murder of a jogger, Trisha Meili, in Manhattan’s Central Park in 1989.
Director Ava DuVernay is set to write and direct a limited series about the Central Park Five – a group of teenagers who were wrongfully convicted of assaulting and raping investment banker Trisha Meili in 1989 – for Netflix.
“The story of the men known as Central Park Five has riveted me for more than two decades.