Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images for Alliance for Women in Media Foundation(NEW YORK) In 2018, an emaciated male body was found in the Florida wilderness with little clues about his identity.
But through a group of internet sleuths, the man was later identified as a hiker known by his nickname of Mostly Harmless.
The story is now being re-examined in a Max documentary "They Called Him Mostly Harmless," which premiered Thursday.
ABC News Live s Phil Lipof spoke with Emmy award-winning director Patricia Gillespie about the documentary and the interest in true crime.
ABC NEWS LIVE: This looks fascinating. What made you want to turn this story into a documentary?
PATRICIA GILLESPIE: I was initially approached with this story by my colleague, Ethan Goldman at Anchor Entertainment. And at that point, it was the story of this man who had been found deceased and had no identity. But what I saw when I looked deeper was a bigger story about the true crime community and the sleuth
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