How the Beatrice Six Were Tricked Into Confessing to Murder

Filmmaker Nanfu Wang's ("One Child Nation") HBO docuseries chronicles the 1985 rape and murder of Nebraska grandmother Helen Wilson and the six people wrongfully convicted of it.

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