The three-episode docuseries will examine the bizarre true-crime case that took Tupelo by storm in 2013.

What happens in Tupelo certainly doesn’t stay in Tupelo.

Netflix is all set to captivate the country with another wild and authentic crime documentary series along the lines of Tiger King And Wild, wild country. The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Saga even comes from the same directors as this latest doc, Chapman and Maclain Way. But the story it tells promises to derail viewers even further.

“I lived through the most controversial history in the state of Mississippi, and maybe the entire country,” one man says at the start of the new trailer. He is Paul Kevin Curtis, a key figure in the saga of a rivalry in Tupelo, Mississippi, that came to national prominence in 2013 when Curtis was accused of outposting the president. Barack Obama letters sprinkled with ricin, a toxic substance.

The charges were ultimately abandoned against the Elvis impersonator, and suspicions formed around another Elvis impersonator named James Everett Dutschke. “We called him an asshole,” a talking head kindly informs in the documentary’s trailer.

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“These two had Napoleonic syndrome,” says another. “Little men trying to be big.” The tortured bond between Curtis and Dutschke is at the heart of The Kings of Tupelo. Curtis testifies that his house was burned down, one accuses the other of having an affair with his wife, Curtis again says that Dutschke “shot my dog ​​with a tranquilizer”, and archive audio news report announces that “an elephant was shot dead in a car.”

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It all leads to the crime that blew up the rivalry with Tupelo: the mailing of poison letters to President Obama, Mississippi Senator Roger Wicker and Mississippi State Judge Sadie Holland. A federal agent interviewed in the documentary calls it “the craziest case of my career.”

With The Kings of TupeloNetflix viewers can rest easy knowing they are in good hands. Brothers The Way have made some of the platform’s most popular documentaries, including the cult Emmy-winning Oregon investigation. wild countryAt Unspeakable series, which includes four seasons of hour-long documentary examinations of scandals in the sports world.

They are also descendants of a particularly distinguished Hollywood family tree, headed by actor Bing Russell, and including screenwriter Rick Way (their father) and Kurt Russell (their uncle). The Kings of Tupelo is also produced by Greg Berlantithe power plant behind the network knocks like Dawson Creek And Riverdaleand more recently streaming gems like Red, white and royal blue And The flight attendant.

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If it’s been too long since Tiger King and you are already crossing Baby reindeer withdrawals, The Kings of Tupelo arrives on Netflix on December 11, just in time to save you from the holiday boredom.