Pacesetter Productions and Campside Media are teaming to develop a true crime podcast titled Kelly & The Satanic Panic, based on the crazy actual events that follows one of the most controversial cases of the 1980s that saw Kelly Michaels, a 23-year-old college student accused of Satanically abusing dozens of children in 1985 before being exonerated.
Considered the Monster of Maplewood, Michaels’ case was the longest and most expensive in New Jersey history at the time, and she was convicted and sentenced to 47 years in prison. The accusations, which included outrageous acts such as forcing toddlers to watch her play Jingle Bells on a preschool piano in the nude, were supported by New York’s elite such as Anna Quindlen. Michaels spent five years in prison before exoneration.
The show will be a stand-alone story in Campside’s Infamous franchise, which is in its second year as part of Sony Music Entertainment’s The Binge. The first season saw reporters Vanessa Grigoriadis and Gabriel Sherman look at some of the most explosive scandals of this century.
The podcast, which will launch on December 7, will feature access to Michaels. It will be hosted by Grigoriadis, one of the co-founders of Campside, and Natalie Robehmed, who wrote the Wondery podcast WeCrashed that was later adapted for an Apple series.
via: Deadline
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