The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez coated the horrific homicide of an Eight-year-old California boy via his mom and her boyfriend.
Courtesy NetflixThe Trials of Gabriel Fernandez is the number-one U.S. display on Netflix as of Tuesday, in step with the streaming carrier’s personal best 10 checklist. The demanding six-part documentary collection covers the 2011 homicide of an Eight-year-old California boy via his mom and her boyfriend, and their resulting trials. It is a heartbreaking and hard-to-watch collection, regardless that it could appear to return to an finishing with the sentencing of the 2 killers. However filmmaker Brian Knappenberger says Gabriel’s tale is probably not over.
Knappenberger instructed Leisure Weekly this week that all over the making of the collection, he gave Gabriel’s mom, Pearl Fernandez, and her boyfriend, Isauro Aguirre, a different telephone quantity the place they might succeed in him. They by no means known as, and each at the moment are in jail, with Aguirre on loss of life row. However Knappenberger nonetheless holds out hope one or each would possibly succeed in out to him now.
“There are nonetheless such a lot of unanswered questions,” he instructed EW. “So in the event that they sought after to speak to me, I’d completely communicate to them at the report.”
The collection additionally coated the case of 4 social staff who had been charged with being criminally negligent in Gabriel’s case. An appellate court docket threw out that case in January, however prosecutors may nonetheless take that case to the California Ideal Courtroom.
“That is nonetheless an excessively reside tale, so perhaps this may result in a season 2?” Knappenberger mentioned.
In any other fresh EW interview, Knappenberger mentioned he realizes the collection is “a in reality tricky watch,” however provides, “it is crucial one.”
