The seven-part series, which combines documentary and drama elements, focuses on a different real-life murder each week from the victim's point of view.

Marcus is shot and killed, in a manner echoing the real-life murder of Nicole duFresne.

However, neither the novel's nor the movie's solution is based on either real-life murder.

The rumours persisted that the film showed a real-life murder.

The story is loosely based on the real-life murders of civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964.

"It's good fun, an opportunity to reach a million people with my views," the 48-year-old lawyer has to admit about his moot-court perch on real-life murder.

The film was marketed as being based on a true story, though it has no connection to any real-life murders.

Or was this 'different subject' the cage-girl killings - the real-life murders of those prostitutes, not the movie version?

Read about the real-life murders at 112 Ocean Avenue, the best-selling book and the family at the center of the controversy.

On the chilling real-life murder that inspired Stieg Larsson's books.