Netflix show created by WKU graduate tops the rankings

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – What started off as just a research project for a journalism class, would eventually turn into a six year journey for the truth.

Western Kentucky University graduate Christian Hansen started researching coincidentally the same suspicious activity that was being looked into by late reporter Danny Casolaro who died mysteriously back in 1991.

Casolaro was investigating a large network of corruption in the government which he called “The Octopus” when he seemingly committed suicide. The reporter’s late work was picked up by Hansen, now a journalist after graduating WKU in 2013, and his friend Zach Treitz, a film maker who went to Boston University.

Hansen said he’s put himself in several dangerous situations to find out what the story was that Casolaro was working on and hoping to complete an autobiography for the reporter.

The four part series is full of conspiracy, suspicious murders and cover up schemes all uncovered by Casolaro before his death. It’s titled “American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders” and is streaming now on Netflix