What do you get when you mix the aesthetic of True Detective with the storytelling of Serial? That would be Killing Fields, Discovery Channel's first true crime drama series, which returns for Season 2 on Jan. 3.
The second season -- shot in real time -- continues to track the investigation into the 1997 cold case of Louisiana State University student Eugenie Boisfontaine, whose body was discovered in a bayou and whose murder has remained unsolved for years.
Leading the charge is Detective Rodie Sanchez, the first investigator assigned to Boisfontaine's case back in '97, who came out of retirement to try and solve the mystery which has haunted him for the past two decades.
In Season 2, the team is also tracking another case after evidence surfaces of a body stuffed inside a barrel. Sanchez believes that this is tied to an unsolved disappearance he worked 26 years ago. Even more compelling -- the facts surrounding the barrel are eerily similar to what the prime suspect once admitted in a separate investigation for that missing person’s case. But Sanchez could never lock him up, because the body was never found… perhaps until now.
Watch an exclusive sneak peek from the Killing Fields Season 2 premiere above, then tune in to follow the investigation Tuesday, Jan. 3 at 10 p.m. on Discovery.
