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Murder Mountain (2018)

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Genre
documentary television program
Country
United States
Length
1 season, 6 episodes
Rated
16
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 35 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This documentary series looks at remote marijuana farming communities in Humboldt County, California. It focuses on several unsolved disappearances and murders connected to the local cannabis industry. The case of Garret Rodriguez, a young grower killed in 2013, is a central part of the story.

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What happens

Murder Mountain, originally marketed as Murder Mountain: Welcome to Humboldt County, is an American true crime documentary television series that premiered on Fusion TV on September 23, 2018. Netflix picked up the series and it premiered on the platform on December 28, 2018. The show covers an area of Northern California's Humboldt County, including the local marijuana industry, and multiple disappearances and murders that have occurred in the surrounding mountain range. Much of the show follows the case of 29-year-old Garret Rodriguez, a cannabis grower who was found murdered in the region in 2013. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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