Seems like AGT alum judge Simon Cowell is going mainstream, with a new docu-series called "The Investigator". Cowell's production company Syco would be working with famous detective Mark Williams-Thomas on the new series, as told to ANN, citing a source close to the 56-year-old TV talent boss.
"The Investigator's" pilot episode would take viewers back to the 1985 murder of Carole Packman, whose husband Russell Causley confessed to after almost thirty years of keeping it a secret from family and friends. A combination of compelling documentary and stylized drama, the new 4-part series fully titled "The Investigator: A British Crime Story" would be airing on TV screens by August.
Simon Cowell met Mark Williams-Thomas at an event last year, and the media mogul has since become interested in the new "The Investigator" idea. Williams-Thomas is known for his expose on famed radio personality Jimmy Savile as a sex offender in 2012, according to the Mirror UK.
"They talked and worked on some ideas. This is the first to make it to the screen and could be the first of many. Simon is excited," the source revealed of the Cowell-Williams-Thomas encounter. Simon Cowell's "The Investigator" was an idea penned after he became a fan of the real crime-drama genre after watching "The Jinx", an HBO series.
"The Investigator" would be looking for answers as Carole Packman's body has never been found, after she went missing from her Bournemouth home thirty years passed. Her former husband, Russell Causley, got convicted of the murder in 1996 and eventually imprisoned for life in 2004.
According to the Independent, Causley has revealed to a couple of prison inmates the gripping details of his wife's murder, including dissolving her body in acid. Cowell's "The Investigator" aims to shed light into Ms. Packman's untold story of fraud, deceit, and never-ending lies that has spanned decades, until the recent turn of events.
