How Britney Spears and the ‘Cannibal Cop’ Left Erin Lee Carr Forever Changed

By Marlow Stern

Marlow Stern

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Few documentary filmmakers are as prolific as Erin Lee Carr.

In the last five years alone, the in-demand director has helmed the controversial Netflix doc “Britney vs Spears,” “The Ringleader: The Case of the Bling Ring,” “Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara,” the docuseries “I Am Not a Monster: The Lois Riess Murders” and scripted series “Murdaugh: Death in the Family.” She’s also produced “Stormy,” a doc on embattled Trump accuser Stormy Daniels, “Trophy Wife: Murder on Safari” and “Perfect Wife: The Mysterious Disappearance of Sherri Papini.” If you see a throughline there — centering the stories of women — that is by design, and something Carr chalks up to a terrifying encounter with the “Cannibal Cop” Gilberto Valle, the subject of her 2015 film “Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop,” that turned her world upside down (more on that later).

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