Based on a Los Angeles Times report and podcast by Christopher Goffard.
The events depicted in the series (and the series title) are adapted from the 6-episode, true-crime podcast by Wondery and the LA Times, released in 2017. The podcast was wildly popular and spent weeks at the top of the US iTunes podcast list, as well as topping lists in Australia, Canada and the UK.
Eric Bana (John Meehan) and Juno Temple (Veronica Newell) also starred together in The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) as Henry Tudor and Jane Parker.
Second anthology series for Connie Britton, the first being American Horror Story (2011).
In the Thanksgiving dinner scene John is wearing a shirt that says University of Arizona but is the colors of Arizona State University.