Laura ricciardi moira demos biography

There was a moment when Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi, the filmmakers behind Netflix’s hit “Making a Murderer,” knew their documentary series had crossed over from obscurity to a pop culture phenomenon.

“When Alec Baldwin called Moira on her cellphone,” Ricciardi says flatly.

It was January 2016 — less than a month after the 10-part series began making the binge-watching rounds in households across the country (and beyond) in a time usually reserved for spreading good cheer, not becoming engrossed in a grim tale of murder and social justice.

And Baldwin, they say, just wanted to let them know he was hooked.

A passion project 10 years in the making — begun in 2005 while they were graduate film students — the true-crime tale followed the case of Steven Avery, a Wisconsin man who had previously been convicted of sexual assault and then exonerated after 18 years in prison, only to find himself accused in the slaying of photographer Te