Director Margaret Brown had just two days' notice to reassemble her crew and give HBO's true-crime docuseries "The Yogurt Shop Murders" a new ending after a major break in the 1991 Austin, Texas, case that had gone unsolved for 35 years. The original four-part series left the deaths of four young women unresolved, mirroring the lack of closure their families had endured, but investigators subsequently linked DNA evidence to known serial killer Robert Brashers, who died by suicide in 1999, prompting Brown to fly back to Austin and start filming within two days.

The series, which counts Emma Stone among its producers, has since been nominated for an Emmy in the documentary or nonfiction series category, one of only five murder-focused series to receive such a nomination in the past decade, alongside "Making a Murderer", "The Keepers", "Tiger King" and "The Jinx Part 2". Brown, making her first true-crime project, suggested the show's focus on grief may have helped it stand out in a category increasingly dominated by celebrity-focused documentaries about figures such as Martin Scorsese, Sean "Diddy" Combs and Rafael Nadal.