Director: Adam Luria
In 1990, a body pulled from a Florida canal — missing its head and hands — opens a case that stretches on for twelve years and crosses continents.
What is The Hunt For Chemeleon about?
"The Hunt for the Chameleon Killer" is a true-crime documentary series built around one of the strangest missing-persons cases in modern American history. What begins as a grim discovery in a Florida waterway grows into an investigation that follows a trail of assumed identities, forged paperwork, and wrongly accused suspects from the American South all the way to London. Told through interviews, archival material, and re-created sequences, the series tracks how investigators slowly pieced together the movements of a woman who kept slipping past them by becoming someone new every time the net closed. Rather than a single dramatic reveal, the show builds its tension across a decade-plus manhunt, showing how patient detective work, international cooperation, and a few lucky breaks eventually closed in on one of the most wanted fugitives in the world. It is as much a study of how identity can be stolen and rebuilt as it is a conventional crime chase.
Cast & crew
The series features Emma Roberts, J. C. MacKenzie, Hilary Swank, Justin Hartley, Ethan Suplee, Macon Blair, Betty Gilpin, and Glenn Howerton, whose voices and reenactment work bring the investigators, witnesses, and central suspect to life across the retelling.
Context & significance
A joint United Kingdom and United States production released in 2024, the series runs in 42-minute episodes and holds a solid 6.6 rating on IMDb. It sits within the true-crime documentary wave that favors long-form, multi-country investigations over quick procedural summaries, giving the twelve-year timeline room to breathe.
Where & how to watch
"The Hunt for the Chameleon Killer" is available to stream on K-Time with a free account login; the show's page can be browsed without signing in. K-Time's Farsi-language interface makes it simple for Persian-speaking viewers to search for and follow English-language documentary series like this one.