Oscar winner Octavia Spencer has earned second seasons for the true crime Lost Women franchise and the FBI docuseries Feds from Investigation Discovery.
The first seasons of Lost Women of Highway 20 and Feds premiered on ID in November 2023, and currently stream on Max. The renewals spring from a production deal between Spencer’s Orit Entertainment, October Films, discovery+ and ID, the true crime network.
The next cycle of the Lost Women franchise will focus on the brutal murders of two Alaska indigenous women, Veronica Abouchuk and Kathleen Jo Henry, and the investigation that led authorities to capture and convict their sadistic killer, Brian Steven Smith. In addition, a new season of Feds will continue to take viewers inside America’s most elite crime fighting agency, the FBI.
Spencer will executive produce both series and narrate the latest Lost Women franchise series. “Our ongoing partnership with ID and October Films is a collective commitment to shining a spotlight on important true crime stories. A new season of Feds will continue to bring unparalleled access to the FBI and our next installment of Lost Women will feature an unfolding new case digging into an ongoing crisis facing Indigenous victims, whose cases many times go not only unsolved – but uninvestigated,” Spencer said in a statement on Tuesday.
The Lost Women franchise – which probes society’s treatment of women — kicked off with Lost Women of Highway 20, an event series that investigated a missing 13-year-old girl and uncovered a decades long true crime odyssey along an Oregon highway.
Lost Women is executive produced by Spencer, Brian Clisham and Stephanie Kluft of Orit Entertainment, Matt Robins of October Films, and Christina Douglas of Momentum Content. Feds is executive produced by Spencer, Clisham and Kluft of Orit Entertainment and Matt Robins of October Films.
