When Elena Semander is brutally murdered in 1982, her family’s whole world is tragically turned upside down. But that’s really just the beginning. Her mother, Harriett Semander, will soon uncover startling revelations about the case, and eventually learn that the man who killed Elena is scheduled to be the first serial killer ever released from prison.
THE EMPTY CHAIR is our proof of concept pilot for a new series being developed by Pipeline Films, created & written by John Semander and directed & produced by Andrew Shebay.
The series, EMPTY CHAIRS, is a harrowing true story that follows a two-decades-long fight for justice from the victim's families perspective as seen through the eyes of, Harriett Semander, culminating in a cold case murder from Michigan that became their only hope at keeping America's most prolific and unknown serial killer in prison.