Morgan Freeman Interviews Serial Killer at Stateville Correctional Facility

Photo: Morgan Freeman. Courtesy of David Sifry/Wikimedia Commons.

CREST HILL, IL — Academy Award winning actor Morgan Freeman visited Illinois recently to interview a serial killer.

Freeman visited Brian Dugan at the Stateville Correctional Facility as part of a six-part documentary for the National Geographic Channel, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Dugan is currently spending his life behind bars for the murder of three people and a series of sexual assaults.

The show will feature Freeman as he visits different places around the world, learning about religion, rituals, neuroscience and other topics.

One episode will examine the concept of evil, which is what brought Freeman to the correctional facility, according to the Tribune. Neuroscientist Kent Kiehl is working with Freeman’s production company on the episode.

“Dr. Kiehl has begun to reveal how mental illness can be treated and, more importantly, caught early before it manifests as criminal behavior,” show associate producer Brandon Fibbs wrote to the Tribune in an email. “We are interested in raising awareness about the fact that there may be a way to help people like Mr. Dugan before they harm others.”

The series is set to air in the middle of next year.