Last month, Laura Owens was sentenced to a month in jail after faking a pregnancy to entrap former Bachelor star Clayton Echard. This story was the subject of the popular iHeart podcast Love Trapped and it is now being adapted into a true-crime series for Peacock.
The streamer has ordered Love Trapped: The Case of Laura Owens (w/t).
The four-part docuseries, which will premiere next year, chronicles the story of Owens, who had a brief relationship with Echard, who starred on season 18 of The Bachelorette and season 26 of The Bachelor, who claimed she was pregnant with twins before being caught.
The series comes from Glass Entertainment Group and Crybaby Media. The two companies produced the Stephani Young-hosted podcast, which launched in September.
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It will feature interviews with Echard, his legal team, Laura’s mother, Jan Black, the other men who were targeted by Laura, “Stephani Young and the online detectives who helped unravel the story. Laura Owens also shares her experience for the first time.
It is exec produced by Nancy Glass, Erin Lee Carr and Keayr Braxton, who also directs, for Glass Entertainment Group, and Danny Passman for Crybaby Media.