On Tuesday, Netflix delivered another genuine wrongdoing narrative, The Ax Using Drifter.

The movie, coordinated by Colette Camden, recounts the narrative of a grieved Canadian drifter who got well known, to some extent immediately, because of a viral image in 2013.

In practically no time, Kai Lawrence (née Caleb Lawrence McGillvary) turned into an out of the blue phenomenon after he gave a meandering aimlessly television interview that was streamed large number of times. In any case, things took a sad turn after his brush with web popularity, and in 2019, he was sentenced for homicide.

Who is Kai Lawrence, how did his story take off, and how has everything turned out so unfortunately amiss? In February 2013, Lawrence, then a 24-year-old destitute surfer, gave an odd meeting with news station KMPH about an upsetting occurrence that happened when he was hitching a ride with an alien to Fresno, Calif.

Lawrence guaranteed that while he was in the vehicle with the driver, the driver conceded to assaulting a 14-year-old young lady and afterward deliberately hit a person on foot with his truck prior to an over going after a lady to help. Lawrence said he then gotten a move on over and over hit the driver’s head with an ax trying to help the harmed observers.

The bright way Lawrence conveyed this fierce story (“crush, crush, SA-Crush!”) grabbed the public’s eye, and his record turned into an image.

The media amassed around Lawrence, who apparently confronted emotional wellness battles of his own.

Lawrence was welcomed onto everything from unscripted TV dramas to late-night television, and, surprisingly, showed up on Jimmy Kimmel Live in mid-February of 2013.

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Lawrence, who was as yet destitute, made a beeline for New York not long after his freshly discovered popularity.

Yet, inside a couple of months in the city, he was captured for killing a man named Joseph Galfy, whom he guaranteed had physically attacked him.

Galfy, a 73-year-old legal counselor, was found dead at his New Jersey home in just his socks and clothing. He had been pounded into the ground.

Officials examining the case found a piece of paper with Lawrence’s name on it inside Galfy’s home, as well as a train ticket receipt driving them to observation film of Galfy embracing Lawrence at the train station. At the point when Lawrence was situated at a Philadelphia bus stop, he confessed to killing Galfy, yet guaranteed it was self-preservation following a supposed rape.

Specialists saw irregularities in his story, and Lawrence was sentenced for first-degree murder in 2019. He was condemned to 57 years in jail. He stays detained in New Jersey today.

For more on Lawrence’s story, watch The Ax Using Drifter, streaming now on Netflix.