Although the project was green lit in February 2018, Billy Tooma first reached out to Ken Forsse's widow back in September 2016 in hopes of proposing the whole thing. She took over a year to finally respond.
Billy Tooma had originally pitched the idea of doing an hour long documentary before embarking on the research. It eventually became apparent that sixty minutes would not do the story justice, so Tooma decided a multi-part series was in order.