When Christina Boyer’s three-year-old daughter Amber died, she was convicted of killing the child. The new Hulu documentary Demons and Saviors takes a look at Christina’s life, and examines whether her supposed telekinetic and unexplained paranormal powers caused her to be wrongfully convicted.

Opening Shot: An aerial shot of Pulaski State Prison in Hawkinsville, Georgia. We hear audio of a phone call. “Today is the anniversary of my daughter’s murder,” a woman says, adding, “I’ve spent over half my life locked up.”

The Gist: Jan Banning is a Dutch photographer who often seeks out marginalized people as his subjects. After photographing some of the inmates at a women’s prison in Georgia, he met Christina Boyer, the woman on the phone at the beginning of the episode. After learning about Christina – who was convicted of killing her three-year-old daughter, Amber – Banning decided to investigate her story more, and what he found combines all the true crime and supernatural phenomena you can fit into one tragic tale.

“If you want to understand Christina, you can’t just start at the moment Amber died,” Banning explains. “You have to put it into the context of her whole life. When Christina was about 14 years old, apparently what people described as… paranormal events… happened.”

As a young teen in 1984, objects started flying across Christina’s home. TVs would play even though they were unplugged. Christina’s religious adoptive parents, John and Joan Resch, attributed it all to a demon possessing their daughter, going to far as to have a priest attempt an exorcism. It wasn’t until Christina connected with her biological sister that she learned that her biological mother and grandmother shared her telekinetic powers.

Eventually she would meet a famous parapsychologist named Bill Roll, who took her to North Carolina to study her, but when she returned home to the Resch’s in Ohio, they literally abandoned her, even trying to put her back up for adoption. Christina was sent to juvenile detention, but ran away and met a man she would marry when. It was then that she learned she was pregnant with her daughter, Amber. Amber became Christina’s world, but Christina was trapped in an abusive situation and fled with her daughter to North Carolina, and while they were living there, Amber would sustain injuries that took her life, and which Christina would eventually be blamed for, leading her to be convicted of murder.

What Shows Will It Remind You Of? Demons and Saviors is a blend of Unsolved Mysteries, The Staircase, and Carrie, mixing a mysterious murder with a woman’s unexplained paranormal abilities. In fact, much of the footage from the first episode is from an actual Unsolved Mysteries episode that Christina appeared on in 1992. And there’s also the 1982 supernatural scarefest Poltergeist, as a lot of people have nicknamed Christina “Poltergeist Girl.”

Our Take: The first episode of Demons and Saviors would be enough, a deep dive into the life of a young girl inexplicably possessed and/or able to control objects with her mind. The episode goes into great detail about all the ways that Christina was studied, the people who tried to debunk her as a fraud, and the mistreatment she endured at the hands of her so-called family, all because of these supernatural powers she couldn’t control.

The fact that the paranormal aspect of Christina’s life is only the preamble to a larger murder mystery is kind of like the true-crime Super Bowl. In the second episode of the three-part series, we hear the details of Amber’s death, and by part three, we meet a group of people, including Jan Banning, who are convinced of Christina’s innocence and have spent years trying to overturn her conviction. It’s a truly fascinating story and, if I’m being honest, it’s not really trying to be that objective, I definitely came away from it believing, or at least hoping, Christina Boyer is innocent. (I tend to compare a lot of true-crime documentaries to The Staircase, because I think Michael Peterson is one of the scariest types of people out there, a potentially dangerous man who makes you believe otherwise. Like Peterson, Christina Boyer entered an Alford plea, in which she pleaded guilty while also maintaining her innocence and not admitting to the murder. But unlike Peterson, Boyer didn’t blame an owl.)

Whether or not you believe Boyer, her life is one wild story, and Demons and Saviors tells it in a way that’s sensitive to her and to Amber, while also examining all the obstacles, including a lack of family support, cruel media scrutiny, and abusive relationships in her life whose prevention could have led her and Amber down a brighter path. That’s truly the great tragedy of this story.

Sex and Skin: Nothing onscreen, though there are descriptions of sexual abuse that Christina endured at the hands of her foster brother.

Parting Shot: “She would put her life on the line many times for that child,” Christina’s childhood friend Teresa says. “There’s no way she would have killed her.”

Most Pilot-y Line: “What drives a woman to kill her three-year-old daughter? That’s strange,” artist Jan Banning says, explaining why he chose to look more deeply into Christina’s case.

Our Call: STREAM IT! Christina’s story falls squarely in the”truth is stranger than fiction” category. Though the supernatural abilities have nothing to do with Amber’s death, the fact that this woman was stigmatized because of her supposed powers and they caused people to believe she was capable of murder is unique and fascinating and worth a look.

Liz Kocan is a pop culture writer living in Massachusetts. Her biggest claim to fame is the time she won on the game show Chain Reaction.