Trailer for documentary about a sick pervert strip search caller looks too wild to fathom-Sabrina Barr-Entertainment – Metro

The trailer for a true crime documentary about a hoax caller who persuaded people on the phone to conduct unsanctioned strip searches looks almost too outrageous to be believed.

The three-part docu-series, titled Pervert: Hunting the Strip Search Caller, is set to premiere in the UK on Paramount Plus next week, telling the real story of a criminal who operated across the US.

What happened was that a sick individual was calling up fast food restaurants across America and somehow convincing the managers to do exactly as he said, resulting in members of staff suffering horrifying abuse.

In the trailer for the show, shared exclusively by Metro.co.uk, one person can be heard expressing their confusion over a phone call from the perverted individual, as they say: ‘I said, “What is going on?” And she’s like, “Something’s going on in the office. There’s a cop on the phone.”’

‘One of her employees has been accused of stealing your wallet. The police officer tells Miss Summers conduct a strip search,’ someone else states.

One of the people involved in the film recalls in the trailer how the caller began telling them ‘the process’ of doing a strip search, instructing them to take off a female staff members blouse.

The hoax mystery caller carried a lot of power over the phone (Picture: Paramount Plus)

He was able to convince people with just his voice that he was a police officer (Picture: Paramount Plus)

‘He was asking that my manager describe my body,’ one person states in the trailer, as another adds: ‘Well, you can’t do that over the phone.’

Despite people going along with the orders made by the mysterious person on the phone, they also admit they don’t know who the caller is, expressing confusion over whether they’re actually a real police officer or not.

‘I had no idea who the caller was,’ one participant reveals, while another adds: ‘Is this a real police officer?’

The orders on the phone then become even more sinister, as an interviewee in the documentary recalls: ‘The caller says, “I need her to perform a sexual act.”’

Connie Leonard is a news anchor and investigate reporter in Louisville, Kentucky who covered the story (Picture: Paramount Plus)

An investigation dug deep into the caller’s crimes (Picture: Paramount Plus)

A piece of footage included in the film features a woman who appears to have been one of the victims of the hoax caller, as they heartbreakingly state: ‘I felt like I had done something wrong, that maybe I should have fought back.’

‘I don’t think there was anywhere he probably didn’t touch,’ another woman adds.

Viewers watching the documentary may wonder how on earth people obligingly followed vulgar orders from someone they’d never met on the phone, with no proof that the caller had any authority over them.

However, it’s remarked in the trailer that ‘the psychology employed by the caller was amazing’.

Vic, who contributed to the documentary, helped with the investigation into four incidents, helping to deduce that the calls were coming from Panama City, Florida (Picture: Paramount Plus)

Buddy Stump also contributed to the investigation as a detective (Picture: Paramount Plus)

One man becomes emotional in the trailer, breaking down in tears over his recollections of the events that unfolded.

‘They went from doing something right to facing life in prison,’ a voiceover reveals.

The strip searcher pretended to be a police officer when calling up fast food restaurants, claiming that he was investigating a theft that had taken place and that young women who worked on the premises were suspects in the crime.

However, he was eventually caught out when he contacted a McDonald’s chain in Mount Washington, Kentucky, when an individual made it their mission to investigate his call.

The documentary features interviews with the victims of the traumatic strip searches, workers who were talked into doing the strip searches and individuals who carried out the investigation into the hoax caller in pursuit of the truth and justice.

Pervert: Hunting the Strip Search Caller premieres on Tuesday October 25 on Paramount Plus.

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