In 2017, the Scandinavian press became consumed by the murder of 30-year-old Swedish freelance journalist Kim Wall, fixating on her killer and the brutality of the crime. Only a few years after the horrific incident captured the country and beyond, director Tobias Lindholm set out to do the exact opposite with Wall's story. His dramatic recreation of the events in the six-part series The Investigation makes its American debut on HBO Feb. 1. The show goes to painstaking lengths to convey the factual details of the hunt for Wall's killer, allowing the real heroes to be the central characters of the story rather than the murderer.