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9 Eye-Opening Documentaries on Netflix That Aren’t About Murder

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Margeaux Sippell

White Boy

Rick Wershe Jr. as a teenager pictured in White Boy courtesy of Netflix

Rick Wershe Jr., formerly known as “White Boy Rick,” rose to fame in the 1980s as a drug dealer in Detroit, Michigan. He became famous for befriending high-ranking members of drug clans when he was only a teenager and was ultimately given a life sentence when he was just a teenager. But the 2017 documentary White Boy tells a very different story about Wershe Jr.’s life on the streets of Detroit — and the conviction that made him the longest-serving Michigan inmate who was convicted as a juvenile of a non-violent crime.

After you watch the doc, if you want to know how Rick Wershe Jr. is doing now, I’ve got all the details here.

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