Who Killed Alex Spourdalakis?

A unique insight into how ignorance, negligence, and indifference in the US healthcare system led to the tragic death of a severely autistic Chicago teen, and a charge of Murder One for his mother and godmother.

This unprecedented documentary captures the events that precipitated the alleged murder of Alex Spourdalakis. Filmed in the months leading up to his death, the film shows what and who actually contributed to the tragic outcome.

Mute and afflicted with severe autism, Alex went from being a handicapped but happy adolescent to a sleepless, violent young man out of control. Gastrointestinal pain and inflammation lay at the heart of his problem. Failing to recognize this, successive doctors put him in locked restraints for over 70 days while, in spite of expert advice, they numbed his brain with dangerous psychotropic drugs. Helpless and beyond exhausted, overwhelmed by Alex's suffering, his mother and Godmother plotted his death and their own, unsuccessful, suicide.