![]() I just took an interest early on and ran with it. All of these cameras and technology were becoming more accessible and cheaper. "I was that kid in high school that was running around making silly YouTube videos," he recalls. First, there was the space burrito, but Mull kept up the hobby with his own YouTube channel, directing an intense zombie attack at Great Bend High School, and using green screen technology inside his own home for complex productions. The new project is a far cry from the earlier videos. I just want to be in the story with these families and try to capture it in the most authentic way." I think this documentary, it's very real. If you're there with a camera that no one is seeing, you get their real reactions. If you're there with a camera the size of three basketballs, people turn their shoulders and look at it. ![]() I think that's how you get the real reactions with what's going on. My idea is to just blend in with the crowd. "The drone I have can fit in my camera bag. "Some of this consumer equipment you can get for a few grand is pretty great," he said. It's all done using equipment that allows for unique drone shots from the sky, and for authentic shots on the ground. He estimates he already has hundreds of hours invested into the project and plans to shop it to a major network when complete. Mull already has extensive footage from the area, as well as interviews with many of the key characters in the case, including family members of the victims and law enforcement officers. I'll put as much time as I need to into this to make it good and to get it out there." I think this story would have looked a lot different. "It really is a story that never got that attention that it would have gotten even 10 years ago, in 2012, with Facebook on the rise. "Had it happened today, 2022, I don't think the public would have let it become 20 years old," said Mull. Stills from Mull's work-in-progress documentary. To him, it's about bringing proper attention to the double homicide, its victims, and the family members left in its aftermath. Now 29 years old, married, and living on the east coast, Mull made the decision to fly back home for Tuesday's Kansas Bureau of Investigation press conference regarding the case. To say I'm knee-deep in this is an understatement. For the better part of the year, I've been flying back here secretly four or five times, collecting interviews and just really diving. "About this time last year, right after the 19th-year anniversary, I realized I'm about to find myself with enough time to be able to devote to a project like this. "It's always been a story that obviously hit close to home, being from Great Bend," Mull said. Now Mull has turned his attention to something more serious: a documentary about double-homicide at the Dolly Madison Bakery store in Great Bend in 2002. The stunt landed him on national television and kickstarted a career in video. He used a weather balloon to send a burrito into space, using new camera technology to film the entire flight. ![]() In 2012, Aaron Mull was a senior at Great Bend High School. From a high school stunt, a career was born.
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