‘Love Trapped’ Podcast Coming to TV as Peacock Docuseries

Love Trapped is getting the TV treatment as a docuseries at Peacock.

The hit podcast from Glass Podcasts and iHeartPodcasts quickly became a sensation after first releasing in February. Love Trapped was initially a 10-episode weekly release; however the series expanded to 18 episodes, along with mini “bonus” episode, to track what has become a bizarre three-year ordeal chronicling the criminal case against Laura Owens, the Arizona woman who attempted to entrap former The Bachelor star Clayton Echard, and other victims, with paternity fraud.

The final episode released on Thursday timed to the announcement, with the 18th episode, “The Bitter End,” teased the doc at the end of the episode.

After Love Trapped became a top Apple podcast of the year, The Hollywood Reporter reported in a feature that the audio story had become a hot Hollywood property, and that Glass Podcasts, which has had a string of recent podcast-to-TV adaptations, had been in talks about bringing Love Trapped to television.

Now the news is official: Peacock will adapt the story into a four-part docuseries titled Love Trapped: The Case of Laura Owens (wt).

Based on the podcast hosted by Stephani Young, the documentary will chronicle “the extraordinary story of former Bachelor star Clayton Echard and his tumultuous relationship with a woman named Laura Owens, which began with a brief encounter and, following her pregnancy claim, spiraled into a years-long legal battle that captivated social media and sparked widespread public fascination.”

Through exclusive interviews — including with Owens herself, speaking for the first time (she did not participate int he podcast) — the documentary brings together Echard, his legal team, Owens’ mother, Jan Black, other men who were targeted by Owens, Young and the online detectives who helped unravel the story that shockingly extends far beyond one relationship.

The doc is executive produced by Glass Podcasts founder and CEO Nancy Glass, Emmy-winning documentarian Erin Lee Carr, and Keayr Braxton for Glass Entertainment Group, along with Danny Passman for Crybaby Media. Braxton is director.

The description continues: “Love Trapped: The Case of Laura Owens (wt) follows an astonishing story when Laura meets Clayton through a potential real estate deal and after their short connection, she tells him she’s pregnant with his twins. Their private dispute erupts into a nationally followed story fueled by citizen sleuths and social commentators that join the media firestorm that implodes into a shocking trail of deception, legal threats and public humiliation. The deeper the investigation goes, the more unbelievable the revelations become, while raising a disturbing question: when does the desire to be loved turn into an obsession?”