In Popular Culture
- In the 1989 film Woodchipper Massacre, the children kill their aunt, freeze her corpse, dismember it, and then put it in a woodchipper.
- The case inspired filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen to write their 1996 Academy Award winning film, Fargo.
- The pilot episode of Forensic Files (1996) documents the investigation.
- In 1997, New Detectives outlined the events in an episode titled "Body of Evidence".
- In 1998, the case was featured on History Television's series, Crime Stories.
- In July 2012, Investigation Discovery revisited the investigation of the case in their Blood, Lies, and Alibis episode entitled "Woodchipper Killer," focusing particularly on Lee's forensic analyses.
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