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Last updated September 20, 2026
For Development
The Hitz Inheritance is a true 1965 missing-heiress story with an archive of more than 500 documents, a memoir in progress with a proposal and sample chapters available, and life rights held by a single rights holder.
The One-Line Difference
The girl was found within days. The fortune has been missing for sixty years. Chain of title is one signature. Settings span Washington, Caracas, and Zurich in 1965. The Washington Post put her on the front page. Per family records, both of the men who would later break Watergate pursued the story, years after the disappearance: Bernstein joined the Post in 1966, Woodward in 1971.
A memoir in progress; a six-to-eight-episode limited series with a completed pilot script; documentary and serialized podcast lanes open. Rights package · For producers · For literary agents.
Where it sits
Buyers place a property by what it sits beside. Here is where this one lands, and where it departs.
Prestige period drama grounded in documented history, with settings that travel and institutions that fail people. This is 1965 Washington, Caracas and Zurich. The Crown is fiction about a known monarchy; this is a case the papers printed and then dropped.
Both stories turn on the gap between how a young woman is seen and what the money is doing offstage. Inventing Anna is about a fabricated heiress. This one is about a documented heiress: Swiss-Venezuelan, seventeen, on the front page of The Washington Post.
The Dropout works because the documents are the drama. Same machine here: cables, a contested will, front pages, court files, and a family that never threw anything away. The paper trail can structure the episodes.
Dorothy Arnold in 1910 and Helen Brach in 1977 remain missing-person mysteries. Anna Maria Hitz was found in Caracas within days of the 1965 front page, married and a mother. The unresolved part is not the person. It is the estate, reported at ten million dollars at the time, which no one in the family ever collected.
When the brief is a six-to-eight hour limited series rather than a weekly procedural, the archive has to carry the season. An archive of more than 500 documents do that here: front pages, cables, a Swiss nickname, a Caracas scandal, and questions never resolved in public.
Most true-crime pitches begin with a podcast and an encyclopedia entry. This one begins with the family scrapbooks: front pages in four languages, court papers, and a cable the mother never believed. The buyer can touch the sources, not a retelling.
Life rights, the underlying memoir, and supervised archive access from a single rights holder. No estate committee, no split title. Public proof pages, and a proposal with sample chapters on request.