Demos rose to prominence with her documentary Making a Murderer which she co-directed with filmmaker Laura Ricciardi, in a process that took 10 years to complete.
She is credited as an electrician for the film Pollock based on painter Jackson Pollock's life, and is also credited as an additional electrician on the film You Can Count on Me.
[citation needed] In 2005 Demos and Laura Ricciardi read the article "Freed by DNA, Now Charged in New Crime" in The New York Times.
[1] Fascinated by Steven Avery's case, they rented a car and borrowed a camera and began filming the day after they arrived in Wisconsin.
[citation needed] In 2018 Demos and Ricciardi released a second season of Making a Murderer.