Fargo franchise uses "true story" claim to ... William H. Macy's character, Jerry Lundegaard, was based on the true story of a General Motors Finance Corporation employee who committed fraud ...

At the end of Fargo the movie, justice is mostly done. The kidnapping orchestrated by Jerry Lundegaard, and carried out by Carl Showalter and Gaear Grimsrud, results in a lot of deaths and heartbreak.