TW: murder, exploitation, kidnapping, violence againstchildren

True crime is extremely popular today. Where did this wave come from?

If that’s not your cup of tea, we’ll leave you with somelinks to organizations that are helping victims:

• RAINN: https://rainn.org/
• NOND: https://notournativedaughters.org/

Heads up, we do some cursing in this episode. People are f****** obsessed with some of this s***.

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Here are some of our sources:

• “True crime podcasting: Journalism, justice or entertainment?” by Kelli S. Boling (https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/rjao_00003_1)
• “Barbara Newhall Follett: The Child Novelist Who Later Vanished Into Thin Air” by Jake Rossen (https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/barbara-newhall-follett-author-mystery)
• “True Crime Podcasting as Participatory Journalism: A Digital Ethnography of Collaborative Case Solving” by Sarah Witmer and David O. Dowling (https://www.mdpi.com/2673-5172/5/4/104)
• “Mortality, moral regulation, and (im)moral entrepreneurship in My Favorite Murder” by Richard Green and Bethan Michael-Fox (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10304312.2023.2215971)
• “Death and mourning in technologically mediated culture” by Margaret Gibson (https://doi.org/10.5172/hesr.2007.16.5.415)
• The Curious Case of Natalia Grace on HBO Max (https://www.max.com/shows/curious-case-of-natalia-grace/d8da0110-568f-4ab2-94fd-fd72c705c44f)
• I’ll be Gone in the Dark on HBO Max (https://www.max.com/shows/ill-be-gone-in-the-dark/a823014d-fa0b-4bbe-ab98-14ea00e551bb)
• 11 Minutes on Paramount+ (https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/11-minutes/?searchReferral=desktop-web&source=google-organic&ftag=PPM-23-10bfh8c)
• “News Media Can’t Shake ‘Missing White Woman Syndrome,’ Critics Say” by Katie Robertson (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/22/business/media/gabby-petito-missing-white-woman-syndrome.html)

00:00 – Trigger warning

00:18 – Intro

01:35 – The Top Tens

04:27 – Where Does It Come From?

10:54 – Why Do People Love It?

29:19 – Racism in True Crime

32:55 – Capitalism Rears its Head

36:34 – Our Recommendations

42:44 – Kali Coda

43:23 – Thanks for Listening