Some true crime content – like The Teacher’s Pet or Up and Vanished has helped lead detectives to suspects, even resulting in convictions on cold cases.  

But armchair detectives don’t always get it right – like the TikTok star in Idaho who wrongfully accused a professor of murder.  

Take the popular Netflix series Baby Reindeer, based on a wild, but true story.  Fans have started to investigate the real-life people characters were based on, despite the writer and director going to pretty great lengths to try to keep their true identities private. 

Is online sleuthing here to stay? And can it cause greater harm than good? 

In this episode, Sacha Barbour Gatt speaks with Greg Stratton from RMIT, who is currently writing a book about true crime and wrongful convictions. 

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