Why Are We Obsessed With True Crime?
As a female, I know that women are more often obsessed with true crime than our male counterparts. What I know about me: I am in a true crime book club. My Netflix queue looks looks like I’m picking up a new set of unsavory skills on how to become a murderer. I am a co-host of a true crime book club podcast — Murder Shelf Book Club. Obviously, we know where my interests lie.
My significant other? Well, he just doesn’t get it. His support of my fascination is asking me to kindly refrain from talking about serial killers in front of the family or taking a red pen to our episodes, “The pause needs to be longer here, between the music and when you first start speaking.”, “There are too many clicks, you need to smooth this out.”, “You should have introduced yourselves and gave a better description of why you’re doing this.” But what about the content?! I start to wonder if he has even listened to the actual words…
In researching one of our episodes about the trial of Lizzie Borden (an awesome book by the way) — The Trial of Lizzie Borden by Cara Robertson, it became apparent to me that this is not a new phenomenon. This has been going on for more than a century; maybe even centuries — before the dawn of the term ‘serial killer’. For those of you who may not be familiar, Lizzie Borden…
