Most of the new true crime podcasts coming out are hurried facsimiles of earlier successes, and how many times can the Ted Bundy story possibly be told? KTHeaney talks to rachmonroe about what it means to be a “fan” of stories about violent crime
Photo: Netflix/Hulu/HBO I have felt for a while now that the modern true-crime craze has passed its prime. Obviously, people have always been interested in crime and will continue to be, but as for the most recent murder media wave — beginning with Serial and Making a Murderer and exploding from there — I, at least, am over it.
Did your research lead you to any conclusions about when true crime began to have that gendered association? Has that always been there? I think all fandoms can be really defensive — that’s one of the dangers of fandoms. They police their borders and they don’t like to be questioned. It’s wild to even talk about something like a true-crime fandom, once you take a half-step away and realize these are real things that happen to real people. But I think it’s an appropriate word — it functions like a fandom.
That was one the main motivating forces that inspired me to write the book: On the one hand, there’s this knee-jerk “Don’t question me, I’m a woman, so therefore this is feminist,” and then on the other hand, there’s this real dismissiveness. That’s the sense I get from the My Favorite Murder fandom — some of that prickliness is responding in an honest, righteous way to dismissal or condescension. “Oh, women talking? It must be dumb and vapid or voyeuristic or trashy.
I think our access to so many sources of information is part of what’s fueling the true-crime craze now. If you think back to the ’90s, if you wanted to read about Jeffrey Dahmer, you’d watch a made-for-TV movie, maybe you’d watch Inside Edition, you could read a lurid paperback, but it was hard to get anything outside those official channels. Now people have access to the internet and all sorts of documents and Facebook pages. Google can take whole evenings away from you.
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