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The Dark Side of True Crime

What if thinking and talking about real life murders was not actually good for us?

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Mentioned in this episode:
The Brides in the Bath episode of Shedunnit
The Murder at Road Hill House episode of Shedunnit
The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie
“True Crime Is Rotting Our Brains” by Emma Berquist at Gawker
“There’s Really No Easy Way to Say ‘I Was Stabbed’” by Emma Berquist at Human Parts
Missing Presumed Dead by Emma Berquist
The case of “the Servant Girl Annihilator”
The rescue of Baby Jessica
The Edith Thompson episode of Shedunnit
The Gabby Petito case
Paul Foot on the James Hanratty case
Heavenly Creatures (1994) directed by Peter Jackson
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

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The Dark Side of True Crime Transcript

Caroline: Welcome to Shedunnit. I’m Caroline Crampton. The boundary between real life crimes and fictional ones has been blurry for a long time. Writers have been using elements of actual murders in their plots as long as crime fiction has existed. I’ve explored some of the most famous instances from history, such as the cases… Continue Reading