The Crime We Create
Exploring how our collective attention around criminal cases creates both justice and harm and what that reveals about us.
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Why Your True Crime Obsession Might Be Creating More Crime
The 7 Types of Harm True Crime Fans Create (And Why You Should Care)
Look, I need to confess something.
I’ve spent hours watching body cam footage of traffic stops. I’ve scrolled through Reddit threads at 2am trying to piece together ti...
Gabby Petito: How Do We Solve Cases and Ruin Lives Simultaneously?
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September 2021. Millions of people mobilized to find Gabby Petito. Three of them actually helped, and their tips led directly to her body.
That same week, those same pla...
When "Peaceful Protests" Become Mob Justice: The Melodee Buzzard Case
A TikToker has been posting videos of “peaceful protests” at Ashlee Bussard’s home. Videos are posted of people with signs standing in the street outside her home. People are even approaching the home’s door, knocking and talking, in hopes...
The Deathwatch: Why We Need Gary Ridgway to Be Dying
In the past few days, news broke that Gary Ridgeway, the Green River Killer, was receiving end-of-life care at the Washington State Penitentiary, according to an anonymous source. One of America’s most prolific serial killers, finally dying...
D4vd Case: When Internet Sleuths Named a Suspect Before Police Did
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I’ve been watching the Celeste Rivas Hernandez case unfold, and it has quickly become a textbook example of the exact thing I’ll be exploring on The Crime We Create podcast: The mom...
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Social psychology nerd examining true crime culture and my own complicity. What crime do we create through our attention? The resources we mobilize. The people we ignore. The false accusations.
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