Tag: true crime culture

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Is True Crime Entertainment Helping Us Process Violence, or Just Profiting From It?

A teenage girl walks into a police station and confesses to a murder she didn't commit. The premise sounds ripped from a headline, and for the film The Blame, it was. But the real

The Monster We Made of Lizzie Borden

Children used to chant it on playgrounds. Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks. The rhyme turned a double homicide into a nursery game, and a wealthy, thirty-