This video has been on my to-do list for a while! Enjoy early access until next week! The public version will be a different upload so please reserve your comments for it (or feel free to post them twice on both videos)
Sources & Further Reading
The Rise of True Crime (Jean Murley)
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/21/arts/ethics-reporters-and-the-new-yorker.html
https://ygo-assets-websites-editorial-emea.yougov.net/documents/True_Crume_poll_results_20240613.pdf
https://gizmodo.com/the-long-life-and-quiet-death-of-true-detective-magazin-1725094095
https://longreads.com/2019/01/18/true-crime-and-the-trash-balance/
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/06/true-detectives-serial-the-jinx/393575/
https://www.latimes.com/books/la-ca-jc-megan-abbott-true-crime-20180614-story.html
https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/latoyia-figueroa
https://www.unforgotten51.com/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/530930?mag=bloody-history-of-true-crime-genre&seq=1
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-04-08-bk-1637-story.html
https://crimereads.com/the-bizarre-newspaper-hoax-that-nearly-ruined-lizzie-borden/
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/too-close-to-ted-bundy
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-biographer-of-monsters/
https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2017.1370714
https://www.newspapers.com/image/285548858/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3998/mpub.11435021.11
https://www.bu.edu/articles/2025/why-were-fascinated-true-crime-stories/
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/11/04/true-crime-qa-lennon-book-keller
https://www.jstor.org/stable/44364921
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/magazine/true-crime-shows-prison.html
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25125321
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/zodiac-killer-18436725.php
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-03-25-mn-51081-story.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/23/business/media/23carr.html?_r=2&
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/509038/pizzeria-owners-bizarre-plot-capture-zodiac-killer
http://washingtonpost.com/business/2019/03/21/does-netflix-have-killer-problem/
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/true%20crime https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2017.1370714
https://nccriminallaw.sog.unc.edu/2018/10/04/what-we-can-learn-from-jack-the-ripper/#:~:text=The%20reaction%20to%20the%20Ripper%20murders%20had,to%20improve%20health%20and%20housing%20for%20poor
https://time.com/4172673/true-crime-allure/
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/21/travel/jack-the-ripper-dark-tourism-london
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2025/04/travel/jonestown-guyana-tourism-cnnphotos/index.html
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/21/travel/jack-the-ripper-dark-tourism-london
https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1996/11/09/most-wanted-returns-tonight/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40068351?mag=when-true-crime-radio-dramas-lost-listeners
https://crimereads.com/a-brief-history-of-the-rise-and-evolution-of-true-crime-books/
https://www.racked.com/2018/1/26/16927682/makeover-death-penalty-sabella-nitti
https://news.wttw.com/2017/06/21/ugly-prey-tells-story-first-woman-sentenced-hang-chicago
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jocb.70100
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2019/09/the-notebooks-behind-truman-capotes-in-cold-blood/
https://www.cielodrive.com/archive/bitter-milkman-issue-again-haunts-bugliosi/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/hybristophilia-study-links-tiktok-women-194549778.html
https://www.wired.com/2016/05/false-confessions/
https://www.vulture.com/2018/07/tv-true-crime-networks-how-they-find-their-stories.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna9016541
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/07/us/missing-womans-case-spurs-discussion-of-news-coverage.html
https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7586&context=jclc
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/15405702.2025.2552778?needAccess=true
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-04-08-bk-1637-story.html