I used to be pretty neutral about it -people are obsessed with all kinds of weird shit, why is this any different- but then my cousin did some truly horrifying national news making shit (and then in an unrelated incident, another family member was murdered incredibly publicly…) and… oh boy. The truecrime community is full of some of the truly most self-absorbed, main character syndrome people. A particular favorite was when someone who’d been hounding a family member for details, and who was subsequently blocked for it, dug up their address and wrote them a physical letter asking for details, in pink ink.
Just. How tone-deaf do you have to be to think that’s at all appropriate? what the fuck?
I like crime, it’s interesting, but in 99% of the true crime I’m interested in nobody gets injured. Weird how the “truecrime” podcasts never seem to feature, like, elaborate fraud schemes, you have to go to the financial podcasts to find it (and oh boy are they awful in new and exciting ways!)
I used to be pretty neutral about it -people are obsessed with all kinds of weird shit, why is this any different- but then my cousin did some truly horrifying national news making shit (and then in an unrelated incident, another family member was murdered incredibly publicly…) and… oh boy. The truecrime community is full of some of the truly most self-absorbed, main character syndrome people. A particular favorite was when someone who’d been hounding a family member for details, and who was subsequently blocked for it, dug up their address and wrote them a physical letter asking for details, in pink ink.
Just. How tone-deaf do you have to be to think that’s at all appropriate? what the fuck?
I like crime, it’s interesting, but in 99% of the true crime I’m interested in nobody gets injured. Weird how the “truecrime” podcasts never seem to feature, like, elaborate fraud schemes, you have to go to the financial podcasts to find it (and oh boy are they awful in new and exciting ways!)
Have you done the “swindled” podcast? I agree with you that the white collar stuff is more interesting and likely much more impactful in society