While Coccio eventually left the subreddit, many others stayed. Dawn Cecil, a criminology professor at the University of South Florida and author of, says that many who engage with true crime forums have “good intentions of wanting to help solve a crime or find a missing person”; some also want to draw attention to miscarriages of justice and question the effectiveness of the criminal justice system.
Still, Cecil warns that true crime forums can become echo chambers that feed fear or buttress preexisting beliefs. Consuming true crime, as she details in her book, can also skew people’s perception of crime and reinforce stereotypes. It can also lead people to things they regret. Marcus is a 42-year-old from Seattle who joined Reddit purely so he could post on r/serialpodcast. At first he found it “fun,” but in his time there he has been verbally attacked as well as doxed—a stranger from the subreddit once called him at work.
“I am embarrassed and ashamed of how gleefully I came back to this sub to look at lividity documents, et cetera, without fully considering that the victim was a real person,” she says. “A teenager died; multiple other teenagers’ lives were completely upended … It’s just all sad. And I think that does affect my mental health.”
Two years ago, Marcus took a step back from r/serialpodcast. “It became really bad for my mental health, arguing the same arguments,” he says. When Syed was released from prison last month, Marcus returned to r/serialpodcast—but he imagines it won’t be for long. Meghan says she will stop consuming
The shows are necessarily the problem, though the Dahmer one tried way too hard to give sympathy for the devil, the online discourse nowadays is the problem with so many contrarians and grifters out here hustling for clout and YT money.
garbage.
Yeah
but crime p0rn is good for tv channels, advertisers and paychecks
It seems the article is not really about consuming too much true crime, but instead it's about getting too involved in online debate. The same is true for any topic that divides people. Sports, politics, reality tv etc.
This country seems obsessed with serial killers and murders in general.
Its Like stopping the car to look at a car accident
I feel for the people who fall victim or families of the victims of “Celebrity” killers. However, in the industry if it is public you can turn anything into entertainment. If it gives you that big $$$ the industry doesn’t care if feelings are hurt.
Don't like it? Don't watch
Nah, just mind your own business
I don’t watch this stuff, war movies, horror or pro sports balls. We feed what we consume.
It’s not
Probably the same thing that happened to those poor gamers who played first person shooters in the 90s that everyone was freaking out about. Sad what happened to all those crazed psychopaths. They never had a chance.
Yep
Plus, plus, plus! You could be bored to death’
srsly HOW did this article get written w no mention of michelle mcnamara? a brilliant consumer of true crime who nearly solved a decades-old spree of violence that cops in multiple jurisdictions couldn't. her obsession w the case also basically led directly to her death
this may be of interest DanBox10
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