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In the Dark and
Atlanta Monster, there’s no shortage of true crime podcasts. The genre is so huge that Netflix whose offerings in this arena include
The Staircase, and many more even created a parody true crime series (
American Vandal). Which raises the question: Why are we so obsessed with true crime? Here’s what the experts have to say.
1. Because being obsessed with true crime is normal (to a point).
First things first: There’s nothing weird about being true crime obsessed. “It says that we re normal and we re healthy,” Dr. Michael Mantell, former chief psychologist of the San Diego Police Department, told NPR in 2009. “I think our interest in crime serves a number of different healthy psychological purposes.” Of course, there are limits: “If all you do is read about crime and . all you do is talk about it and you have posters of it, and you have newspaper article clippings in your desk drawer, I d be concerned,” he said.
One such killer is typical, in a number of ways, of all the others: a middle-aged nurse who was known to her coworkers in small-town Ontario as Bethe Wettlaufer. When the scholars were publishing their 2015 review of her fellow predators, Wettlaufer was winding up a decade-long killing spree that, to this day, would have gone completely undetected if she hadn’t decided to walk into a Toronto psychiatrist’s office and confess.
Eight people had died at her hands, she confided. She’d injected them with lethal doses of insulin between 2007 and 2016. There were, she added, six more victims who survived, in three different long-term care homes and one private residence. These were men and women with long, vibrant lives and families who loved them and were shocked by their sudden passing but accepted the institutional write-offs, the lack of autopsies, and the shrugging condolences: Old people. They die.