There are a lot of true crime haters in this world, and frankly, I get it! Not everybody has the temperament and the willpower to watch or listen to hours of painstakingly long and graphic content about murders . When I was a teenager, I was far more interested in true crime documentaries about kidnapping cases like Jaycee Lee Dugard or Elizabeth Smart than I was in serial killers. I was a casual 20/20 viewer, but that would rarely get as intense as the true crime media we see dominating today'…

Why? Just why?

The Batmobile, but for paranoid suburbanites!

Did you guys know that movies and TV…are not real? Crazy, I know. It can be shocking and even harrowing to discover that screenwriters do not actually know the 411 on the industries they write about. Whether it be Chicago Fire, Chicago Med, Chicago P.D., Law and Order, Law and Order SVU, or even Grey's Anatomy , I can practically guarantee you that none of the writers of those shows have ever been a cop, firefighter, or doctor. Because of this lack of industry overlap, there are countless discr…

Is Ryan Holle truly an accomplice to murder? Well, that depends on what you think of Geoff's haircut.

True crime has been among the most popular podcast genres over the past decade. Unlike shows like ‘Law & Order SUV,' which depicts police attempting to solve fictional crimes, true crime media is focused on crimes that actually happened. While true crime documentaries and books have been popular for decades, true crime podcasts are a more recent phenomenon that has blown up in popularity over the past five years. However, true crime has not been without criticism, with detractors calling it cav…

Well, that escalated quickly…

This country's (and maybe the world's) obsession with murder is a bit alarming. We'd have to say that most people are fascinated by dark tales of grisly killings, serial killers, and murder mysteries. The television industry makes a fortune on it. And the murder-minded aren't limited to big screens. True crime podcasts haven't helped things. If anything, they've stoked this raging fire. What's weirder is that it seems like most murder mystery and true crime buffs are women. We settle into our c…

It's thorough

Memes while we wait for the new murder doc to drop