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Americans’ obsessive indulgence in true crime media desensitizes the tragedy of real world events

Americans’ obsessive indulgence in true crime media desensitizes the tragedy of real world events

Shubha Gautam November 9, 2021
The presumed starting point of America’s allure to true crime dates back to the Puritan execution sermons detailing the appalling acts of executed persons of the 17th and 18th centuries, the time of Jack the Ripper and the publishing of “The Studies of Murder” by Edmund Pearson in 1924. The publication of the non-fiction book “In Cold Blood” by Truman Capote in 1966, detailing the impact and event of the 1959 murder of a family from a small community in rural Kansas, officially established true crime fascination in the U.S. In 1974, Charles Bugliosi, the prosecutor for the Manson murders case, set the precedent for books on criminal trials with “Helter Skelter.”
Homies and Homicide: Episode 16 Without a Trace

Homies and Homicide: Episode 16 “Without a Trace”

Devin Hall January 31, 2020
In this episode the of previously entitled podcast Dinner and a Murder (now Homies and Homicide), hosts Devin Hall, Lorelei Dohm, and Rachel Stevens discuss the not so well known but horrifying murders and kidnappings committed by Larry DeWayne Hall.
Dinner and a Murder: Episode 13 Young and Hungry (for blood)

Dinner and a Murder: Episode 13 “Young and Hungry (for blood)”

Devin Hall January 22, 2020
In this episode of Dinner and a Murder, hosts discuss the lesser know murder of two young boys by the hands of 11 year old killer, Mary Bell.
Dinner and a Murder: Episode 10 Black Christmas Pt 1

Dinner and a Murder: Episode 10 “Black Christmas” Pt 1

Devin Hall December 31, 2019

In this episode of Dinner and a murder, Devin Hall, Rachel Stevens, and Lorelei Dohm cover the murder of child pageant queen Jonbenet Ramsey who was murdered on December 25th, 1996. Host Hall, Stevens,...

Dinner and a Murder: Episode 8 No Place Like Home

Dinner and a Murder: Episode 8 “No Place Like Home”

Devin Hall December 13, 2019

In this episode of Dinner and a Murder, Devin Hall, Lorelei Dohm, and Rachel Stevens discuss a true crime story of incredible survivor, Mary Vincent and how she escaped from the hands of a real life monster...

Dinner and a Murder: Episode 5 Mind Full of Poison

Dinner and a Murder: Episode 5 “Mind Full of Poison”

Devin Hall December 1, 2019

In this episode of Dinner and a Murder, hosts Devin Hall, Lorelei Dohm, and Rachel Stevens cover another home state murder, this time one that happened in the 1980's in Kansas City. "The Butcher of Kansas...

Dinner and a Murder: Episode 3 My Babysitters a Murder Victim

Dinner and a Murder: Episode 3 “My Babysitter’s a Murder Victim”

Devin Hall November 25, 2019
"Dinner and a Murder" is a podcast made by Devin Hall, Lorelei Dohm, and Rachel Stevens. This episode is about a young girl murdered while babysitting.
Art by Lorelei Dohm.

Review, ridicule create culture of ‘canceling’

Sarah Ding November 6, 2019
Cancel culture, facilitated in part by modern social media use and popular opinion, can create environments of ridicule and shame.
A life for a life: unacceptable judicial policy

A life for a life: unacceptable judicial policy

Jenna Liu May 18, 2014

[slider source="media: 264149" limit="7" target="blank" height="340" title="no" centered="no" mousewheel="no" speed="500"]Clayton Lockett lay restrained on a steel gurney as a lethal, three-drug cocktail...

Ryan Ferguson freed after nearly a decade

Ryan Ferguson freed after nearly a decade

Hagar Gov-Ari December 18, 2013

[quote]Do what you can do to prove your innocence.  At least that’s what I told myself. [/quote] After nine years, eight months and two days of wrongful imprisonment, Ryan Ferguson was released from...

5 JFK articles every American should read

5 JFK articles every American should read

Ashleigh Atasoy November 22, 2013

Fifty years ago today, America witnessed the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Kennedy was hit by two bullets from Lee Harvey Oswald's gun and died just a few hours later.  The fourth president...

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