Fiona McFarlane on Murder's Ripple Effects
Briefly

Its personable hosts were a real form of company for me during the pandemic lockdowns, and I was interested by that: why and how did I find comfort in terrible tales told by empathetic, bewildered people walking the perilous line between irreverence and respect?
One of the ethical concerns raised by retellings of serial murders is that the killers themselves become mythic figures, steeped in a glamorized notoriety. So I wanted to think about true-crime storytelling that didn't center the killer.
Read at The New Yorker
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