True Crime!
Episode description
Bibliography and Notes
The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust by Diana B. Henriques
Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants: The Female Gang That Terrorized London by Brian McDonald
Watching the Detectives: Crime Programming, Fear of Crime, and Attitudes About the Criminal Justice System by Lisa A. Kort-Butler and Kelley J. Sittner Hartshorn (The Sociological Quarterly vol. 52 issue 1)
Why Do Women Love True Crime? by Kate Tuttle (The New York Times, 15 July 2019)
Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession by Rachel Monroe
Why Are Women Obsessed with True Crime? Rachel Monroe Has Some Answers by J. Oliver Conroy (The Guardian, 20 August 2019)
Captured by True Crime: Why Are Women Drawn to Tales of Rape, Murder, and Serial Killers? by Amanda M. Vicary and R. Chris Fraley (Social Psychological and Personality Science, vol. 1 issue 1)
Why Do We Find True Crime Fascinating? ‘Savage Appetites’ Looks For An Answer by Ilana Masad (NPR, 20 August 2019)
Language, Ideology, and Identity in Serial Killer Narratives by Christiana Gregoriou
Book Review: Language, Ideology, and Identity in Serial Killer Narratives by Athina Karatzogianni (Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics, vol. 22 issue 2)
The Stranger Beside Me: The Inside Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy by Ann Rule
Escape by Carolyn Jessop and Laura Palmer
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
The Monster of Florence: A True Story by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
Small Sacrifices by Ann Rule
Serial (podcast by Sarah Koenig)
My Favorite Murder (podcast by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark)
And That’s Why We Drink (podcast by Christine Schiefer and Em Schulz)
Let’s Go To Court (podcast by Brandi Egan and Kristin Caruso)
What Should I Read Next? (program by The New York Public Library)
American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century by Maureen Callahan
A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong
Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls by Jessica McDiarmid
Ask a Librarian Chat (service by University of Wisconsin-Madison library system)
Corrections
Charlotte described The Devil in the White City as being about the “1983 World’s Fair.” The Devil in the White City chronicles the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition.