We humans have always been intrigued by crime and murder stories, but when did those obsessions claim their place in entertainment?
Kay Koch discusses Michelle Eileen McNamara’s book: I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer.
Juliana Valente goes back in time to discuss Thomas De Quincey and Edgar Allan Poe’s influence on the genre, and three early American woman writers who helped define the crime/true crime genre as we know it today.
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