Stories about white women or children getting killed or kidnapped make international headlines and prompt worldwide outrage - as we saw in Netflix's "The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann'' - while stories about victims of color are like a blip on the radar. Think about the most talked-about true crime series and documentaries from the last several years: new episodes of "The Staircase," "The Jinx," "Amanda Knox," "I Love You, Now Die," "The Confession Killer," and "American Murder." Regardless of the caliber of various true crime projects, most are still overwhelmingly centered around stories of white, middle or upper-middle class, victims. Streaming services have designated tabs for the genre, annual sales for true crime books have jumped by nearly $600,000 over the last five years, and when Oxygen hosted "12 Dark Days of Serial Killers," a series of shows about mass murderers, in April 2020, the network reported its highest-rated week in five years.Īs with any genre, there's a spectrum of quality when it comes to the content - ranging from salacious fetishzation of serial killers at the expense of the victims, to deeply nuanced and boundary-pushing series like "Murder on Middle Beach" and "I'll Be Gone in the Dark." ![]() ![]() ![]() In pop culture, we're still riding a gigantic true crime wave.
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