True Crime/Quotes

"[...] I always find myself extremely wary when the public gets interested in unsolved cases. It's really easy for cable news, schlock documentaries, and click-bait websites to exploit these. Even when a story is done well with a painstakingly researched and unbiased look at a case like the Serial podcast's first season it makes me uneasy because it seems to inspire the interwebs to unleash the worst kind of speculative nonsense without regard to facts or the realization that most crime is depressingly mundane and that it's almost never the result of a flashy serial killer or a conspiracy of some kind.

(I'm not immune to this either. I spent more time than I like to admit poring over the cell phone logs and tower maps posted on the Serial website coming up with my own theory. So I totally understand the allure of a true crime mystery. I just don't trust the average interwebs user's ability to solve one. That includes me.)"

—Kemper, in his review of True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray by James Renner.