Joining the police force is not a move to be taken lightly. Police people need to be ready to deal with anything, and will often be interacting with the public in what may be some of the worst moments of their lives, not conditions under which many of us shine. As well as seeing some …
There are some emotions, some cognative processess which different cultures don't do well with. It's nobodies fault. Something happened, probably at a formative point in the culture which meant that whatever feeling or opinion was under examination, would not again be the choice of that group of people. Many cultures which have western christianity as …
Continue reading Shadow of Doubt: An Australian True Crime Podcast About Familial Abuse
In the late 70s Margaret Thatcher was begining to develop one of the most well known tennants of Thatcherisim the often quoted "there is not such thing as society," which like many quotes, think Marx and religion being the opium of the massess, has become unmoored from it's context. However the impact of the quote …
Continue reading Crime In Culture: The White House Farm Murders
Britain, and the nursing profession have been rocked by the trial of Lucy Letby. For those who do not know this case, Letby was a placid looking neo-natal nurse. Loved by patients parents to the extent one couple considered making her a Godmother to their child (whom she tried to kill) and well liked amoung …
Continue reading Crime in Culture: Why Lucy Letby? And The Patient
We all know that periods of time get names. There are the decades like the roaring 20's or the great depression in America's 1930s. Artistic styles are also name periods of creation baroque, rococo. There may be more scientific namings, covering great swathes of time in geology before humans even graced the planet, or …
There are some people who become much more than who they were as a phsyical living, breathing, person. Instead they appear to grow into something bigger, and symbolise something greater than who they ever were in life. One example of such is King Arthur. Originally a pagan war lord of the Britons, he has …
Continue reading Crime in Culture: Podcasts about the Black Dahlia
We all have an identity, it is what makes us who we are as individuals. It can be made up of a combination of physical traits, personal traits, style, attitudes, but it can also be found lodged in the small things we do which often go unnoticed by others. It is not fixed and it …
Continue reading I Am Not Nicholas: A True Crime Podcast About Identity and the Rossi/Knight case.
There are moments in every narrative genre where a story comes along and through a magic combination of craft, skill, charctors and plotting that transcends the genre itself, and becomes more than it's parts and tells us something vital and compelling about ourselves and wider humanity. It is exactly this that happenes in the new …
It's not unusual for a new true crime drama to drop on television and for everyone to be talking about it. It reaches a larger audience than those who consume true crime podcasts and brings to light crimes that either the general public hasn't heard of, or were too young at the time to remember. …
This week in The Guardian, the excellent Nancy Jo Sales, tried to answer the question "Why do women like true crime so much?" In it Sales suggests that possibly one of the reason is the rise in dating apps, and the challenges in navigating a dating world where women still fundementally feel as though there …
Continue reading Crime in Culture: Nancy Jo Sales, True Crime And Dating Apps
