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 …
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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 …
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There are some crimes which are so horrible to think about, we have not, as a society been able to deal with them well collectively. Child sexual abuse is most firmly in that category. It was only really in the 1970s that society started to acknowledge that child sexual abuse was something that happened, and …
Hallie Rubenhold broke into the true crime scene and riperology in 2019, and caused quite the stir. What was so shocking about Hallie's take on the ultimate cold case? Had she found definative proof that connected Jack the Ripper to the royal family or the Masonic Lodge? Was there a whole new theory about who …
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When you peruse the myriad of reviews of The Bigmaist many readers admire Turner-Thompson for her bravery of telling her story in public. A similar amount of people finish the book wondering why on earth she went so far, and so deep into the relationship with Jordan when there were so many red flags. It is a natural thing to wonder, but we also fool ourselves if we think we will not be so easily taken in. A huge amount of people fall foul every year to scams sometimes romantic, often monetary, in person, online and over the phone. None of the people who are caught out ever thought before they would be the kind of person who would fall foul of such duplicitousness. Don't we all like the think, to hope, that we would be the one who would turn the tide and be far too clever for those kinds of schemes.
It is unfortunately a story that we are familure with, from crime fiction and true crime. A body is found, an investigation is started, and then it goes... nowhere. It is one of the most poingant of all crime narratives because nobody wants to be in the horrible limbo of waiting to find out if …
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In Relentless Persuit Edwards shows us that one person with enough tenacity can work against forces much larger and more powerful than himself. However it is not in everybodies gift to do that kind of work, and not every victim will be lucky enough to have Edwards, or a lawyer of his caliber, on their side.
We Need To Talk About Crosby, has now been released on BBC I-player. This four part documentary takes a deep dive into the career and crimes of Bill Cosby, comedian, trail blazer and serial rapists. The documentary delicately deals with not just those who Crosby raped, but also those who had at one point held …
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