Crime in Culture: Why Lucy Letby? And The Patient

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 …

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Think Twice Michael Jackson: A True Crime Podcast about Reckoning with Michael Jackson’s Legacy

  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 …

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I Am Not Nicholas: A True Crime Podcast About Identity and the Rossi/Knight case.

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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Stolen Hearts: A True Crime Podcast About Love

Genre cross-overs in most entertainment can work incredibly well, such as horror comedy. The reason that this works so well is that is that horror and comedy are two sides of the same coin, they both rely on the unexpected for their big pay off, and so mould well together. Not so much true crime and romance. Sure there are couples in true crime, Bonnie and Clyde, Starkweath and Fugate who Natural Born Killer's Micky and Mallory was based on, and later Iain Brady and Myra Hindley. While there are a few big names, couples where both are active in a crime tend to be the exception rather than the rule, but even more rare are couples where one is a criminal, and the other is a serving police officer.

Crime in Culture Round Up: The Unforgotten and Villan or Victim?

We do women no favours if we discount their violence, their crimes or the great damage we can do and only see them as victims. More importantly we compound the damage they have done to their victims. We, however also do wrong if we don't take into account the fact that we live in a society where it is all to easy for impressionable, vulnerable women to be manipulated by older, more powerful men. My answer to the question that we should never be asking, if these women are victims or villian, is instead to let go of the pervasive "perfect victim," fallacy and accept that a great deal of the time, people can be both.