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Each week we decide who's to blame for historical tragedy.

And each week you tell us if we got it right. My name is Rebecca Delgado Smith and this is the aftermath.

Hi everyone, thanks for tuning into this episode of the aftermath.

Today we'll be speaking with guest expert Alyssa Smith.

She's a 20th century US violence and crime researcher

for the History Department at the University of Chicago.

Let's hear what she has to say about the Betty Broderick murders.

Hi, Elissa, thank you so much for joining us today.

How they going?

Good. So, can we start off by having you tell

our listeners about your particular area of study? Absolutely. First of all, thank

you so much for having me. I'm excited to be here. My name is Alyssa Smith. I'm a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Chicago.

And I study histories of violence, social movements, and pop culture in the United States.

So my research as a historian focuses on popular narratives about spectacle murder cases

like this one, and especially how those narratives affected society

and culture in the US from about like 1969 to 2000. So because that's my area

I'm mostly going to be talking about the information that like regular folks

consumed about this case as it was happening rather than details or or facts in

a legal sense. How do you define the term spectacle murder and do the Betty Broderick murders fall into that category?

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