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Hello, hello. Welcome to episode 34 of Criminal Broads, a true crime podcast about,

I don't even have time to tell you what the podcast is about.

If you don't know, you don't know.

I just have so much information to tell you during this introduction, and I've got to get started on it.

Okay. First of all, today's episode is a bit of a departure from our usual one story about one

woman format. It is an interview. Now, this episode is kind of a meta episode. I've got the

amazing author Rachel Monroe on the podcast to discuss true

crime, why we like true crime, if it's okay to like true crime, and also four different

stories of women who are connected in thrilling and unusual ways to this little thing called

true crime. Ever heard of it? So you're getting four mini stories for the price of one,

plus a lot of observations and anecdotes from a very intelligent woman who spends a lot of time

thinking about this whole genre that we're all obsessed with already. I'm pretty sure many of

you will have already encountered Rachel's work. Do you remember that story

in the Atlantic last year about the con man whose female victims came together to take him

down? Rachel wrote it. It's amazing. I'm going to link to it in the show notes. And now she has a

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