Ep 157: True Crime as Entertainment (A Victim's Story with Amy B. Chesler)

10 Things To Tell You

Laura Tremaine

Society & Culture, Unknown, Personal Journals

4.7 • 930 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This is an important topic. Since the explosion in popularity of the true crime genre over the last decade, I've questioned the ethics of crime as entertainment. Many of us have become obsessed with grisley stories of murder. But have you ever actually talked to someone whose loved one was murdered? Would it change your opinion on the true crime entertainment genre? This episode is a conversation with author, award-winning blogger, and actress Amy B. Chesler. Amy's mother was murdered in 2007 and her book Working for Justice: One Family's Tale of Murder, Betrayal, and Healing is about the events before and after this tragic event. Amy surprised me with her take on the popularity of the true crime genre and it definitely affected how I consume these stories. FULL SHOW NOTES ARE HERE MENTIONED in this episode: Amy B. Chesler's website Working for Justice: One Family’s Tale of Murder, Betrayal, and Healing by Amy B. Chesler Evil Lives Here episode with Amy Chesler "Making a Murderer" Documentary on Netflix "The Real Bling Ring: Hollywood Heist" Documentary on Netflix "Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey" Documentary in Netflix I Know What You Did Last Summer by Lois Duncan Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan Who killed My Daughter by Lois Duncan Something Was Wrong podcast Unsilenced Voices podcast "A Murder in Mansfield" documentary on Amazon Prime Dirty Money podcast Dirty John podcast SPONSORS: Betterhelp.com/YOU for 10% off your first month Apostrophe.com/YOU and use code YOU to get your initial visit for just $5 SUBSCRIBE to 10 Things To Tell You so you never miss an episode! CLICK HERE for episode show notes FOLLOW @10ThingsToTellYou on Instagram FOLLOW @10ThingsToTellYou on Facebook JOIN the 10 Things To Tell You Connection Group SIGN UP for episode emails, links, and show notes JOIN the Secret Stuff patreon BUY THE BOOK: Share Your Stuff. I'll Go First. by Laura Tremaine PREORDER: The Life Council: 10 Friends Every Woman Needs by Laura Tremaine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode contains discussion of domestic violence and murder.
0:04.4	Please take care while listening. I'm Laura Tremaine and I have 10 things to tell you and you have 10 things to tell.
0:22.0	This show is about Connection. You have 10 things to tell.
0:23.0	This show is about connection with each other and with ourselves.
0:27.2	And the hope is that the things we talk about here will be fuel for better conversations
0:31.6	and a personal awareness.
0:33.6	Each episode has a prompt or a topic
0:35.8	that I want you to take to your journal, text to a friend,
0:39.1	or share on social media using the hashtag 10 things to tell you. This is a show about digging deeper and
0:45.9	sharing our stuff. I'll go first. I recorded this conversation you're about to hear six weeks
0:52.3	ago or more and ever since I have been
0:55.0	thinking about it and wanting to share it with you because I believe the topic is so important.
1:00.9	I've joked here before that I was into true crime before true crime was cool and that is absolutely true.
1:08.0	Starting way back in elementary school, I became fascinated with historic disasters like the sinking of the Titanic.
1:14.9	And then when I got a bit older, like in high school and college, I started reading a lot of books
1:19.9	about serial killers and famous murders. This was one of my very favorite genres of entertainment for a really long time, well into the 2000s and early 2010s.
1:31.6	At the time, this was a pretty small corner of the reading world.
1:35.4	I had to search for these books and the TV shows that I liked,
1:39.4	like Court TV, Forensic Files.
1:41.8	They were all on the lowest budget cable channels.
1:45.3	This was not something that most people admitted loving.
1:50.4	Still, it never occurred to me to be uncomfortable with these true crime stories from an ethical point of view until the explosion of popularity in this genre.
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