It's late at night.

You've had a long day at work.

You're exhausted.

You finally turn out all the lights and go to bed.

But, of course, you get a notification on your phone.

You have to check it, right?

You're not sleeping yet, so you take a quick look.

And that's when you see that it's about that story that

you've been following all week. The International Manhunt that's basically the next smash-hit

true-crime docu-series in the making in real time. And updates are coming in rapid fire.

You sit bolt upright, take a deep breath, and begin scrolling.

For the next two hours, you devour every delicious detail about the grisly crime, the search

for a fugitive, and the mindless commentary that goes along with it.

Our collective obsession with true crime stories has, of course, exploded in the last

several years.

And movies, books, podcasts, social media,

daily news stories, they all feed this obsession constantly. It's pretty easy to think that this is a

relatively new thing, but of course, it's not. And while it may be difficult to pinpoint a single

moment in history when this cultural phenomenon began, there is one story, which may be difficult to pinpoint a single moment in history when this cultural phenomenon began,

there is one story, which may be the very reason why you're up late at night doom scrolling.

One story about a brutal murder, the heart-pounding pursuit of the killer, and a revolutionary

new technology which sparked a cultural obsession that we still can't get enough of.

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