How True Crime Exploits Victims | Dark Dives

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Blair Zoń

Documentary, Education, Business, Society & Culture

4.4 • 961 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Go to http://mintmobile.com/casper to cut your wireless bill to $15 a month and get the plan shipped to your door for free. Welcome to Dark Dives, a new series where we explore the murky and devious depths of humanity. This goes beyond corporate greed and get rich quick schemes, beyond shady products and questionable CEOs. Here, we take a look at the very worst of humanity, to see what evil people are truly capable of. Many watch true crime to try and understand the depravity behind it; why do people do what they do? However, sometimes, we need to turn that question back onto ourselves; why do we watch what we watch, and is it healthy to see crime in this light? Connect With Me: https://linktr.ee/iilluminaughtii’ Sources: https://justpaste.it/akudv Writers/Researchers/Helpers: Ali Z-B This episode was edited and mixed by: G. Thomas Craig Album cover art created by: Betsy Primes Intro Song Credits: Last to Fall- Will Van De Crommert Outro Song Credits: Sacred and Profane- Nicholas Rowe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	True Crime as a form of entertainment has been around for quite a while, long before investigation discovery and Netflix documentaries anyway.
0:08.0	Just look at the way newspapers talked about Jack the Ripper over a hundred years ago.
0:12.0	They sensationalize the murders and
0:14.0	journalists even used the opportunity to draw racist conclusions. They said things
0:18.7	like the people of Whitechapel were suspicious and unhealthy and a quote strange amalgamation of Jews, French, Germans, and other antagonistic elements.
0:28.0	Virtually every paper back then blamed the women for putting themselves in a position of a murder victim, saying they lived an unfortunate life.
0:35.0	Yes, the tabloids existed over a hundred years ago, and yes, they covered topics as unsettling as this,
0:41.0	even sensationalizing and dramatizing the events to sell papers.
0:44.3	Sound familiar? Unfortunately, we haven't got much better today. True crime may
0:50.0	look different now, but there are still a lot of similarities between these
0:53.3	tabloids and the way true crime is presented. This isn't to say that all true
0:57.5	crime shows are presented in an exploitative nature, but human tragedy is all too often
1:02.2	seen as entertainment.
1:04.3	Recently more and more fans of the true crime genre
1:07.2	have started to take note of this and spoke out,
1:09.5	especially after the horrific way
1:11.0	some of these cases have been treated in the past couple years.
1:13.6	I know that's a car in the past that Brian has been driving, but then it got really interesting.
1:18.3	The mom got back into the pickup truck.
1:20.3	Brian needs to talk now, and by now he needs to talk yesterday.
1:23.8	We now know Gabby was killed, and the missing...
1:26.1	Less than two years ago, the case of 22-year-old Gabby Petito went viral.
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