Serial Killer Grifter | Part I | 21

Scamfluencers

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.1 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In the late 1970s, a French horror fan named Stéphane Bourgoin becomes obsessed with serial killers. He manages a used bookstore specializing in crime fiction and begins writing articles on the topic, fashioning himself into an expert on all things morbid. And his career really takes off when he scores the opportunity of his dreams: to interview actual serial killers in prison. But the more influential he becomes, the closer he’ll get to being found out: as the ultimate fanboy and a total fraud.

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0:26.1	Stay tuned a little later in the show
0:28.2	for a conversation with Madeline Nusser,
0:30.8	vice president of creative content
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0:39.5	identity theft and fraud.
0:47.1	Sachi, did you ever go through like a real true crime phase? And I mean like murder story, true
0:53.5	crime. When I was 15, I found all of the
0:57.3	A&E serial killer documentaries on YouTube and I watched them several times over and over again.
1:03.9	Okay. Well, around the same age, I read Halter Skelter for the first time. It's like a right of passage for women who have a higher likelihood of being murdered.
1:15.5	Yeah.
1:16.0	Everyone does love a good, trashy, true crime story.
1:20.3	But I guess the question I have is, like, who gets to tell those stories?
1:24.2	And how were those stories told before podcasts?
1:27.9	Which, I guess, Helter Skelter and A&E on YouTube.
1:31.2	Yeah, and cops.
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