Hi, I'm Celicia Stanton and I was recently robbed of my entire life savings by someone I thought I could trust

But hold up. Let's rewind

For years like you or at least like someone you know, I kept coming back to this captivating and questionable genre

true crime

Growing up I watched reruns of forensic files later on I binge Netflix specials got lost in the fiction of criminal minds

and read long form investigative journalism here and there

Serial was the podcast that got me into podcasts

Then 2020 hit and in the middle of the pandemic

I was the victim of a huge financial scheme one that defrauded me of tens of thousands of dollars and before I knew it

I found myself caught in a tangled web of tears cops and courts

Violence wasn't necessarily new to me, but this was

Suddenly I was learning first hand with the justice and criminal justice really meant and

I'm still not sure why but in my grief over what had happened to me

I found myself turning again to true crime

Hearing story after story somehow helped me cope

It was weird and maybe it was numbing and maybe it was just something to do but either way I kept listening and

Listening and I couldn't shake the feeling that the picture just felt so incomplete

I found myself with a lot of questions

Does the story really end with a headline arrest or a guilty verdict?

How can we actually support victims and what if the perpetrator the criminal is the government?

The same government that decides what counts as crime in the first place

What does justice really mean and who is it really for?

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