True Crime Reckonings and Revelations: A Conversation with Sarah Weinman on "Evidence of Things Seen"
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🗓️ 10 July 2023
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Summary
Sarah Weinman is an award-winning writer and editor who has spent years covering crime, the true crime genre, and crime fiction. She's recently edited an anthology Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of reckoning. It's a collection that asks tough questions about our understanding of crime, and efforts to document crimes in both traditional outlets and new media.
In this episode, The Murder Sheet sits down with Sarah to discuss the book, the process for compiling so many diverse and interesting voices in one volume, ethical considerations in true crime and crime journalism, and the crime fiction author Margaret Millar!
Read Sarah's New York Times op-ed here: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/15/opinion/true-crime-crisis.html
Read Sarah's article on Linda Millar and her family here: https://crimereads.com/linda-interrupted/
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| 0:00.0 | At the murder sheet, we love books and articles that challenge our thinking on true crime. |
| 0:06.0 | True crime, of course, is a sprawling genre that can incorporate everything from tabloid-style |
| 0:11.6 | solaciousness to thought-provoking investigative journalism to chat-style shows with a flair |
| 0:17.7 | for casual morbidity. |
| 0:19.7 | It's our belief that there's a lot of room for good and necessary work in this space, |
| 0:25.3 | for raising awareness of broader social issues. |
| 0:28.6 | For sensitive storytelling that can humanize the real people is the center of a mystery, |
| 0:33.8 | and even for asking hard questions about what's going on with a case. |
| 0:38.6 | But there's a dark side too. |
| 0:40.6 | We see plenty of troubling trends, especially around online misinformation and harassment, |
| 0:45.9 | certain cases attracting outsized media attention, and problematic or incomplete narratives |
| 0:51.4 | taking over. |
| 0:52.4 | There are also deeper questions at the heart of true crime. |
| 0:56.3 | Questions about coverage that can center perpetrators over victims. |
| 1:00.4 | Questions about the re-traumatization of survivors in victims' families. |
| 1:04.4 | Questions over the fear-mongering that the genre can entail. |
| 1:07.6 | Sarah Weinmann is an award-winning writer and editor who has tackled all those issues |
| 1:12.4 | and more in her career. |
| 1:14.2 | She covers both true crime and crime fiction with an eye for big picture questions. |
| 1:19.4 | She's published two great books on true crime cases, Scoundrel, the true story of the murderer |
| 1:25.0 | who charmed his way to fame and freedom, and the real Alita, a lost girl, an unthinkable |
| 1:31.6 | crime, and a scandalous masterpiece. |
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