Whether or not you have a vested interest in the Public Safety profession, you have probably found yourself, at one point or another, engrossed by a particularly-lurid episode of Dateline or delighted by the edge-of-your-seat excitement in Netflix miniseries like Making a Murderer or When They See Us. This current trend of movies, television series, and podcasts based around real-life murderers and convictions has been dubbed the true crime boom. In CrimeReadss True Crime Advice column, author Tori Telfer explores this recent rash of programming that focuses on the darker sides of our society. Read Is the True Crime Boom a Real Thing?Links to an external site., and then respond to the questions below to weigh in on the benefits and drawbacks of this deathly obsession. (Note: You do not need to read the authors response to the following question about JonBenét Ramsey.)
