to not understand the "entertainment value" of true crime

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I understand the enjoyment of murder mysteries, excitement, interesting characters, mystery aspect etc.

I dont understand the "enjoyment" of "true crime" where real people have suffered and died and been bereaved. The thread about Jonbenet for example, why are people enjoying "documentaries" and feeling they can speak authoritvly about the death a poor little girl, thousands of miles away about which they in reality know nothing, but feel like they can slag of members of her family anyway?

Ive just gone onto itv player to find something to while away a few hours, and find myself being offer a whole plethera of "true crime" stuff. No thanks, what on earth is fun or relaxing being a spectator to other people's grief, pain and misery?

I just dont understand what sort of person enjoys that. I hope you will enjoy it just as much if you are ever the subject of one of these dramas.

Yep, and in fact some podcasts are the only reason families have been able to get the attention that closes a case or draws interest where the police have failed and / or been negligent. Often where women are the victims and it’s just been swept umder the carpet.

There’s quite a few but Marion Barter (The Lady Vanishes). Lyn Dawson (The Teacher’s Pet) and Kristin Smart (Your Own Backyard.)

Some of these have had the result of improving the situation for other victims and their families or future victims.

I think there is a difference in watching and switching off and overinvesting like the people who write and marry serial killers and wear t-shirts 'save him' to campaign

Even in here people over invest in other people's dramas and lives

You mean like this thread posted by the OP?

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Hi 👋 Op

There was a true life murder case in America, in which the wrong man was wrong convicted, essentially cause of his skin colour,

I seen a news article about this, He was in prison for 20 + years,

A Documentary about this case went on to Netfix or another media outlet,

And a Astute Journalist, who was very inquisitive, helped to re open the case as he could see how flawed the case was,

The Author of this true life murder case was called. Funny Bones , or those lovely bones something like that,

Very quirky Title of the name of the book..

There was a book on it,

Does Anybody know proper name of this book and Author out there on Mumsnet ?

Are you thinking of the Alice Sebold case?

It's not a murder case but the person accused and convicted of it has been released after being exonerated.
I can't remember a documentary about it, but it's quite possible one has been made.

The case was a rape case. Alice Sebold was an 18 year old student at the time. She then went on to be an author and wrote a book called "The lovely bones" which is about a murder and a memoir about the attack and it's aftermath called "Lucky".