True crime is “content about violent, nonfictional events that have specific characteristics that make it popular as entertainment” (“The True Crime Genre Is Popular, but Is It Ethical?”). This definition lays out the groundwork for this essay. The name true crime is misleading, as the vast majority of true crime is about one specific crime, murder (Healy), specifically serial murders, which are fan favorites (Wiltenburg, Sci Guys). Serial murder is defined as the “unlawful homicide of at least two people carried out by the same person (or persons) in separate events occurring at different…