I’m A Female Who’s Obsessed With Murder

How It All Began

I don’t talk about true crime extensively on this blog, but I’d like to. It’s an important topic that can honestly say a lot more about the audience and fanbase than the crimes and criminals themselves. And I think this post about why I take interest in this unsavory topic in the first place is a good way to open the door for future conversation.

My knowledge and odd in-depth fascination with serial killers, child abductions, and cult mass suicides are enough to raise eyebrows in most of my social circles. I also would venture to say that the fact that I’m a female obsessed with these psychotic (mostly women-targeting) murderous men is weird and seems ill-fitted to most people.

This concept of women liking true crime, however, is not uncommon. A majority of true crime consumers happen to be women. But there are certainly different strains of true crime fandom.

• You could be a Dateline viewer who enjoys the thrill of the dramatizations and the intense narrator’s voice giving the play-by-play.
• Maybe you enjoy documentaries like the Ted Bundy Tapes on Netflix.
• Maybe you like hearing actual recordings of criminals explaining what they did to someone in horrifically vivid detail.
• Or maybe you dabble in…