There was a time when some who were big fans of true crime weren't all that comfortable telling others. A trip to the true crime section of a bookstore, with all its black and red covered paperbacks, could feel awkward—as if anyone who saw you there might assume you were up to no good.
That's changed in a huge way. True crime is cool now. Thanks to the mass appeal of the Serial podcast, people who once whispered in embarrassment about their fascination with a big murder case in the news are now happily live-tweeting watching Netflix docs like Making a Murderer or the remarkable HBO doc about killer millionaire Robert Durst, The Jinx.
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