True Crime Main Characters

Amanda Knox has written a memoir. And another memoir. And made a documentary. And another documentary. And a fictionalized adaptation of her life story. And she has a podcast. And now she's written a one-woman-show for Fringe. All while the family of the young woman who was murdered begs her to stop.

The true crime industry gives a lot of young women the opportunity to endlessly create content about the one bad thing that happened to them. Or, near them? Because some of these women, like the BTK Killer's daughter, or now the granddaughter of Charles Manson, have monetized proximity to bad people while the survivors and the families of victims beg for privacy.

Jessa and Nico look at the main character syndrome of true crime, and how certain women have built empires out of suffering and death.

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