In the wake of Serial and HBO’s The Jinx, Netflix’s true crime series Making a Murderer was the definition of a sure bet. Debuting less than two weeks ago, Netflix’s enormous audience devoured it and is already expressing articulate outrage about the events it depicts — the wrongful arrest and trial of Steven Avery for the 2005 murder of Teresa Halbach. If you’ve been on Twitter at all the past couple weeks, I’m not telling you anything you don’t know. Ken Kratz, former district attorney of Calumet County,…
The problem with treating true crime villains like fictional villains
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