The Issue With Murder as Entertainment

True-crime content is often problematic and exploitative

Ellen Eastwood
ILLUMINATION
Published in
6 min readApr 5, 2022

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Trigger Warning: While this article isn’t graphic, it does broach the topics of murder and violence, as well as the development of true-crime stories.

I was returning from an evening with friends in my sleepy hometown. There was a shortcut through a lighted area that cut the…

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Ellen Eastwood
ILLUMINATION

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