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A young woman is killed violently.
A man is charged with her murder, even though he insists he is innocent.
What true crime series have I just described?
Is itThe Staircase?Making a Murderer?
The first season ofSerial?
Satires likeAmerican VandalandTrial & Errorhave already highlighted the cliches of this subgenre.
But all four of those alleged killers contended they were not responsible for the womens deaths.
Like Dassey, Ward and Fontenot say they were coerced in to recording in false confessions.
At a certain point, I even found myself laughing at some of the details.
One of the initial suspects is named Odell Titsworth?
True crime is called true because the details in it are real.
We should feel the weight of that every time we watch a show like this.
