In the midst of true crime’s boom, when people have hundreds of articles, prestigious TV shows, and shoddily reported podcasts to choose from to get their crime fix, Sarah Weinman’s new collection aims to cut through the noise. In the new book Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession, author and reporter Weinman brings together over a dozen of the best true crime stories in the past decade or so from writers like Rachel Monroe, Pamela Colloff, and Michelle Dean.
, talking about what was going on with what I would characterize as the “true crime boom.” I wanted a collection that best represented the text pieces that were coming out of the so-called boom, which I date to when the first season ofand the possibility that Adnan Syed didn’t do it, became such a cultural phenomenon and an audience that didn’t think of itself as a true crime audience was really responding to it.
Talking through this stuff with sources, which is something I had to sort of learn as I went, I just feel like it [creates] better reporting and more empathetic reporting. I want to be clear that I was also, when I was younger, a devotee of crime message boards. I know these communities and the desire to be part of something greater. But I also think it comes back to respecting the boundaries of victims and giving them the space to essentially tell you what happened and how they’re dealing.
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