Why do people watch true crime?

I love trying to solve the case before it's revealed, and I love the psychology of it.

I remember once in high school I walked by a car a truck actually on my way home from school and a man asked me for directions. When I got close to his truck he opened his door and got half way out. I stopped and backed away and told him I couldn't help him. I didn't know where the court house was anyway. I just knew it was down town. But my instincts kicked in. He wanted me to show him on a map. I think he should have went into a gas station and asked for directions or something. I was like 15.

Rarely. I like to learn how they lived their lives. How they were captured. The intricacies. The way they think. It is a way of living more safely. It is about how criminals are captured. My one grandmother used to read all the True Detective magazines. I remember as a child seeing them and sneaking peeks into them. Black and white crime photos. Certainly strange and oddly fascinating then.

I’m interested in those documentaries … Criminals minds are very complicated and that, from a psychological point of view, interest me …

Fans of cop shows. I like The Casual Criminalist pod cast, which is also on Youtube where I watch it. They focus more on the poor victims then the killer. (In other True crimes the victims are like a footnote 😒) And the narrator I think used to be a lawyer, since his reading it for the first time he gives his commentary an likes to skip the gruesome bits.

I do. Off and on.

Not just serial killers, but crime in general. It fascinates me more in the science and investigation.

And maybe it’s in some small part the knowledge that while women certainly also commit heinous crimes, it’s more often the men we’ve been, low-key or max, afraid of.

I can't take the ones with kids. But if they're NHI (no humans involved) they are darkly entertaining.

Especially when you have two meatheads living next door in a mindless feud

I prefer the money crime shows. I've seen some interesting ones.

I guess because it can happen to anyone. Like it could be the person next door. Intriguing and creepy

Since you asked this Q, I wonder how First 48 show works. How are cameras there right when a person dies? Who authorizes that?
I've seen some interesting cases there too.

With over 200 channels true crime was the best thing I could find to watch.

I don't like the horror genre, but I was very interested by [i]Mindhunter,[/i] a dramatization of an early FBI unit learning to identify and profile and catch serial killers. Apparently, serial killer wasn't really a law enforcement category and profiling wasn't a regular practice until the late 60's early 70's.

People love watching gruesome things because at the root of it they are finding clues to self preservation. Subconscious level.
Consciously they can dress it up with whatever narrative suits best to them.

It’s not the crime I like but the mystery of it and how criminals are caught. Many twists in in what actually happened makes it interesting. 🙂

I guess it's another level of horror movies. Some people don't like fiction, they need the real thing.

It teaches us to lock doors and windows and not to trust anyone you don’t know

I think that's only girlfriends, wives, and mom's that do that.

I don't. I find it depressing.

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