Episode 9 - "Blood, Sweat & Fears" with Dr. Amanda Vicary (Illinois Wesleyan U.)

Staircase spills, ODing on pills, or getting terminally ill. There are a thousand ways to die out there. But the public doesn't pay much attention to the way most of us meet our end unless it gets turned into a Netflix docuseries about how a beloved neighbor was caught burying the body. So we asked true crime expert Dr. Amanda Vicary to break out the CSI black lights and help us understand our obsession with stabbings and strangulation.

Dr. Amanda Vicary is the Chair of the Psychology Department at Illinois Wesleyan University. She teaches courses on crime and the justice system, gender, and social psychology, in addition to researching topics related to the criminal justice system. She has written for The Atlantic, appeared on NPR multiple times to discuss her work, and been featured as an expert by Investigation Discovery.

Here's some homework for you nerds who love to read:
https://blog.pacific-content.com/meta-analyzing-podcast-lists-cf8c67197c77
https://www.derby.ac.uk/magazine/issue-11/why-are-we-so-obsessed-with-true-crime/
https://www.wuwm.com/2023-01-20/the-double-edged-sword-of-true-crime-stories-popularity-a-uwm-professor-explains
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/26/us/officer-defends-giving-boy-back-to-dahmer.html
https://abc7chicago.com/idaho-murders-killings-internet-sleuths-theories/12698491/
https://abcnews.go.com/US/suffers-online-sleuths-turn-true-crime-entertainment/story?id=99869383
https://www.davispoliticalreview.com/article/internet-sleuths-and-their-impacts
https://whatculture.com/offbeat/8-crimes-that-were-solved-by-the-internet
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/06/20/true-crime-podcasts-are-popular-in-the-us-particularly-among-women-and-those-with-less-formal-education/

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