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Topic: True Crime Podcast

Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark speak onstage during the 2025 iHeartPodcast Awards on March 10, 2025 in Austin, Texas. (Astrida Valigorsky/Getty Images)

"My Favorite Murder," a girl-power trap

Andi Zeisler
An illustration from the penny dreadful "Varney the Vampire or the Feast of Blood" (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Penny dreadfuls, ancestor of true crime

Leslie McMurtry, Adam Fowler - The Conversation