Crime-Obsessed Broads: An Interview With Rachel Monroe

Criminal Broads

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True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Why do women love true crime? Wait, no—why do people love true crime? Author Rachel Monroe comes on the podcast to deconstruct our appetite for horrifying true stories. Also covered: relating to the Manson girls, why true crime is not the same as a bowl of oatmeal, the ethics of crime scene photos, and the murky side of the victim's rights movement. Check out Rachel’s new book, Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsessiontoday! Want more #content? 1) Subscribe to the new podcast I’m hosting, Why Women Kill, from CBS All Access. 2) Come see me + the host of DIE-ALOGUE talk about female cult leaders in NYC on October 30. Tickets here! *** SUPPORT THE PODCAST! Become a Patreon supporter and get a cool postcard. Get a free month of courses at The Great Courses Plus at thegreatcoursesplus.com/broads. Check out Harlequin Suspense’s new line of creepy fall books at bit.ly/mustreadsuspense.*** Sources: Interview with Rachel Monroe: August 28, 2019Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession, by Rachel MonroeRachel’s con-man article in the Atlantic: “The Perfect Man Who Wasn’t,” April 2018 issueThe article about serial rapists we discuss: “An Epidemic of Disbelief,” by Barbara Bradley Hagerty, The Atlantic, August 2019 issue Music: “Guilty” by Richard A. Whiting, Harry Akst, and Gus Kahn, sung by Anna Telfer“Can You Tame Wild Wimmen?” by Billy Murray, licensed under a Public Domain / Sound Recording Common Law Protection License“Shake It and Break It” by Lanin's Southern Serenaders, licensed under a Public Domain / Sound Recording Common Law Protection License Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Is it a sin? A crime loving you dear like I do?
0:10.0	If it's a crime, then I'm guilty guilty of love in you.
0:19.0	Hello hello!
0:20.0	Welcome to episode 34 of Criminal Brods, a true crime podcast about, I don't
0:25.0	even have time to tell you what the podcast is about, if you don't know, you don't know, I just
0:29.0	have so much information to tell you during this introduction and I've got to get started on it.
0:34.0	Okay. First of all today's episode is a bit of a departure from our usual one
0:39.6	story about one woman format. It is an interview. Now this episode is kind of a
0:45.6	meta episode. I've got the amazing author Rachel Monroe on the podcast to
0:50.6	discuss true crime, why we like true crime, if it's okay to like true crime, and also
0:55.5	four different stories of women who are connected in thrilling and unusual ways to this little
1:02.0	thing called True Crime.
1:04.0	Ever heard of it?
1:04.9	So you're getting four mini stories
1:07.1	for the price of one, plus a lot of observations
1:11.8	and anecdotes from a very intelligent woman who spends a lot of time thinking about this whole genre that we're all obsessed with already.
1:18.0	I'm pretty sure many of you will have already encountered Rachel's work. Do you remember that story in the Atlantic last year
1:26.1	about the con man whose female victims came together to take him down, Rachel wrote it.
1:32.9	It's amazing, I'm going to link to it in the show notes.
1:36.0	And now she has a new book that's hot off the press.
1:39.4	It's called Savage Appetites
1:41.3	for True Stories of Women, crime, and obsession.
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