Decades before true crime crept in from the margins and inundated pop culture, I found a humble paperback buried in the stacks of my parents’ bookshelf about America’s most notorious serial killers.
Though I was already aware that terrible things happened in general, this was different: specific, personal and intimately chilling.
This shift was reflected to some degree in July when a man was arrested in the Gilgo Beach serial killings.
This is the first in a series of streaming lists about true crime films, shows and podcasts.
Here are picks across television, documentary and podcast that offer more than the usual glorification of madness.
Persons:
Ed Gein, John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy