Category: true crime
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Sleep, Child
Rusty Yates: “Is anyone hurt?” Andrea Yates: “Yes. The children. All of them.” Tonight my son falls asleep on my arm and it goes numb under his head. I can’t feel the down of his hair, which is growing wiry and curly now that the strands are coming through his bald scalp. Getting older on…
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Chalk Outlines
Around one a.m., after the third time I’ve woken from restless dreams, I stare at the ceiling and think “I am done with true crime shows.” Normally, I know that I’ve hit my quota of true crime when I start mentally narrating my day in the True Crime Voice. That morning started like any other,…
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At Least I’m Not a Serial Killer: A Podcast and a Poem
On Wednesday I had the chance to sit down with my buddies Holly and Carley, the hosts of We’re All Fine–a podcast in which they chat about all kinds of life affirming things, personal struggles, and basically whatever comes into their minds to chat about. It’s delightful. And we got together to talk about that…
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Life Imitating Art Imitating Life
When I was seventeen, my boyfriend and I wanted to go see a movie. (I know, shocker.) It had already made it through the “main” theaters and was now at the dollar theater, which—before this night—had never carded me and I’d already seen a couple R-rated films there. But, apparently, someone somewhere had gotten in…
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3 Points of View in True Crime Documentaries: Criminal, Victim, Detective
I.The criminal, serial killer Danny Rolling, is introduced as a child. Here are his parents—see how poorly they handled him. See how his father disciplined him. See how his father, so strict, a cop, had him arrested. See how his father told him he was never wanted. One morning a boy wakes up and shoots…