It’s Idaho, 2022. Four college students are murdered in their home after a night out. It’s Indiana, 2014. Two kids go for a walk in the woods and disappear. It’s Italy, 2007. An American girl named Amanda Knox goes to study abroad and almost never comes home.
What happens when a crime becomes a viral sensation? Kyleigh McPeek and Grace Carroll team up to investigate how modern true crime media has forever altered three killings. Working with journalists, lawyers, creators, fans and victims, they set out to discover how the meteoric rise of the true crime podcast might be insidiously changing our culture, our legal system, and even our conception of truth itself.
“A Timeline of the Night of the Idaho Murders,” NYT, 2022
“Police rule out Idaho professor,” NBC News, 2022
“Criminology Student Is Charged in 4 University of Idaho Killings,” NYT, 2022
“The Moscow murders,” Vox, Today: Explained, 2022
“How the Delphi, Indiana, murders became ‘true crime’,” Vox, 2023
“Where is the knife?” Reddit post
“Man accused of leaking evidence in Delphi murders,” FOX 59, 2024
“Blood Money — Pt. 1,” Labyrinths with Amanda Knox, 2023
“Italian Jury Convicts US Student of Murder,” NYT, 2009
“Timeline: Meredith Kercher murder case,” CNN, 2016
“Amanda Knox defends moment she was seen kissing boyfriend,” Daily Mail, 2013
“Amanda Knox acquitted of 2007 murder,” NYT, 2015
“Italy must pay damages to Amanda Knox in 2007 case,” NYT, 2019
artwork: alexandre p. manko