40 True Crime Fans Who Aren’t Afraid To Say What Everyone Else Is Thinking

True crime fans aren’t as smart and intuitive as they think they are and have a totally unearned sense of arrogance from just being documentary watchers alone.

I work in documentary and have done true crime specifically. A lot of information is held back by LE and even gentle editing is by nature manipulative.

True crime fans are like, “You can tell just by looking at him in that photograph something is wrong with him.”

No, we’ve set you up to think that. By merely implying someone is tied to a crime in any way, your brain colors in the lines and tells you their eyes look empty. Doesn’t help that we put spooky music over their picture while we slowly zoom in on the image.

Conversely, take the same photo of a person but put different music over it and imply he’s a homicide victim, and the same true crime fan will be like, “Aw he looked so sweet 🥺”

And, look. I say this as a true crime fan.

But no one should be speaking so authoritatively , so gatekeeper-y, on anything just because of some documentary watching. Even the most well meaning and neutral documentary is biased.

Casey Anthony is guilty.

A polygraph is barely more reliable than flipping a coin and while some presenters are getting better at pointing out that they are not acceptable as evidence in a courtroom, they are still talked about too much which I feel gives them a false sense of reliability.

Unpopular opinion? Gipsy Rose is not the golden child she's been elevated to be. She's a liar and manipulator and was basically in on the scam the whole time. Yes, she's a product of her environment but the whole 'blame Nick' thing she's doing is lies.

I still believe Elisa Lam was having some kind of psychotic break and got into that water tank herself and drowned.

A lot of the mysterious disappearances aren’t mysterious. When people disappear in the wilderness, it isn’t a mystery. They’re often victims of unfortunate hiking accidents. Bodies aren’t easy to find so many of these people will never be found.

Social media groups “discussing” active investigations do more harm than good.

Madeline McCann's parents would have gone to jail if they weren't rich and white.

Eileen Wuormos didn’t deserve [it], she should’ve been sent to a mental institution for the rest of her days.

MoonlitStar:

The main thing I didn't get about her case is that she was so obviously mentally ill to the point of insanity- even a person without any professinal knowledge of mental health could blatantly see that- it wasn't something that was up for discussion to my mind so why wasn't she treated as such. The entire case was sensationalised beyond belief by the media it was akin to death according to the media circus and public opinion in the US. It's still sensationalised to this day over 20 years since.

I agree she should have been placed in a secure mental health facility for life rather than what happened to her.

Cops/detectives/police forces are often corrupt and [bad] at their jobs and mess up a lot of investigations through incompetence.

Capital punishment should be abolished. Contrary to popular belief, it isn’t a deterrent to crime, and it costs more than it does to keep an inmate incarcerated for their entire life.

theloons:

Agree. It’s barbaric and evil. Whether it’s a deterrent or not doesn’t matter to me. I agree that it isn’t, but even if it were it wouldn’t change my stance on it.

The jury in the Casey Anthony case failed Kaylee Anthony. In my opinion, I believe they did in fact have enough evidence. That little girl never got justice.

There should have been more repercussions for the social workers who failed Gabriel Fernandez.

I try not to think about the fact that his two get to wake up every morning and see sunlight. Injustice.

Munchkinpea:

I couldn't agree more. I'm fairly desensitised to true crime stuff, but I found the Netflix documentary about Gabriel devastating. I had to keep taking breaks as I was crying so hard.

I feel sorry for his teacher who seems to have tried repeatedly to get him help, but not received any support.

He should have remained with his great-uncles who loved and cared for him, like parents are supposed to do.

Not unpopular bur black and brown victims of homicide especially women are left unsolved because the police and public don’t care.

Brock Turner should have gotten years in prison. Disgusting.

Lacey Fletcher was not on the couch for 12 years.

Humanehuman1:

Right?? Like there has to be more to this! Also, I feel like this case is almost downplayed (for lack of a better word). She literally LIVED for a significant period of time with MAGGOTS eating her flesh. I feel nauseous even writing that out.

Sethsears:

I have some gross personal insight into this.

My 90+ year old grandmother developed lymphoma directly on the top of her head. She saw a doctor and received treatment for it, but as she was getting treated, it began to rot. She couldn't simply have it removed in surgery due to its size and her age. She (and everyone around her) had to endure the tumor "dropping off" of her. (At least, that's how I remember it going, I was a kid at the time).

The smell was unbelievable. I can't even tell you. The smell of flesh rotting off a living person is so strong that when we took her to the library to pick up a book, we had to roll all the windows in the car down and stick our heads out each respective window to keep from gagging. That was from a golf ball sized tumor! I can't even imagine the smell around Lacey's couch. Even if you accept her parents were mentally ill/in denial/noseblind, I have no idea how the smell wouldn't have clung to them.

Scott Peterson is guilty.

ComteStGermain:

I agree, although I think that in his case circumstancial evidence alone works for me. The timeline alone and the fact that he went "fishing" on Christmas Eve was enough for me.

A lot of cases that didn’t get solved was due to inexperienced investigators (JonBenet), cops on the take (Keddie Cabin), or lazy police work (Kristin Smart).

Lots of corruption and oppression in law enforcement and the courts. There are far more innocent people than we realize who are incarcerated.

Not every [victim] was the bestest best friend, your best friend, a really great person a better person than everyone else, etc.