More than one-third, 34%, of Americans who listened to a podcast in the past year say they regularly listen to podcasts about true crime.
Shanda Gimson's bedtime routine starts out pretty ordinarily: She turns off the lights and gets comfortable in bed. But before shutting her eyes, she picks up her phone and presses play on her favorite true crime podcast. Soon enough, she knows, she'll be fast sleep.
True crime's appeal to women isn't new, says David Schmid, an assistant professor of English at the University at Buffalo. Schmid studies pop culture and crime in the media. Watching a TV show or listening to a podcast also allows women to"handle this fear in a way they can control," Schmid says. "My research shows that women like true crime because they can learn something from it," she says."They can learn how not to be killed, essentially. They like true content where they learn the signs to watch for in a killer or they learn what to do if kidnapped. By learning how people end up the victim, they can keep it from happening to themselves."
Eventually, her live-in partner, Tokelo Mogorosi, started to listen in on the episodes, too."They'll open the platform for a dialogue about it," he says."Yeah, exactly," Mogorosi says."It makes for a good conversation and also kind of keeps our relationship in health and intact — until she decides to murder me, but we'll never know when that's gonna be.""It makes you a lot more aware," says Ivanicka.
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