The Best of Reason: True Crime Distorts the Truth About Crime
Popular podcasts and shows portray crime as salacious and sexy, failing ordinary victims in the process.

This week's featured article is "True Crime Distorts the Truth About Crime" by Kat Rosenfield.
This audio was generated using AI trained on the voice of Katherine Mangu-Ward.
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So does classifying black offenders as "white"
We have an interesting way of calculating crime statistics in North Carolina, Whites and Hispanics aren’t combined, which is fairly unique, and leads to interesting results.
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Well duh, black people don't commit crimes
The unpossible can’t happen.
Seems like Reason is having a Moral Panic attack. True Crime has been a thing in the media since there was a media
Just because it's now in podcast form doesn't mean they are a moral danger
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Hang your head and cry
You killed poor Laurie Foster
And you know you're bound to die
You left her by the roadside
Where you begged to be excused
You left her by the roadside
Then you hid her clothes and shoes
Hang your head, Tom Dooley
Hang your head and cry
You killed poor Laurie Foster
And you know you're bound to die
You took her on the hillside
For to make her your wife
You took her on the hillside
And there you took her life
You dug the grave four feet long
And you dug it three feet deep
You rolled the cold clay over her
And tromped it with your feet
Hang your head, Tom Dooley
Hang your head and cry
You killed poor Laurie Foster
And you know you're bound to die
"Trouble, oh it's trouble
A-rollin' through my breast
As long as I'm a-livin', boys
They ain't a-gonna let me rest
I know they're gonna hang me
Tomorrow I'll be dead
Though I never even harmed a hair
On poor little Laurie's head."
Hang your head, Tom Dooley
Hang your head and cry
You killed poor Laurie Foster
And you know you're bound to die
"In this world and one more
Then reckon where I'll be
If is wasn't for Sheriff Grayson
I'd be in Tennessee
You can take down my old violin
And play it all you please
For at this time tomorrow, boys
It'll be of no use to me"
Hang your head, Tom Dooley
Hang your head and cry;
You killed poor Laurie Foster
And you know you're bound to die
"At this time tomorrow
Where do you reckon I'll be?
Away down yonder in the holler
Hangin' on a white oak tree
Hang your head, Tom Dooley
Hang your head and cry
You killed poor Laurie Foster
And you know you're bound to die
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