“True crime” has become a hugely popular entertainment genre over the last few years thanks to hit documentary series and podcasts such as Serial, Netflix’s Making a Murderer and more recently The Teacher’s Pet in Australia. The best-known shows revisit unsolved or contested murder cases and challenge potentially wrongful convictions, leaving audiences outraged at apparent injustices and desperate to know what actually happened.
How true crime shows are impacting the justice system
Daniel Thomas 