December 13, 2014

"To you listeners, its another murder mystery, crime drama, another episode of CSI."

"You weren't there to see your mom crying every night, having a heartattck when she got the new that the body was found, and going to court almost everyday for a year seeing your mom weeping,crying and fainting. You don't know what we went through. Especially to those who are demanding our family response and having a meetup... you guys are disgusting. SHame on you. I pray that you don't have to go through what we went through and have your story blasted to 5mil listeners."

From "I am Hae's brother - Do not AMA."

Via "Serial nears its end, but the Reddit detectives keep working/Podcast’s runaway success has inspired online commenters to carry out their own investigations – a phenomenon which at last seems to have been acknowledged by the show."

4 comments:

Unknown said...

This whole business is fascinating, and has kind of strange reverberations for writers of fiction. I need time to figure out what this all means -- and will mean in the future.

Sydney said...

This is truly strange. Before social media, all of this speculation and gossip would happen about sensational stories, but it was restricted to small circles of people. The targets of the talk would never be aware of it unless someone in their own circle said something to them. Now they have access to what everyone is saying, even people they don't know. It's a little too much. Becoming a hermit looks better every day.

John henry said...

I'm not a robot.

Don't need to prove it

Sent from my kindle

John henry

mccullough said...

True crime genre has been around for awhile. I can understand the feelings of the victim's family.

Interestingly Mark Fuhrman's book Murder in Greenwich led to the arrest of the killer.