I don’t know about anyone else, but there is nothing I would rather do than curl up on a rainy day and watch some true crime. Lately, I have been enjoying hearing endlessly about obscure murders and awful occurrences that happen to others and thankfully not me. I know that it is a little unusual and True Crime is not everybody’s jam, but seriously, it’s amazing. My new favorite podcast is called My Favorite Murder where two amazing women dive into the details of mysterious murders while adding a bit of dark comedy to the mix.
In my opinion, when it starts to become a problem is when we start memorializing these horrible people who committed gruesome things, rather than remembering the victims who had to suffer at the hands of these people. Recently Netflix released an in-depth documentary about Ted Bundy and his justification for his killings. I’m not going to lie, the documentary was mesmerizing and terribly interesting, but the whole time I couldn’t shake the thought, ‘Why should anybody care about this man’s opinion!?’ He took it upon himself to kill upwards of 30 women and now is being memorialized further by sharing his inner thoughts and justifications. All this creates is a mindset in our society that a method of becoming famous is by continuously trying to outdo the last horrible crime before you. This man was evil and ruined the lives of all of these women’s families, yet now gets to live forever in all our memories. Furthermore, his image is being hypersexualized all over the internet and it seems that people are forgetting just what he’s known for.
Instead of thinking about how hot this serial killer is or why he might have developed his psychotic personality disorder, we should focus on the women and all the bright futures that he destroyed. People who are good looking are not inherently good people. People who are good looking don’t deserve recognition and infamy just for their looks. We, as a society, need to remember what it means to be a good person and why serial killers do not deserve Netflix documentaries.
HCXOXO
Jamie Tremblay