#64 - Blood Money - Part 1: One Bloody Thing After Another
Hard Knox with Amanda Knox
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On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
In 1827, Thomas DeQuincy wrote a still quite hilarious satire of the true crime fandom of his day. The essay is called On Murder Considered as one of the fine arts. It presents a fictional lecture given at a social club of murder aficionados. There's the moral concerns, but beyond that, some crimes and some killers are simply fascinating.
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