![]() ![]() Its podcast somehow didn’t kick off until 2019. It’s a no-brainer of an idea: Court TV, after all, helped hook Americans on true crime way back in the mid-’90s. The Court TV Podcast, for instance, follows high-profile cases with only a little lag time. Neither show invented the concept of a podcast reporting on a trial as it unfolds, of course. These two shows couldn’t be more different, but both are perfect marriages between content creator and subject, and each brings something fresh to the world of true crime. As the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, known associate of alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, got underway, the conspiracy-fluent hosts behind the Epstein-heavy TrueAnonpodcast headed to court to launch their own “gavel-to-gavel” coverage. ![]() Last week, this show found an unlikely companion. The trial of Elizabeth Holmes, disgraced former CEO of defunct fake-unicorn Theranos, started three months ago, and star reporter John Carreyrou has been doggedly covering it on his podcast, Bad Blood: The Final Chapter, ever since. A more tasteful, less intrusive direction for the next evolution of true crime, though, is courtroom podcasting, which applies the real-time urgency of Murder TikTok to a trial, rather than an ongoing investigation. Some of these armchair sleuths ended up helping police efforts, but others spread false narratives-and most were ghoulishly exploitive. Instead of offering deeply researched and responsibly reported recaps, a fleet of self-styled Sherlocks dabbled with red-yarn mania. Back in late September, as doomed influencer Gabby Petito’s disappearance launched a thousand private investigations, the national fascination with true crime seemed to implode. ![]()
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