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LONDON - The tragic case of a British woman’s disappearance and death has shone a disturbing light on the rise of so-called online sleuths and amateur detectives who believe they can do the police’s job.– apparently vanishing “into thin air”, leaving her phone on a bench still dialled into a work call – the initial news coverage was low-key.
But with officers and other specialist divers initially failing to find her body, the online true crime world quickly became awash with speculation about what might have happened to her, to the distress of her family. “People are trying to become more invested in these cases, becoming these amateur sleuths and trying to investigate and provide different takes and lenses on the crime,” he told AFP.The amateur interest has spawned from the true crime phenomenon of the past decade that included the 2014 podcast Serial and the 2015 documentary series Making A Murderer about wrongful convictions, according to Prof Schmid.
Much true crime output had dealt with their subjects sensitively and ethically by avoiding the temptation to sensationalise, Prof Schmid said. “We’re all one traumatic event away from the worst day of your life being reduced to your neighbour’s favourite binge show,” commented Mr Eric Perry, a relative of Mr Errol Lindsey, one of Dahmer’s victims.The involvement of amateurs – aided by new technology, online databases and operating outside mainstream media norms – has also raised concerns about the potential destruction of evidence and harm caused to people wrongly highlighted as suspects.
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