'Heroic' True Crime Sleuths Helped Identify Hiker Years After His Gruesome Death
Huff PostLOADING ERROR LOADING This is an excerpt from our true crime newsletter, Suspicious Circumstances, which sends the biggest unsolved mysteries, white-collar scandals and captivating cases straight to your inbox every week. A true crime filmmaker said she was inspired by the “heroic” efforts of online sleuths who spent years trying to identify a hiker after his emaciated corpse was found alone in the woods. The “true crime community” is overwhelmingly female — and I think, like a lot of things women gravitate to — that somehow makes it easier to dismiss. There’s an attitude that “true crime girlies” are somehow lacking in empathy — that they’re morbid, intellectually lame, shallow, or — paraphrasing something our protagonist Christie once said to me — “fat sad old ladies with nothing better to do.” Christie Harris moderates a Facebook group that helped identify the man featured in "Mostly Harmless." I think the true crime audience, by and large, feels that too — and despite what others may think — their engagement with “true crime” is an exercise in empathy.
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