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Welcome everyone! I am Dr. Kaci O’Donnell, the professor for this course. I am so excited to work with students on this project and to spend a semester rhetorically analyzing true crime. I am confident that these students will create a fun and interactive blog that can reach the ever-growing population of true crime fans! Please subscribe below, and also follow the UTA Department of English on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook @utaenglish for featured stories about the department, university, and our students!
A Very Fatal Murder: An Abundance of ‘Very’
By Hayden Gnat and Isabelle Odeh The true crime genre proudly represents true tales of crime that give a glimpse into real stories, however The Onion’s “A Very Fatal Murder” is all about comedy and satire and less about the truth. In the course of seven episodes, totaling roughly an hour and fifteen minutes, The…
Read More A Very Fatal Murder: An Abundance of ‘Very’PODCAST: LIGHTS OUT
Colorado native hosts Josh and Joel take us to Episode 9 of their podcast. The in depth coverage of the massacre that particularly have family who attended that high school and have family ties with Columbine. In the beginning of the podcast, they describe the feeling they got being there for the first time and…
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Below are just some of the thousands of Tiktoks made about Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie, ranging from web sleuthing to updates to videos reacting to her parent’s heartbreaking tears. Credit in order of videos: @bridgettematter, @meffqueech, @red.white.and.bethune, @ttdramanews, and @danielle_c_mclean documentary to watch 2020 on abc has covered the case and it is available…
Read More watch and read with usAmerican Vandal: More than red cherry’s
“Period after emojis? That’s, like, serial killer weird.” Sam Ecklund- season 2 Throughout the course of the series, one thing that is pretty apparently different from your usual true crime documentary on Netflix is the amount of unfiltered language used throughout the show. From the first moment of the show, the word “dick” alone is…
Read More American Vandal: More than red cherry’sGabby Petito: Missing While White
The case we will be diving into is the that of Gabby Petito and the nation-wide search for her leading up to finding her body and the subsequent manhunt for Brian Laundrie. He is found dead almost a month later. Gabby’s case is not only an example of domestic violence and violence against women, but…
Read More Gabby Petito: Missing While WhiteConfronting: The Kim Goldman Show
Written by: Emma Lin, Naia Williams, and Elyn Porter The podcast Confronting: OJ Simpson presents itself as an outlet for Kim Goldman, sister to victim Ron Goldman, to gain closure about her brother’s death and the failure of prosecution to bring justice to “The Killer” who is known to many people as O.J. Simpson. Hosted…
Read More Confronting: The Kim Goldman ShowThe case of oj simpson: law without order
Written by Ahlam Atallah and Cheyenne Smith The documentary OJ: Made in America directed by Ezra Edelman undertakes a massive case and tragic story of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman by the acquitted OJ Simpson, set in a backdrop of racial turmoil and with the added challenges of the media involvement due to…
Read More The case of oj simpson: law without orderThe People v. O.J. Simpson: Giving Life to an Old Story
Written by Emily, Erin, and Harleigh “The People v O.J. Simpson”, a FX dramatization on Netflix giving their version of the famous O.J. trial that so many people have heard about. As a dramatization the directors and producers have creative freedom when choosing actors, which scenes to depict, and how to depict them. This freedom…
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In the dark: Racial Bias in the case of curtis flowers
Season two of In the Dark focuses on the case of Curtis Flowers, a black man who was accused of murdering four people in a Mississippi furniture store in 1996. In the opening episode of this podcast, the audience learns that in the years following the accusations made against him, Curtis Flowers had been sent…
Read More In the dark: Racial Bias in the case of curtis flowersBeyond the Surface of Ice: Untold Crimes and Penalties
By Noreen Flores, Zach Wright, and Josh Kennedy “There were a lot of things that went on, and I can still look at myself in the mirror everyday and I don’t have a problem” – James Galante Boxing on the ice? Ever heard of it? Yeah, neither have we. Keep your eyes glued to the…
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