Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession Audiobook (Free)

A provocative and original analysis of our cultural desire for crime, linking 4 archetypes—Detective, Victim, Defender, Killer—to four true stories about ladies driven by obsession.

In this illuminating exploration of females, violence, and obsession, Rachel Monroe interrogates the selling point of true criminal offense through four narratives of fixation. In the 1940s, a frustrated heiress began creating dollhouse criminal offense scenes depicting murders, suicides, and unintentional deaths. Referred to as the “Mom about Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Females, Crime, and Obsession of Forensic Technology,” she revolutionized the field of what was then called legal medicine. In the aftermath from the Manson Family murders, a woman transferred into Sharon Tate’s guesthouse and, over the next 2 decades, entwined herself using the Tate family. In the mid-nineties, a landscape architect in Brooklyn fell in love with a convicted murderer, the supposed ringleader from the Western world Memphis Three, through an intense group of letters. After they married, she committed her life to getting him free of loss of life row. And in 2015, an adolescent deeply involved in the on the web fandom for the Columbine killers planned a mass capturing of her own.

Each female, Monroe argues, represents and recognizes with a particular archetype that provides an entryway into accurate criminal offense. Through these four situations, she traces the annals of American crime through the growth of forensic research, the evolving role of victims, the Satanic Anxiety, the rise of on-line detectives, as well as the long shadow of the Columbine capturing. In a combination of personal narrative, reportage, and a sociological study of violence and press in the twentieth and twenty-first century, Savage Appetites scrupulously explores empathy, justice, as well as the persistent appeal of violence.