Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession by Rachel Monroe
Women are undeniably a large part of the true crime community. Many observers of the true crime community try to boil down the reason women are intrigued by these violent stories into one simple explanation. But this is reductive and in no way can capture all of the nuances of reasons women find themselves on late night reddit forums. Journalist and author Rachel Monroe instead proposes four broader archetypes—Detective, Victim, Defender, Killer—that most female true crime fans fall into (though there is often a blend of more than one). Monroe then shares the story of four different women who exemplify these categories: Frances Glessner Lee who crafted intricately designed dollhouse-style crime scene dioramas to help train crime scene investigators, Alisa Statman who oddly inserted herself into the lives of the Tate family after Manson acolytes brutally murdered Sharon Tate and her friends, Lorri Davis who fell in love with one of the wrongfully convicted "West Memphis Th...
