How true crime became “victim-centred”

The last decade has witnessed the remorseless rise and mainstreaming of a genre once considered the subcultural property of troubled suburban adolescents and bored housewives with overdeveloped macabre streaks.

The rise of the whodunnit, or did-they-do-it, industry has been accompanied by a mushrooming of serial-killer content, from two -bit podcasts to big-budget Netflix documentaries and dramas.

CrimeCon Glasgow was the first of its kind to be hosted in the city, following a few years of thriving London events.

More than three quarters of regular true crime podcast consumers are interested, or very interested, in consuming “victim-centred” content.

Many sincere, genuinely innovative offerings like Hallie Rubenhold’s 2019 book The Five outlined the long-ignored lives of Jack the Ripper's victims.