Pop culture’s obsession with serial killers is only growing -- what does this say about us as a society? Tori and Karina do a deep dive into Hollywood’s obsession with serial killers and their stories. Featuring insight from David Schmid, Ph.D., author of “Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture” and Kathy Kleiner, a survivor of Ted Bundy.

Show Notes

To Read

Natural Born Celebrities by David Schmid

“The Guys Who Shoot to Thrill: Serial Killers and the American Popular Unconscious” by Robert Conrath

Revue Française D'études Américaines, no. 60, 1994, pp. 143–152.

“The compulsion of real/reel serial killers and vampires: Toward a gothic criminology” by Caroline Joan S. Picart and Cecil Greek

“Why is Ted Bundy Suddenly Everywhere?” by Tori Telfer

To Listen

“For the Defense”: David Oscar Markus

“Crime Salad”

“Fruit Loops”

To Watch

Fry Day (2017)

The 93 Victims of Samuel Little (2020)

Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes (2019)

Santé Kimes Documentary (2001)

My Friend Dahmer (2017)

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)

Zodiac (2007)

Monster (2003)

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)

Bones (TV Series 2005-2017)