Casey Anthony and the rise of the true-crime celebrity

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The Casey Anthony docuseries is the latest show about infamous people such as Jeffrey Dahmer and Elizabeth Holmes that has people asking: Who deserves a platform?

was posted of someone believed to be Anthony onstage during a Steel Panther concert, which some commenters pointed out would contradict Anthony’s claims from the documentary that she is afraid of leaving her home.

Criminal suspects and crimes have always captured public interest, but Adam Golub, professor of American studies at California State University at Fullerton, says our current “age of true crime on demand” has seen notoriety and celebrity increasingly intertwined. “I think [the docuseries is] a clear attempt to try to remix Casey Anthony into the culture.

Dean takes issue with the position that the voices behind true-crime stories don’t need to be shared. She said she was “surprised a few members of the press have decided to join the mob insisting Casey and I both stay silent. I did not see that coming. I expect critics to disagree with the artistic choices in my documentaries, but press calling for less freedom of press, less freedom of speech. That startled me.

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