Serial killer doco everyoneâs talking about Netflixâs new true crime hit looks at New Yorkâs most terrifying year â and one manâs obsession with a deranged killer.
TV by Candace Sutton 12th May 2021 6:16 PM It was the summer of 1976, around 1.10am on July 29, when two young women were sitting in a car in Pelham Bay, a neighbourhood of the Bronx, in the northern part of New York City. Jody Valenti, 19, and Donna Lauria, 18, a nursing and a medical student, were sitting in Ms Valenti s Oldsmobile in front of Ms Lauria s home, discussing the holidays and their futures.
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David Berkowitz was arrested in New York on August 10, 1977. Photo / AP
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By: Candace Sutton
It was the summer of 1976, around 1.10am on July 29, when two young women were sitting in a car in Pelham Bay, a neighbourhood of the Bronx, in the northern part of New York City.
Jody Valenti, 19, and Donna Lauria, 18, a nursing and a medical student, were sitting in Valenti s Oldsmobile in front of Lauria s home, discussing the holidays and their futures.
Lauria s parents had just arrived home after an evening out, inviting Valenti upstairs before they went inside.
Serial killer doco everyoneâs talking about Netflixâs new true crime hit looks at New Yorkâs most terrifying year â and one manâs obsession with a deranged killer.
TV by Candace Sutton 12th May 2021 6:16 PM It was the summer of 1976, around 1.10am on July 29, when two young women were sitting in a car in Pelham Bay, a neighbourhood of the Bronx, in the northern part of New York City. Jody Valenti, 19, and Donna Lauria, 18, a nursing and a medical student, were sitting in Ms Valenti s Oldsmobile in front of Ms Lauria s home, discussing the holidays and their futures.
In the Dark and
Atlanta Monster, there’s no shortage of true crime podcasts. The genre is so huge that Netflix whose offerings in this arena include
The Staircase, and many more even created a parody true crime series (
American Vandal). Which raises the question: Why are we so obsessed with true crime? Here’s what the experts have to say.
1. Because being obsessed with true crime is normal (to a point).
First things first: There’s nothing weird about being true crime obsessed. “It says that we re normal and we re healthy,” Dr. Michael Mantell, former chief psychologist of the San Diego Police Department, told NPR in 2009. “I think our interest in crime serves a number of different healthy psychological purposes.” Of course, there are limits: “If all you do is read about crime and . all you do is talk about it and you have posters of it, and you have newspaper article clippings in your desk drawer, I d be concerned,” he said.