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“The Nation’s Obsession with True Crime Meets a Mother’s Grief,” NYT, 2023
“The Dark Origins of the True Crime Frenzy at Crime Con,” Vanity Fair, 2024
“The Long American History of ‘Missing White Woman Syndrome’,” The New Yorker, 2021
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