“Women make up the majority of the readers of true crime books and the listeners of true crime podcasts,” she notes in the opening pages of Savage Appetites: True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession (Scribner).
Monroe noticed something else-of the two thousand or so in attendance, there was only “a smattering of men.” There were sessions on profiling, cold cases, and the latest forensic techniques, a booth set up to make selfies look like a mug shot, and T-shirts declaring I’M JUST HERE TO ESTABLISH AN ALIBI. Writer and self-confessed true crime junkie Rachel Monroe traveled from Texas to Nashville in 2018 to attend the second CrimeCon convention.
