“Live, Laugh, Luminol”

FQ columnist Laurie Ouellette reports on her visit to CrimeCon, a convention that connects predominantly white female fans with content producers, entrepreneurs, victim advocates, and law enforcers. Unpacking the unsettling amalgamation of everyday violence and trauma, crime-solving, female-centric storytelling, and feminized fan culture on display at the event, she theorizes true crime fandom as an intimate public that the burgeoning true crime industry and its carceral partners claim as their own.