My original essay “Death by Folklore” was written soon after the 1982 murders of teenagers Annette Cooper and Todd Schultz in an area of Southeastern Ohio plagued by rumors of Satanic cults. I argued that the killings and the local reaction to them could be understood as acts of ostension, possibly criminal acts or, more likely, acts of interpreting ambiguous events in terms of familiar legends about Satanism. Since then, the original defendant has been exonerated, and a convict has confessed to being the actual murderer, which he says was the result of an unmeditated impulse with no folklore relevance. So, was my article irrelevant to the crime? The essay surveys new information uncovered through investigative journalism and criminal justi...
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This article considers forensic anthropologists’ roles in negotiating the concept of criminality in ...
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This article investigates the contemporary fascination with true crime narratives, an subject which ...
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The film Heavenly Creatures, fictionalised the murder of Honora Parker by her daughter and her frien...
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The commission of criminal wrongs is occasionally revealed after the (suspected) wrongdoer’s death. ...