EP 889 A True Crime Case Which Shows the Hold the Genre Has on Americans

In 2019, the quiet suburb of New Canaan, Connecticut was shocked by the disappearance of Jennifer Dulos, a mother of five who vanished one morning after dropping her kids off to school.  In 2020, her husband Fotis Dulos–with whom she was locked in a contentious divorce–and Fotis’s lover, Michelle Troconis, were charged with Jennifer’s murder, despite the fact that to this day Jennifer Dulos’s body has never been found.  There has been a fascination with the events and facts in the Dulos case and it has spread across a growing empire of true crime media–articles, books, podcasts, TV shows and on social media.  The fact that this story is part of the growing interest in the ‘missing white women syndrome’ in a town of great affluence and that the husband killed himself rather than going to prison, adds to the fascination with the case.  Rich Cohen puts us in the center of what happened in his new book, “Murder in the Dollhouse: The Jennifer Dulos Story,” as he successfully attempts to paint a complete picture of the victim.  We also discuss the reasons for the wild success of true crime reporting across so many genres.

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