Kaleb Kammerer Mrs. Ray Honors English 1 24 September 2024. The Effects of True Crime Have you ever heard of the effects of crime? Crime has many impacts and effects on people that could be life-changing. In “The Bully” Podcast, “Entwined”, and “Why Are We Obsessed with True Crime?” You can see these examples. In “The Bully” Podcast they talk about how a man named Ken McElroy affected many people in the town where they were scared to do anything about his crimes. “Even though he was bigger than everyone else, Ken McElroy figured out pretty early that the easiest way to control someone is to scare them” (Crime Scenes). Ken was able to control almost everyone in the town and would scare many people. “A lot of these witnesses over the years …show more content…
And that’s how he got out of a lot of cases” (Crime Scenes). McElroy would wait outside peoples houses and shoot his gun to scare them and many witnesses because of this did not do anything about it because they were scared. Crime is something that is very scary that many people are uncomfortable with and that is why Ken McElroy was able to basically run the town. In the story “Entwined”, it shows how one man's death can have many effects on other people. “My driver’s license expired when I was twenty-one; I did not renew it, nor have I ever driven a car again after that day I killed Professor G” (Tobin). After the narrator accidentally killed a professor while driving, he could not forget it and he never drove again as a result. “Relationships never seemed to survive the moment I had to confess to the accident” (Tobin). The narrator could never get a relationship because everyone who he dated could not live with the fact that he killed someone. Even though the crime was an accident, it still affected everybody the exact same. In “Why Are We Obsessed with True Crime?” it shows how many people enjoy watching true crime as a form of entertainment, but they do not notice the effects it may have on them mentally. “One reason