Speaking of Murder - Media Autopsies of Famous Crime Cases
Channel: Bonnie Bucqueroux
Date: 2012-03-04

Author Bonnie Bucqueroux discusses Volume One of the continuing series Speaking of Murder. The book offers a new contribution to the true-crime genre, the media autopsy. This book explores three famous crime cases:
The Fatty Arbuckle case, where the silent film star was tried and convicted in the press but found not guilty after three trials. THe Kitty Genovese case where 38 witnesses heard her scream for the half hour it took for her assailant to kill her, yet they did nothing. The third case explores Truman Capote's invention of the non-fiction novel to tell us about the murder of the Clutter family of Kansas