![]() ![]() ![]() They weave a narrative that keeps you hooked and often leave you to speculate as to the truth – even if that means skewing some details to fit the narrative. The stories in these shows and podcasts are evocative, they’re tense and exciting. You could argue that Sarah Keonig’s podcast Serial and Netflix’s Making a Murder documentary series from 2015 were a starting point for a lot of people getting into the genre, and it’s easy to see why. True crime has become a leading form of entertainment, mostly thanks to the huge popularity of true crime documentaries and podcasts. To try and understand why armchair detectives have become so prevalent and such a nuisance to official investigations, you just have to look back over the past ten years or so. Reddit received heavy scrutiny after the real culprits were found, and warnings were made about this kind of thing happening again, however it proved far from the last such incident. ![]() Sunil’s death was ultimately ruled as a suicide. Sunil’s family had been hounded by the public and the press. In fact, he had been reported missing by his family one month prior to the bombing, and on the 23 rd of April 2013 his body was found in the Seekonk River – four days after the actual perpetrators of the attack were found and an arrest made.Īfter the arrest, posts about Tripathi disappeared, but the damage was already done. One individual named was Sunil Tripathi, a 22-year-old student. A subreddit named r/FindBostonBomber was quickly set up, and it was soon inundated with photos and video clips from users who thought they had spotted potential suspects. In the immediate aftermath of the bombing, a manhunt began – both officially by the FBI, and unofficially online. On this occasion, the amateur investigator HQ was Reddit. One of the most well-known incidents (up until the Bulley disappearance) of internet sleuths interfering and getting it very, very wrong was what happened after the Boston Marathon Bombing in 2013. There had to be more to it, right? According to the armchair detectives, yes, there had to be much more to it.Īrmchair detectives are nothing new of course, and with the increase of social media use, true crime popularity and camera phones, it’s becoming easier and easier to become way too involved in real crime cases. ![]() My social media feeds were quickly inundated with posts about the disappearance, and how people just weren’t buying the police’s theory. Unfortunately for the police – and more importantly Nicola’s family – the armchair detectives of TikTok and beyond decided that wasn’t a good enough explanation, and so valiantly took it upon themselves to investigate further… much further. The police quickly released their hypothesis that Nicola may have fallen into the river, and that they didn’t believe any foul play was involved. She seemed to have vanished out of thin air. As the circumstances around her disappearance were considered unusual, it was understandably an intriguing story. News outlets had it running as one of their main stories for weeks. If you’re in the UK I’d be surprised if you hadn’t heard about the missing person case of Nicola Bulley, a 45 year old woman who seemingly vanished while walking her dog along the river Wyre in Lancashire on the 27 th of January 2023. ![]()
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