"In this illuminating exploration \;of \;women\, violence\, and obsession\, Rachel Monroe interrogates the a ppeal \;of \;true \;crime \;through \;four \;narra tives \;of \;fixation. In the 1940s\, a bored heiress began creati ng dollhouse \;crime \;scenes depicting murders\, suicides\, and a ccidental deaths. Known as the "Mother \;of \;Forensic Science\," she revolutionized the field \;of \;what was then called legal med icine. In the aftermath \;of \;the Manson Family murders\, a young woman moved into Sharon Tate's guesthouse and\, over the next two decades \, entwined herself with the Tate family. In the mid-nineties\, a landscap e architect in Brooklyn fell in love with a convicted murderer\, the suppo sed ringleader \;of \;the West Memphis Three\, through an intense series \;of \;letters. After they married\, she devoted her life t o getting him freed from death row. And in 2015\, a teenager deeply involv ed in the online fandom for the Columbine killers planned a mass shooting& nbsp\;of \;her own. A combination \;of \;personal narrative\, reportage\, and a sociological examination \;of \;violence and med ia in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries\, \;Savage \;appeti tes \;is a journey into obsession\, scrupulously exploring empathy\, j ustice and the persistent appeal \;of \;crime."
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