It's hard to know what to do with houses that have born witness to sensational crimes. Knocking them down seems like a futile attempt at repression, as if bulldozing a building could erase what happened there. Leave them up, though, and they risk becoming tourist attractions, drawing the kind of gawkers who cruise by slowly, looking at something banal--a high school gym, a brick apartment building, a two-story house in the suburbs--and picturing something horrible.
Rachael Moore, Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession, 2019
Rachael Moore, Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession, 2019
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