Guest: Our obsession with true crime

In television, now more than ever, crime pays.

A search for "true crime" on Netflix produced 300 titles. Nearly half of Apple's top 20 podcasts in the U.S. are devoted to true crime, and the internet is chockablock with recommendations for the best new true crime books.

As I type this, Paramount+ is announcing that Dennis Quaid will play the real-life serial killer notoriously called "Happy Face,"...