When True Crime Hurts the Heart: Reflections on Covering Missing People and Domestic Violence Cases
There’s a quiet heaviness that comes with covering true crime and missing person cases. It’s not always immediate. Sometimes it’s a subtle ache that lingers in your chest after reading the facts, after hearing the stories of lives interrupted, stolen, or destroyed. And sometimes, when a case touches on domestic violence, abuse, or the murder of a parent, partner, or child, that ache can feel sharp, almost unbearable.