I do wonder if the proliferation of True Crime podcasts is, possibly, down to shadowy funding of some sort.

I don't listen to them anymore myself, not because they're not gripping, because a lot of them really are, but because it effectively turns victims of horrible crimes into profitable entertainment, and I don't want to be a party to that.

(I wish I was smart enough I'd come to that conclusion myself, but no - it was other podcasts and an episode of Black Mirror that pointed that out to me)