media appearances / interviews / public talks
media appearances
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
“Doppelgangers: Face to Face,” dir. Deborah Wainwright, 2023
BBC Radio 4 screenshot
“Doppelgangers,” April 11, 2025. My guest appearance starts at 4:10.
TMZ Presents
“Tragically Viral,” October 10, 2023
Al Jazeera’s The stream
“Seeing Double: Why Are We So Fascinated With Doppelgangers?” July 5, 2023
ABC News Impact x Nightline
“The King Road Murders,” S1 E30, Hulu, June 8, 2023
Times Radio UK
interviewed by Daryl Morris on the topic of true crime and TikTok, January 14, 2023.
walk me through podcast
“Walk Me Through True Crime,” December 2, 2022. My interview starts at 29:00.
wprb princeton
“Twins” episode, February 25, 2022. My interview starts at 28:50.
The cw: Mysteries decoded podcast
“Bigfoot” episode, June 28, 2022
interviews
the new york times
“‘If I Go Missing’ Folders for the (Very Unlikely) Possibility That You Do,” August 19, 2023
BBC
“Why We’re ‘Living in the Golden Age of the Doppelganger,” December 4, 2024
“Mistrial for Karen Read, US Woman Accused of Boyfriend’s Murder,” July 1, 2024
CNN
“Menendez Brothers’ Former Neighbor Says Public Fascination is ‘Chaotic,’” November 27, 2024
rolling stone
“How Gabby Pettito’s Death Changed TikTok’s True-Crime Community,” February 17, 2025
“The Smiley Face Killers Conspiracy Theory Died Down. Then Came TikTok.” May 21, 2023.
“TikTok’s True Crime Community is Turning on Idaho Murder Survivors,” January 11, 2023.
The Washington Post
“True Crime Fans Seized on the Idaho Killings. Their Accusations Derailed Lives.” April 2, 2023
“Casey Anthony and the Rise of the True-Crime Celebrity,” December 17, 2022.
ABC News
“Who Suffers When Online Sleuths Turn True Crime Into Entertainment?” June 8, 2023
NBC News
“Convicted Scammer Anna Sorokin Releases Song For Podcast While Under House Arrest,” July 13, 2023
USA Today
dazed magazine
“In an Age of Digital Doppelgangers, We’re No Longer Running From Our Double,” April 14, 2025
**Watch this clip on the Dazed TikTok account
Time Magazine
“33 True Crime Documentaries That Shaped the Genre,” September 11, 2024
The Independent
“True Crime is America’s Guilty Pleasure,” August 11, 2022.
HowStuffworks.com
“FBI Files Provide Chilling Look Into the Mind of Jeffrey Dahmer,” October 11, 2022.
dot.la
ITV: planet Woo
“The psychological benefits of watching true crime,” October 4, 2022.
CSUF News
“‘The Haunting Within’: Professor Explores the Duplicity of Doppelgängers,” November 4, 2022
“True Crime and Pop Culture: A Professor Discovers Connections,” June 27, 2022.
The Orange County Register
Public talks
UC Santa Cruz Festival of Monsters
“Seeking Doubles: Doppelgängers and the Digital Uncanny,” October 2023
osher lifelong learning institute, CSUF
“The History and Ethics of True Crime,” April 4, 2023
Penn State Center for American Literary Studies
"SERIAL, Podcasting, and True Crime’s Golden Age,” January 2023. My presentation starts at 14:00.