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Idaho killings: When the world’s obsession with true crime meets a mother’s grief

By Mike Baker
New York Times·
8 mins to read

Less than a year after losing her son in a murder that captivated the true crime community, Stacy Chapin spent three days navigating CrimeCon.

Stacy Chapin walked into a conference ballroom at the annual CrimeCon gathering in Orlando and let out a gasp. Nearly 3,000 people were packed inside, all to hear a college professor from Alabama conduct a “forensic analysis” of how Chapin’s son and three of his college friends had been brutally killed in Idaho last year.

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