You might call it a hobby
Or a morbid obsession
Its patronage ageless
Its allure like confession
What makes a person
Find such things appealing
Why outlaws and murder
What is it revealing?
The study and research
Of the worst of our drives
Of the outcast and wicked
The taker of lives
Has long fascinated
Our civilization
We cannot turn away
From this grim aberration
But what has us searching
May be reassuring
Could knowing the motive
Stop the harm from occurring?
Though the wretched be damned
For all eyes to see
We should still seek to fathom
Why they cause misery
So us true crime devotees
Analyze the unhinged
Sharing our findings
From the lunatic fringe
We seek to find answers
Through clues we will comb
As if we're the modern day
Ace, Sherlock Holmes!
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