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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Alaina Demopoulos

This serial killer exhibit made me want to hurl - has our true crime obsession gone too far?

A person looks at an exhibit about a serial killer
After my tour of Mind of a Serial Killer: The Experience in New York, it wasn’t the gore that grossed me out but rather that the exhibit exists at all. Photograph: Courtesy Fever

It occurred to me the second I idly tapped “submit” on the waiver required to enter Mind of a Serial Killer: the Experience – perhaps I should have read this one more closely. Just what were they going to do to me in there?

I was entering an exhibit about the (mostly) men who committed some of history’s most gruesome murders: Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ed Gein, John Wayne Gacy and others. The extravaganza just hit New York after opening in Dublin earlier this year. Though it looks like a low-budget haunted house, the exhibit purports to examine the motives of murder via crime scene recreations, wall texts and psychological profiles.

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