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How Serial turned listeners into armchair investigators
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Armchair detectives evolved from passive listeners into an unregulated, crowdsourced legal defense team. When Sarah Koenig released her 2014 investigative series, Reddit users obsessively scrubbed decades-old architectural blueprints and cellular tower data, fundamentally transforming the true crime genre from a spooky campfire story into an interactive, real-world exoneration machine.
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