TY - JOUR AU - Gemzøe, Lynge Stegger PY - 2021/01/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The Kim Wall Murder Serialized: Ethics & Aesthetics in High-Profile True Crime JF - Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives JA - SERIES VL - 7 IS - 1 SE - Productions / Markets / Strategies DO - 10.6092/issn.2421-454X/12483 UR - https://series.unibo.it/article/view/12483 SP - AB - This article investigates the dramaturgical, aesthetical and ethical implications of making television on the back of a high-profile, internationally appealing and very recent murder case: the Kim Wall murder. During a trip in his self-made submarine, Peter Madsen, a known amateur space rocket and submarine builder, abused and murdered Kim Wall, a young Swedish journalist, who was supposed to do an interview with him. Less than three years later, a range of true crime productions had been made about the case, and this article analyses three of them. Preliminary findings suggest that meta-communication is highly important in high-profile true crime productions such as these, and that creators have to walk a thin line. ER -