Netflix was roundly criticized after it released the trailer in January for its upcoming Ted Bundy biopic, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile, which has Zac Efron playing the infamous serial killer. At the time, critics feared the true crime thriller would only romanticize the rapist and murderer .

But this phenomenon isnt just happening on-screen.

Notorious killers have long attracted certain women, and the phenomenon continues to this day. Look at all the love letters Chris Watts, the Colorado man who admitted to killing his wife and daughters, has received in prison.