Only Murders in the Building
Gomez
has been on a press tour to promote the show and it's been fun to watch her
talk about her personal experience at one of our events. While we love hearing Selena’s rave reviews about her CrimeCon experience, it’s important to note that Selena and her mother attended our
CrowdSolve event in Chicago, not our annual
CrimeCon convention. If you’re a true crime fan (or a Selena Gomez fan) here to learn more about CrimeCon, read on to understand the key differences.
CrimeCon vs. CrowdSolve
CrimeCon is a large, weekend-long annual event in a traditional “convention” format with an exhibit hall, podcast row and multiple programming tracks and speakers broken up into approximately one-hour time slots. Attendees learn about a wide range of topics like forensics and investigative techniques while also getting an in-depth looks at cases, enjoying meet & greets with guests and experts, and attending live podcast and YouTube recordings and demonstrations. Read more about the CrimeCon format and watch some past session clips.
Conversely, when Selena attended CrowdSolve, she and her mother joined hundreds of other attendees who came together to help make a difference in one cold case. At CrowdSolve, Selena had access to the full, unredacted case file of an open case out of Ohio. In teams, our CrowdSolvers reviewed interview transcripts, witness statements, crime scene photos, and autopsy reports. Each team spoke with the victim’s family members and the original investigators and had a crash course in several investigative concepts they used to examine the facts of the case.
We loved having Selena and her mom with us at CrowdSolve; they focused, took notes, helped their team, and really leaned in to help a grieving family get answers. While Selena joked with Seth Meyers that the event ended without "cracking the case," the truth is that the leads and ideas generated that weekend have fueled the department working the case as well as overall interest in it from the community and local media.
While we currently do not currently have future dates planned for CrowdSolve, we very much hope that Selena, Mandy and all the true crime fans out there (Martin Short and Steve Martin, that includes you, too!) join us for our next annual CrimeCon convention, April 29-May 1 in Las Vegas!
Want to know more? Read a recap of CrimeCon 2021 here and check out over 175 hours of CrimeCon session video at crimeHQ.com!