By Rachel Maidl
Jayden Varline, a PhD student and research assistant in the Criminal Justice & Criminology department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, was always inquisitive. As a teenager, she stumbled across news coverage of the Casey Anthony trial and shows like “Criminal Minds.” It was her introduction to criminology and piqued her curiosity about how humans operate.
“I think sometimes we engage in a little too much of the sensationalized pop culture true crime,” Varline said. “But it really drew me to the topic from a young age.”