I'm pretty sure this is recency bias. Remember the TV show "The pretender"? (1996-2000). It was fairly formulaic and every single episode ended up with Jarod, t

I'm pretty sure this is recency bias. Remember the TV show "The pretender"? (1996-2000). It was fairly formulaic and every single episode ended up with Jarod, the protagonist, finding out the bad guy and putting him in a convoluted setup of psychological torture (usually threatening their life or their family in the same way they had killed the innocent person) until they admitted the crime.