True Crime Podcasts

Crime Junkie

130 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 178K ratings
If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people.

My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

396 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 107K ratings
Lifelong fans of true crime stories Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark tell each other their favorite tales of murder and hear hometown crime stories from friends and fans.

Dr. Death

21 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 76.1K ratings
We’re at our most vulnerable when we go to our doctors. We trust the person at the other end of that scalpel. We trust the hospital. We trust the system. Christopher Duntsch was a neurosur...

Serial

36 episodes - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 58.1K ratings
Serial is a podcast from the creators of This American Life, hosted by Sarah Koenig. Serial unfolds one story - a true story - over the course of a whole season. The show follows the plot and chara...

Up and Vanished

110 episodes - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 48K ratings
Up and Vanished is an investigative true crime podcast hosted by Atlanta filmmaker Payne Lindsey. In Season 1, Payne tackles his first cold case story, the unsolved disappearance of Georgia high sc...

Small Town Murder

167 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 40.5K ratings
Two comedians look at a small town, what makes it tick, and a murder that took place there. In depth research, horrible tragedy, and the hosts' comedic spin on the whole thing. New episodes every T...

To Live and Die in LA

19 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 23.5K ratings
In Feb 2018, an aspiring actress vanished from her Hollywood apartment. Rolling Stone journalist Neil Strauss was asked to help the family get answers. Together, they found them...sometimes at grea...

Criminal

146 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 22.9K ratings
Criminal is a podcast about crime. Not so much the "if it bleeds, it leads," kind of crime. Something a little more complex. Stories of people who've done wrong, been wronged, and/or gotten...

Over My Dead Body

25 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 22.7K ratings
We all have limits. And some people who are pushed beyond those limits will do unspeakable things. In “Tally,” season One of OVER MY DEAD BODY, Dan and Wendi are two good-looking attorneys...

Atlanta Monster

25 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★ - 18.8K ratings
From the producers of Up and Vanished, Tenderfoot TV and HowStuffWorks present, 'Atlanta Monster.' This true crime podcast tells the story of one of the city’s darkest secrets, The Atlanta Child Mu...

Serial Killers

165 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 hour ago - ★★★★★ - 18.4K ratings
Every Monday and Thursday, Serial Killers takes a psychological and entertaining approach to provide a rare glimpse into the mind, methods and madness of the most notorious serial killers with the ...

Culpable

25 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 16.9K ratings
Culpable explores unsettled cases where the people who seem deserving of blame have somehow eluded justice. On February 26, 2014, Christian Andreacchio was found dead in the upstairs bathroom of hi...

True Crime Obsessed

185 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 14.9K ratings
The true crime / comedy podcast YOU NEED IN YOUR LIFE. We recap your favorite true crime documentaries with humor, sass, and heart. FROM VULTURE: "It’s not wrong to laugh when you’re listening to a...

Red Ball

9 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 12.8K ratings
From the creative minds behind Crime Junkie and with participation from the Indiana State Police, Ashley Flowers takes you alongside the reinvestigation into one of Indianapolis' most infamous unso...

Jensen and Holes: The Murder Squad

50 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 12.1K ratings
Retired Cold Case Investigator Paul Holes and Investigative Journalist Billy Jensen dig deep into unsolved murders, unidentified remains and missing persons cases. Each week listeners ride shotgun...

Man In The Window: The Golden State Killer

16 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 12K ratings
In Man in the Window, Paige St. John, a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter has uncovered never before revealed details about the man who would eventually become one of California...

Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc.

12 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 12K ratings
Football star Aaron Hernandez went from the bright lights of the Super Bowl to a convicted murderer in a few years. The Boston Globe’s Spotlight Team, best known for its investigation of th...

Mile Higher Podcast

207 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 10.4K ratings
Welcome to the Mile Higher Podcast hosted by husband and wife duo Josh Thomas and Kendall Rae! Our show focuses on True Crime but we delve into many other topics including conspiracy theories, unex...

Cults

166 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 10.1K ratings
Mystery. Manipulation. Murder. Cults are associated with all of these. But what really goes on inside a cult? More specifically, what goes on inside the minds of people who join cults and leaders w...

Unsolved Murders: True Crime Stories

214 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★ - 9.7K ratings
Unsolved Murders: True Crime Stories is a podcast drama with a modern twist on old time radio that delves into the mystery of true cold cases and unsolved murders. With the help of an ensemble cast...

White Lies

10 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratings
In 1965, Rev. James Reeb was murdered in Selma, Alabama. Three men were tried and acquitted, but no one was ever held to account. Fifty years later, two journalists from Alabama return to the city ...

Happy Face

16 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★ - 7.6K ratings
For Melissa Moore, 1995 was a nightmare. That’s the year the teenager learned her father, Keith Hunter Jesperson, was a serial killer. It’s also the year Melissa Moore’s doubt spiral began: When yo...

Monstruo

59 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★ - 7.5K ratings
The heart of a man is darkness... No person, place or culture is immune to extreme violence. The worst of the worst cases have occurred all over the world.  Be prepared to take a journey, ...

Limetown

21 episodes - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★ - 7.4K ratings
Ten years ago, over three hundred men, women and children disappeared from a small town in Tennessee, never to be heard from again. In this podcast, American Public Radio reporter Lia Haddock asks...

Wine & Crime

176 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 7.3K ratings
Wine & Crime is a true crime / comedy podcast. Join three friends as they chug wine, chat true crime, and unleash their worst Minnesotan accents!

Conspiracy Theories

127 episodes - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★ - 6.7K ratings
The truth is rarely the best story. And when it’s not the only story, the truth deserves another look. Every Wednesday, we tell the complicated stories behind the world’s most controversial events ...

A Mother’s Secret: The Lori Vallow Story | Mystery and Murder: Analysis by Dr. Phil

111 episodes - Latest episode: 13 days ago - ★★★★ - 6.6K ratings
Dr. Phil looks into the September 2019 disappearance of Tylee Ryan, 17, and 7-year-old brother, Joshua “JJ” Vallow, and what their mother, Lori Vallow and her new husband, Chad Daybell, might know...

Detective Trapp

9 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 6.6K ratings
Anaheim investigator Julissa Trapp is not like other detectives. She’s the only woman on the homicide squad, and a skilled chameleon: undercover cop in vice stings, crime-scene commander, p...

Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo

23 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 5.8K ratings
Where is Cleo? Taken by child welfare workers in the 1970’s and adopted in the U.S., the young Cree girl’s family believes she was raped and murdered while hitchhiking back home to Saskatchewan. CB...

Accused

34 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 5.5K ratings
Season 3: In 1984, a father of three disappeared while working at a mysterious Cincinnati plant. It turned out he’d met a gruesome fate: Pieces of bone, his eyeglasses and walkie-talkie wer...