True Crime Podcasts
Dr. Death
59 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 84K ratingsWe’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
50 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 67.7K ratingsSerial is a podcast from Serial Productions, a New York Times company, hosted by Sarah Koenig. Serial unfolds one story - a true story - over the course of a whole season. The show follows the plot...
Cold
72 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 38.6K ratingsCold is a narrative podcast series focused on missing persons cases. Investigative journalist and host Dave Cawley takes on a single story with each season. Season 1 tells of the unsolved d...
True Crime Obsessed
352 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 25.1K ratingsThe 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...
Dateline NBC
406 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 20.7K ratingsCurrent and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations.
Your Own Backyard
11 episodes - Latest episode: 17 days ago - ★★★★★ - 16.3K ratingsA documentary podcast series investigating the 1996 disappearance of Cal Poly student, Kristin Smart.
Red Ball
10 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★★ - 16.3K ratingsFrom 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...
Man In The Window: The Golden State Killer
28 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 13.5K ratingsIn 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.
15 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 13.2K ratingsFootball 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...
Mystery and Murder: Analysis by Dr. Phil
135 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★ - 9.2K ratingsDr. Phil McGraw takes an in-depth look at true crime cases, mysteries and provides his in-depth analysis.
Limetown
22 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★ - 8.2K ratingsTen 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 ...
Detective Trapp
24 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 8.1K ratingsAnaheim 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...
Monstruo
60 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★ - 7.9K ratingsThe 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, ...
Accused
39 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★ - 6.7K ratingsSeason 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...
Small Town Dicks
137 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 6.5K ratingsSmall Town Dicks is a podcast about the big-time crime that’s happening in Small Town, USA. Each episode features the detectives who broke the case in their small town, and includes assets like jai...
Southern Fried True Crime
151 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 6.4K ratingsErica Kelley is a native Tennessean exploring historical and contemporary true crime in the South. Southern charm is attempted but southern sass is bountiful. Join her as she shows you just how sou...
Do No Harm
16 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 6.4K ratingsMelissa Bright thinks she's living every parent's worst nightmare when her five-month-old baby tumbles from a lawn chair and hits his head on the driveway. But after she rushes him to the h...
Truth & Justice with Bob Ruff
567 episodes - Latest episode: about 5 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 6.2K ratingsTruth & Justice is a true crowdsourced investigation in real time. Host, Bob Ruff, asks listeners to help with investigations as he takes on a new potential wrongful conviction case every ...
Historical Figures
128 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 4.8K ratingsBig Lives. Little-known Facts. Great, unknown stories hide inside history—every other Wednesday, we dig up what you don't know about the icons you do know. Hosts Carter and Vanessa bring history to...
Murder Book
29 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 4.8K ratingsSam Little, the FBI’s most prolific serial killer roamed free for five decades, murdering women at will. But in 2012 he came to the attention of Detective Mitzi Roberts and everything changed. Thi...
Mommy Doomsday
17 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 4K ratingsThe disappearance of two of Lori Vallow’s children in Rexburg, Idaho in September 2019 would expose a bizarre trail of death, devotion and Doomsday beliefs that captivated the nation… A haunting po...
Cult Liter with Spencer Henry
149 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratingsCult Liter Podcast Host Spencer Henry brings the spooky every Monday. Each week we'll dive into a new story. Macabre history, true crime, and all things bizarre.
Tom Brown's Body
12 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratingsIn 2016, a popular high school senior mysteriously disappeared on the night before Thanksgiving. His remains were found two years later. What happened to Tom Brown in the small town of Canadian, Te...
Canadian True Crime
110 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 3.4K ratingsStories of some of the most heinous, controversial, heartbreaking and thought-provoking true crime cases, told by an Australian living in Canada. New episodes on the 1st and 15th of each month.
Martinis & Murder
387 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★ - 3.1K ratingsThe true crime podcast that you've been looking for! Hosts Daryn Carp and John Thrasher chat about creepy crimes and mysterious murders while Matt the Bartender mixes up martinis! From new ...
Kingpins
175 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2.9K ratingsUndeniable power. Unbelievable stories. Unlikely origins. Kingpins follows the rise and fall of rulers of the underworld. Every Friday, we examine the leaders of organized crime rings, and how mone...
The Black Dahlia Serial Killers
93 episodes - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★ - 2.9K ratingsHollywood and Crime is a ground-breaking true crime series about the most infamous murders in Tinseltown history. In The Black Dahlia Serial Killers, host Tracy Pattin investigates the sen...
Already Gone
177 episodes - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2.8K ratingsWhat would the world be like if victims and families were given an empathic, insightful voice in their search for answers? Host Nina Innsted exposes lost crimes, digging beneath the media and back...
Dead and Gone
16 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2.8K ratingsIn 1985, two Grateful Dead fans were brutally murdered. For the last three decades, rumors have circled around the Dead community that the wrong man was put in prison for it. One of the most iconic...
Missing
414 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★ - 2.7K ratingsFor 5 years we've covered Maura Murray's disappearance and the tireless community that surrounds it in great detail. We have since expanded with this series by raising awareness for the stories of ...
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