30 Criminally Slept On True Crime Podcasts
None of these are anywhere near the top of the charts, and most have a few hundred to a few thousand ratings on Apple. They made the list because the reporting holds up, and several of them won big journalism awards that most true crime fans never heard about.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONSomebody
iHeartPodcasts
Shapearl Wells investigates the 2016 death of her son Courtney, who was found dying outside a Chicago police station, and she records nearly every step herself.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONCanadian True Crime
Kristi Lee
Kristi Lee picks one Canadian case at a time and walks through it carefully, leaning on court records and keeping the focus on the people who were hurt.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONStolen
Spotify Studios
Connie Walker reports on violence against Indigenous people, including a season about her own father's years at a residential school in Saskatchewan.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONMost Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast
Blue Ewe Media
Erik Rivenes interviews historians and authors who wrote books about old crimes, so each episode feels like hearing the story from the person who did the digging.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONSuave
Futuro Media
Maria Hinojosa follows her friend David Luis 'Suave' Gonzalez, sentenced to life as a teenager, through his resentencing and first months out of prison.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONMurder Mile UK True Crime
Always True Crime
Michael Buchanan-Dunne covers murders from one small patch of London, Soho and the West End, and walks you through each case street by street.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONTrace
ABC Australia
ABC reporter Rachael Brown reopens the 1980 murder of Melbourne mother Maria James, and her reporting helped push the case back into a coroner's court.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONLady Killers with Lucy Worsley
BBC Radio 4
Historian Lucy Worsley revisits old trials of women, mostly murder cases, and asks with expert guests whether those women ever got a fair hearing.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONThe Kids of Rutherford County
Serial Productions & The New York Times
Meribah Knight reports on a Tennessee county that jailed children at unusual rates, including young kids arrested over a fight they had only watched on video.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONThe Trail Went Cold
Robin Warder
Robin Warder lays out one unsolved murder or disappearance per episode, then tells you plainly which theory he thinks fits the evidence best.
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BBC Radio 5 Live
Season one, Where Is George Gibney?, tracks the Irish Olympic swim coach accused of abusing children, who left for America and quietly built a new life there.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONThe Art of Crime
Gavin Whitehead
Gavin Whitehead tells stories where crime ran into the arts, from a Gilded Age fence to a libel fight over an insulting portrait, with new themes each season.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONThrough The Cracks
WAMU
Jonquilyn Hill looks into how 8-year-old Relisha Rudd disappeared from a D.C. homeless shelter in 2014 and wasn't reported missing for 18 days.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONGone Cold - Texas True Crime
TTC Productions
A weekly look at unsolved Texas homicides and disappearances, many decades old, often with updates when DNA finally names a victim or a suspect.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONLost in Larrimah
The Australian
In a Northern Territory town of about a dozen people, a local man and his dog vanished in 2017, and the feuding neighbors all seem to have a theory.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONBlack Girl Gone: A True Crime Podcast
Cloud10
Amara Cofer tells the stories of missing and murdered Black women and girls whose cases got little news coverage, keeping their families at the center.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONUnfinished
SiriusXM
Season one revisits the 1954 lynching of Isadore Banks in Arkansas, and season two moves to the polygamist town of Short Creek on the Arizona-Utah border.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONMens Rea: A true crime podcast
GoLoud
Sinead McHugh covers notorious Irish and UK crimes and stays with them through the trial, which is where a lot of crime shows lose interest.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONPhoebe's Fall
The Age and Sydney Morning Herald
The Age reexamines how Phoebe Handsjuk ended up dead at the bottom of a Melbourne apartment building's garbage chute, and why her death was ruled an accident.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONForensic Tales
Rockefeller Audio
Courtney Fretwell, who has a master's in forensic psychology, explains how investigators actually cracked each case, from DNA work to old-fashioned fingerprint matching.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONVishal
BBC Studios
The half-brother of Vishal Mehrotra, an 8-year-old who vanished in London on the day of the 1981 royal wedding, teams with a reporter to reopen the case.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONAustralian True Crime
Bravecasting
Meshel Laurie sits down with journalists and investigators who know Australian cases firsthand, covering a lot of crimes that rarely reach American listeners.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONMotive
WBEZ Chicago
Each season WBEZ takes on a different corner of crime and punishment in Illinois, from the white supremacist movement to life inside small prison towns.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONTrue Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
Richard O Jones retells old crimes using newspaper coverage from the time, so you hear how reporters in the 1890s actually wrote about the Borden case and others.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONLast Seen
WBUR
WBUR and the Boston Globe start with the 1990 Gardner Museum art theft, then later seasons take on other cases, including body parts stolen from Harvard's morgue.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONThe Perfect Scam
AARP
AARP's weekly show where scam victims tell their own stories, and Bob Sullivan explains how the con worked so you can spot it next time.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONDeath in Ice Valley
BBC World Service
A BBC and NRK team tries to identify a woman found burned in a valley near Bergen in 1970, with listeners sending in leads along the way.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONLines of Enquiry
GoLoud
A former Garda detective walks through notorious Irish murders and disappearances, explaining how the evidence came together, or didn't, from the inside.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONWrong Skin
The Age and Sydney Morning Herald
In 1994 a young couple in a remote Kimberley community dated against traditional law, then one died and one disappeared, and The Age goes looking for answers.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONFor the Innocent
Legal Talk Network
Innocence lawyer Michael Semanchik talks with exonerees about how they ended up wrongly convicted and what it took to finally get out.
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