15 Podcasts Like Serial
Serial got a lot of people hooked on following one reporter through a single story over many episodes. These shows work the same way, and most of them have finished seasons you can binge from start to end.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONS-Town
Serial Productions
Brian Reed goes to rural Alabama to check out a murder tip from a clockmaker named John B. McLemore, and it turns into a portrait of John himself.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONIn The Dark
The New Yorker
Madeleine Baran's team spends a whole season on one case, including Curtis Flowers, who was tried six times for the same Mississippi murders.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONUp and Vanished
Tenderfoot TV
Payne Lindsey started out as an amateur digging into the disappearance of Georgia teacher Tara Grinstead, and his reporting helped shake the cold case loose.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONDirty John
LA Times Studios
LA Times reporter Christopher Goffard tells how a charming man claiming to be a doctor pulled a wealthy Orange County woman and her family into danger.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONUndisclosed: Toward Justice
Undisclosed
Three lawyers went back through Adnan Syed's case after Serial ended, then took the same document-heavy approach to other possible wrongful convictions.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONBear Brook
NHPR
Jason Moon untangles a New Hampshire cold case about bodies found in barrels, which leads into genetic genealogy and a serial killer.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONDr. Death
Audible
Laura Beil reports on doctors who harmed patients, starting with a Dallas neurosurgeon whose botched surgeries continued while hospitals looked away.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONSomeone Knows Something
CBC
Filmmaker David Ridgen goes back to the towns where cold cases happened and knocks on doors, starting with a boy who vanished in Ontario in 1972.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONCrimetown
Gimlet
Each season covers organized crime in one American city, starting with Providence, Rhode Island and its mob-connected mayor Buddy Cianci.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONThe Dropout
ABC News
Rebecca Jarvis traces how Elizabeth Holmes built Theranos around a blood-testing machine that didn't work, using interviews with former employees and investors.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONThe Trojan Horse Affair
Serial Productions & The New York Times
Brian Reed and Hamza Syed investigate the anonymous letter behind a 2014 Birmingham schools scandal, and they argue on air about how to report it.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONBelieved
NPR
Two Michigan reporters show how Larry Nassar abused girls for years without consequences, and how the survivors finally got people to listen.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONYour Own Backyard
Chris Lambert
Musician Chris Lambert looks into the 1996 disappearance of Cal Poly student Kristin Smart, and his work helped lead to an arrest.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONThe Mile Zero Murders from Uncover
CBC
CBC's investigative series picks a new case each season. The first season covered the Vancouver side of the NXIVM cult.
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IN THIS COLLECTIONSweet Bobby
Tortoise Media
Alexi Mostrous tells the story of a London radio presenter who was catfished for nearly a decade, and the reveal of who did it is wild.
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