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The top new true crime podcasts

29 True Crime podcasts launched in the last 90 days, all free to listen to and with an episode out in the last month.

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  • True Crime shows
  • Launched in the last 90 days
  • An episode out in the last month
  • Best placed on Apple Podcasts' charts first

The list

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  1. 1. My Mom’s Murder

    #15 in True Crime True Crime

    Length
    38 min
    Releases
    Weekly
    Episodes
    8
    Since
    2026

    Lauren Malloy was a baby when her mother, Lori, was murdered in East Providence, Rhode Island. For thirty years, no one told her. Everyone said Lori died of…

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  2. 2. Not Just A Terrible Story

    #18 in True Crime Society & Culture, True Crime

    Length
    42 min
    Releases
    Weekly
    Episodes
    13
    Since
    2026

    When Stacie Love married her former high school teacher, she thought it was a whirlwind romance. Two decades later, she discovered the truth behind the day…

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  3. 3. Heart

    #21 in True Crime Society & Culture, True Crime

    Length
    39 min
    Releases
    Twice a week
    Episodes
    6
    Since
    2026

    Sonny and Terry shared the same heart. They died the same way. And there’s one other thing these two men shared: a wife. A heart transplant transforms Sonny…

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  4. 4. The Woman in the Woods

    #30 in True Crime Society & Culture, True Crime

    Length
    31 min
    Releases
    Weekly
    Episodes
    7
    Since
    2026

    Nick and Mindi Kassotis believed they were being hunted. According to friends and family, Nick's classified military work had put them both in danger, so much…

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  5. 5. The Scream Murder: A True Teen Horror Story

    #39 in True Crime True Crime, TV & Film

    Length
    36 min
    Releases
    Weekly
    Episodes
    6
    Since
    2026

    The Scream Murder unravels the mystery killing of 16-year-old Cassie Stoddart and the shocking tell-all videotape that was never meant to be seen. Coming…

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  6. 6. BABY

    #41 in True Crime Society & Culture, True Crime

    Length
    39 min
    Releases
    Weekly
    Episodes
    8
    Since
    2026

    How do you know you're lost, if you don’t even know you're missing? The remarkable story of Melissa Highsmith being found 51 years after being kidnapped as a…

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  7. 7. Cruel Summer: The Violent Death of Tiffany Valiante

    #46 in True Crime True Crime

    Length
    40 min
    Releases
    Weekly
    Episodes
    9
    Since
    2026

    When the body of 18-year-old Tiffany Valiante was found on railroad tracks deep in the New Jersey Pine Barrens in the summer of 2015, it was all too easy for…

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  8. 8. The Gilded Rage

    #51 in True Crime True Crime

    Length
    44 min
    Releases
    Weekly
    Episodes
    5
    Since
    2026

    The Gilded Rage starts with an email from Penelope “Penny” McGee, who says she was sexually assaulted as a teenager in 1981 by an entitled man who has never…

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  9. 9. Heist at the Louvre

    #61 in True Crime Arts, True Crime

    Length
    34 min
    Releases
    Weekly
    Episodes
    5
    Since
    2026

    On October 19, 2025, the Louvre Museum was robbed. Now, $100 million worth of jewelry, once owned by French royalty, is missing. And the most famous museum in…

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  10. 10. Miami Mystery: The Disappearance of Olavi Hendrickson

    #107 in True Crime True Crime

    Length
    15 min
    Releases
    Weekly
    Episodes
    5
    Since
    2026

    Miami Mystery is a true crime podcast in which Emmy Award winning journalist Dana Dean reopens the unexplained disappearance of her own grandfather, Miami…

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  11. 11. The Poisoned Wife

    #141 in True Crime Society & Culture, True Crime

    Length
    56 min
    Releases
    Weekly
    Episodes
    11
    Since
    2026

    Who killed Rosslyn McQueen? The Australian’s Hedley Thomas and Karina Berger investigate the unsolved 1986 murder of a 30-year-old pregnant mother, poisoned…

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  12. 12. The Survivor Files with Elizabeth Smart

    #142 in True Crime Health & Fitness, True Crime

    Length
    35 min
    Releases
    Twice a week
    Episodes
    15
    Since
    2026

    Hosted by famed abduction survivor turned advocate Elizabeth Smart, The Survivor Files is a true crime podcast featuring firsthand accounts from ordinary people…

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  13. 13. Criminally Online

    #166 in True Crime True Crime

    Length
    45 min
    Releases
    Weekly
    Episodes
    3
    Since
    2026

    Eliza Orlins (public defender, Survivor star) and Thea Johnson (law professor) dissect the true crime cases the internet can't shut up about and get to the…

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  14. 14. Hercule Poirot Stories

    Arts, True Crime

    Length
    1 hr 41 min
    Releases
    Twice a week
    Episodes
    29
    Since
    2026

    Hercule Poirot Stories brings you captivating detective mysteries, classic crime fiction, and intelligent investigations filled with secrets, suspects, and…

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  15. 15. Investigation Chancla

    Society & Culture, True Crime

    Length
    1 hr 21 min
    Releases
    Twice a week
    Episodes
    16
    Since
    2026

    Welcome to Investigation Chancla 🩴 I'm Mama Chancla a nosy PCB with WiFi & this is where we fall FACE-FIRST into the internet's weirdest rabbit holes until…

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  16. 16. Fault Line: Haditha

    Government, True Crime

    Length
    32 min
    Releases
    Weekly
    Episodes
    13
    Since
    2026

    For twenty years, the United States Marine Corps has tried to bury the truth about Haditha. In 2005, 24 civilians were killed by a squad of United States…

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  17. 17. History's Greatest Mysteries

    History, True Crime

    Length
    41 min
    Releases
    Weekly
    Episodes
    13
    Since
    2026

    A History Channel original podcast brought to you by Rewind Studios, History's Greatest Mysteries examines the top theories surrounding the world's most…

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  18. 18. Audible True Crime

    True Crime

    Length
    37 min
    Releases
    Weekly
    Episodes
    12
    Since
    2026

    This is Audible True Crime, a dedicated podcast feed where we bring you the best podcasts in true crime, with episodes dropping every single week. Ghost Story…

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  19. 19. Taming Lyons

    Society & Culture, True Crime

    Length
    43 min
    Releases
    Weekly
    Episodes
    11
    Since
    2026

    Taming Lyons tells the epic true story of Judy Petrucci, the tenacious Lyons Little League mom who risked her life and ran for mayor to help the Feds take…

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  20. 20. Gerbil

    True Crime, TV & Film

    Length
    48 min
    Releases
    Weekly
    Episodes
    9
    Since
    2026

    Everyone knows the story about Richard Gere. Few know how it started. For four decades, a salacious and unproven rumor has shadowed one of Hollywood’s biggest…

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  21. 21. The Case: Lindsay Clancy

    Society & Culture, True Crime

    Length
    10 min
    Releases
    Daily
    Episodes
    9
    Since
    2026

    January 2023. A 911 call. Three children dead in a Massachusetts home. Three and a half years later, a jury deliberated for 38 hours and couldn't reach a…

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  22. 22. Deep Secrets

    Society & Culture, True Crime

    Length
    28 min
    Releases
    Weekly
    Episodes
    8
    Since
    2026

    What would you do if you suddenly found out your Grandpa was in the CIA? When siblings Hunter & Kaylan Hill embark on a quest to understand fatherhood by…

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  23. 23. Don't Date Murderers

    Fiction, True Crime

    Length
    33 min
    Releases
    Weekly
    Episodes
    6
    Since
    2026

    JoJo Putty has one rule: Everyone is a Psychopath until proven innocent. Raised to spot danger before it spots her, JoJo has turned a lifetime of hypervigilance…

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  24. 24. Outlaw's Digest

    History, True Crime

    Length
    37 min
    Releases
    Weekly
    Episodes
    6
    Since
    2026

    Outlaw’s Digest serves up true crimes from food history in sizzling style, a feast of malfeasance and felony from the pages of the past. The food we make and…

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  25. 25. The Always Stay Real Podcast

    News, True Crime

    Length
    11 min
    Releases
    Every two weeks
    Episodes
    6
    Since
    2026

    Discussing current topics from the perspective of the Black American Queer Male. Keep it cute, or put it on mute.

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  26. 26. Black Effect's Bloodline Crimes

    True Crime

    Length
    25 min
    Releases
    Weekly
    Episodes
    5
    Since
    2026

    Black Effects' Bloodline Crimes is a gripping true crime podcast that unearths the chilling stories of Black families entangled in bloodshed, betrayal, and…

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  27. 27. The Real Dracula

    Society & Culture, True Crime

    Length
    43 min
    Releases
    Twice a week
    Episodes
    4
    Since
    2026

    You thought Dracula was all fiction? Think again. The Real Dracula exhumes the true story behind the chilling horror novel. How Bram Stoker drew on real-life…

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  28. 28. Sidewalk Shadows

    Fiction, True Crime

    Length
    16 min
    Releases
    Monthly
    Episodes
    3
    Since
    2026

    Sidewalk Shadows is a true-crime fictional comedy anthology podcast where strange mysteries, unbelievable crimes, and unforgettable characters lurk around every…

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  29. 29. True Crime Wisconsin

    True Crime

    Length
    29 min
    Releases
    Weekly
    Episodes
    4
    Since
    2026

    True Crime Wisconsin, a new weekly podcast from WMTV 15 News, goes beyond the headlines to investigate the state's most haunting unsolved cases. Wisconsin has…

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