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The top true crime series to binge
50 True Crime podcasts told as one story, best heard from the first episode on, all free to listen to and with an episode out in the last month.
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- Best placed on Apple Podcasts' charts first
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1. Bear Brook
- Length
- 44 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 26
- Since
- 2018
Bear Brook, hosted by Jason Moon, is the critically-acclaimed true crime podcast from New Hampshire Public Radio. Season 1 - Two barrels. Four Bodies. And a…
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2. Betrayal Season 6
- Length
- 48 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 187
- Since
- 2022
In Season 6, we tackle a brand-new type of betrayal – not one between a husband and wife, but within a tight-knit community of friends and family. After Carl…
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3. Love Trapped
- Length
- 52 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 35
- Since
- 2026
Former Bachelor Clayton Echard’s casual one-night fling turned into a paternity nightmare. When the news broke about the scandal, no one believed Clayton at…
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4. My Mom’s Murder
- 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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5. In The Dark
- Length
- 47 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 29
- Since
- 2016
In the Dark, hosted by Madeleine Baran, is an award-winning investigative-journalism podcast that started in 2016. Its first season looked at the mysterious…
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6. Not Just A Terrible Story
- 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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7. Over My Dead Body
- Length
- 38 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 25
- Since
- 2019
A Hollywood stuntwoman turned personal injury attorney. A handsome disbarred lawyer with a dark past. And an elaborate scheme that leads to murder. Former…
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8. Heart
- 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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9. Death of an Artist
- Length
- 40 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 27
- Since
- 2022
In February 2024, celebrated children’s book author and illustrator Petra Mathers and her husband, photographer Michael Mathers, mailed letters to dozens of…
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10. The Woman in the Woods
- 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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11. Burden of Guilt
- Length
- 36 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 46
- Since
- 2023
For one mother, believing the truth cost her everything. After a contentious divorce, Cindy was ready to begin again. To her surprise, she found a new…
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12. The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions
- Length
- 39 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 197
- Since
- 2020
After Derika Moses injured her back at work, she got her spine fused. But after surgery, her pain only got worse. She didn’t know why — until she got a letter…
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13. The Scream Murder: A True Teen Horror Story
- 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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14. Up and Vanished
- Length
- 38 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 197
- Since
- 2016
Host Payne Lindsey heads to the edge of the arctic circle to investigate two mysterious disappearances from Nome, Alaska. Up and Vanished investigates…
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15. BABY
- 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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16. COLD
- Length
- 1 hr 13 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 99
- Since
- 2018
COLD is a narrative podcast series focused on missing persons cases. Investigative journalist and host Dave Cawley takes on a single story with each season…
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17. Cruel Summer: The Violent Death of Tiffany Valiante
- 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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18. The Gilded Rage
- 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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19. Something Was Wrong
- Length
- 53 min
- Releases
- Twice a week
- Episodes
- 379
- Since
- 2018
Something Was Wrong is an award-winning docuseries about survivors' discovery, trauma, and recovery from crime and abuse.
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20. Bone Valley
- Length
- 39 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 71
- Since
- 2022
Behind every Bone Valley season is a conviction: the right story, told with purpose, humanity, and craft, can have an enormous impact. Award-winning…
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21. Heist at the Louvre
- 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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22. Uncover
- Length
- 34 min
- Releases
- Daily
- Episodes
- 328
- Since
- 2018
How did a small town Canadian boy allegedly become a narco kingpin? Ryan Wedding was once a promising young athlete, a snowboarder who went all the way to the…
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23. Scamanda
- Length
- 42 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 20
- Since
- 2023
Amanda is a wife. A mother. A blogger. A Christian.A charming, beautiful, bubbly, young woman who lives life to the fullest.But Amanda is dying, with a secret…
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24. Five Miles From Home
- Length
- 35 min
- Releases
- Twice a week
- Episodes
- 10
- Since
- 2026
When beloved high school junior Micaela Costanzo disappears on her way home from track practice, the race to find her leads to unlikely suspects, simmering…
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25. Dr. Death
- Length
- 38 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 15
- Since
- 2018
Dr. John Schneider rode into town like a character out of a Western: an outsider on a Harley-Davidson, in trademark cowboy boots. He promised relief to patients…
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26. Deep Cover
- Length
- 41 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 86
- Since
- 2020
Deep Cover is a show about people who lead double lives. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jake Halpern reveals webs of deception and dark underworlds…
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27. American Nightmares: The Canal Murders
- Length
- 50 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 76
- Since
- 2019
SEASON 6 AVAILABLE NOW. NEW EPISODES DROP EVERY TUESDAY. Every headline hides a deeper story. American Nightmares pulls you into the most unsettling true…
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28. Examined: The Backfire Effect
- Length
- 40 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 72
- Since
- 2021
About Examined: Overlooked cases that never got the real investigation they deserved. Each season features deeply reported stories about crime, punishment…
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29. Miami Mystery: The Disappearance of Olavi Hendrickson
- 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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30. Who Killed Angel Harris?
- Length
- 47 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 36
- Since
- 2023
On June 25th, 2011, 31-year old Angel Harris is discovered murdered in downtown Gainesville, Florida. Despite an early lead when investigators believe they have…
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31. Nobody Should Believe Me
- Length
- 55 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 166
- Since
- 2022
Author Andrea Dunlop is looking for answers. When her older sister was first investigated for Munchausen by Proxy abuse more than a decade ago, it tore her…
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32. Bed of Lies
- Length
- 44 min
- Releases
- Twice a week
- Episodes
- 31
- Since
- 2020
A taxi driver is shot dead in front of his children. A high-security room goes up in flames. Then terrorists are unmasked as spies. And behind it all, a shadowy…
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33. PRETEND
- Length
- 37 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 330
- Since
- 2017
PRETEND is an investigative true crime podcast about real people who lie for a living — con artists, scammers, and the victims caught in their web. Hosted by…
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34. The Poisoned Wife
- 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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35. Who Killed Daphne?
- Length
- 33 min
- Releases
- Every few months
- Episodes
- 6
- Since
- 2022
When a car bomb kills Daphne Caruana Galizia on the beautiful Mediterranean island of Malta, the hunt for her killers exposes secrets with consequences that…
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36. The Piketon Massacre
- Length
- 42 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 64
- Since
- 2020
The most notorious mass murder in Ohio’s history happened on the night of April 21, 2016 in rural Pike County. Four crime scenes, thirty-two gunshot wounds…
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37. Gone South
- Length
- 33 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 106
- Since
- 2021
For years, Gone South has been a podcast about crime in the American South. But in Season 5, we’re widening the lens.Through deeply reported, narrative-driven…
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38. Doctor’s Orders
- Length
- 43 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 3
- Since
- 2025
At the end of a long night fighting with her boyfriend, a young aspiring actress and model living in Santa Monica, Calif. invites a stranger into her home…
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39. Paper Ghosts: The Texas Teen Murders
- Length
- 47 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 59
- Since
- 2020
Paper Ghosts: The Texas Teen Murders takes you back to 1983, when two teenagers were found murdered, execution-style, on a quiet Texas hill. What followed was…
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40. In Her Defence: Breach of Trust
- Length
- 34 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 26
- Since
- 2023
What happens when one of the “good guys” turns out to be a bad guy? The highly-acclaimed true crime podcast series In Her Defence returns with In Her Defence…
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41. The Mysteries Of Derlin County
- Length
- 32 min
- Releases
- Twice a week
- Episodes
- 383
- Since
- 2023
Brandon returns home to Derlin county to solve a mystery surrounding a girl who went missing from his high school. After figuring it out, he soon realizes…
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42. Infamous America
- Length
- 34 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 311
- Since
- 2018
Historical True Crime — assassins, gangsters, mobsters and lawmen; manhunts, scandals and unexplained phenomena. Stories of the wildest and darkest chapters…
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43. Drilled
- Length
- 43 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 271
- Since
- 2018
Drilled is a true-crime climate change podcast exposing how corporate corruption and political operatives built decades of climate denial and delay. Hosted…
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44. The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?
- Length
- 41 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 162
- Since
- 2021
From the outside, 3635 Pitch Pine Crescent looked like the kind of home where nothing bad could happen, the gathering place for every birthday and holiday…
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45. Fatal Attraction
- Length
- 42 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 150
- Since
- 2022
TV One's #TrueCrimeMonday is now available everywhere you listen to podcasts. Fatal Attraction is an investigative docu-series surrounding true life stories…
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46. Careless | Tortoise Investigates
- Length
- 40 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 121
- Since
- 2021
When she was 12, the actor Nkechi Simms' mother handed her over to Camden Council and she was placed in foster care. Now she wants to find out what happened…
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47. Crime Next Door
- Length
- 26 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 110
- Since
- 2024
Gripping True Crime stories from neighbourhoods across the UK. Series 14. The Playground Murder Audrey Gillan traces the ripple effects of the murder of a…
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48. The Idaho Massacre
- Length
- 29 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 103
- Since
- 2020
On November 13, 2022, four students from the University of Idaho are brutally stabbed to death in an off-campus house. After a lengthy investigation and…
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49. Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities
- Length
- 29 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 99
- Since
- 2019
College holds a mythic place in American culture, hailed as the best four years of your life and revered as a beacon of integrity and excellence. But behind the…
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50. The Most Wanted Olympian from Suspicion
- Length
- 34 min
- Releases
- Weekly
- Episodes
- 52
- Since
- 2022
Ryan Wedding was once a promising young athlete, a snowboarder who reached the Olympics. Now captured after a decade on the run, he's accused of running a…
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