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  1. #1 Serial (2014) Long-form investigative journalism that helped define modern podcasting. Season 1 reinvestigates the 1999 murder conviction of Adnan Syed. True Crime Storytelling 100% liked · 2 votes
  2. #2 Dateline: True Crime Weekly (2026) A weekly news podcast for the true crime junkie, from the true crime experts you’ve come to trust. Every Thursday Dateline correspondent Andrea Canning and her guests dive into the… True Crime Storytelling
  3. #3 True Crime All The Time Unsolved (2026) Each week Mike Ferguson and Mike Gibson guide you through the most interesting unsolved true crime stories. This is a true crime podcast that spares none of the details. We tell th… True Crime Storytelling
  4. #4 Prime Crime: Solved Murders (2026) Hosted and executive produced by Attorney and Law&Crime anchor Jesse Weber, Prime Crime puts a spotlight on infamously controversial stories that have shocked investigators and the… True Crime Storytelling
  5. #5 The FOX True Crime Podcast w/ Emily Compagno (2026) The most compelling True Crime stories – five days a week.Each week, Outnumbered Co-Host Emily Compagno teams up with FOX News Digital true crime reporters, legal experts, and the … True Crime Storytelling
  6. #6 Casefile True Crime (2026) Fact is scarier than fiction. Subscribe to Casefile Premium to receive ad-free episodes released one week early, along with access to bonus Q&A’s, our exclusive show ‘Behind the Fi… True Crime Storytelling
  7. #7 True Crime Obsessed (2026) The true crime 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 listen… True Crime Storytelling
  8. #8 🎙️ Disgraceland (2018) True-crime-style stories from the seedy side of rock and roll — the murders, robberies, and feuds behind the music. Music True Crime
  9. #9 🎙️ Darknet Diaries (2017) True stories from the dark side of the internet — hackers, breaches, cyber-crime cases — recounted in narrative form by a security pro. Technology True Crime
  10. #10 🎙️ Bad Bets (2021) The Wall Street Journal reporter who broke the Theranos story unspools other tales of corporate fraud, season by season. Business True Crime
  11. #11 Wind of Change (2020) A New Yorker writer investigates a wild rumor — that the CIA secretly wrote the Scorpions' 1990 power ballad to bring down the Soviet Union. True Crime History
  12. #12 Over My Dead Body (2019) Each season unspools one shocking crime — a power-couple divorce gone homicidal, a family secret, a small-town murder. True Crime
  13. #13 Bad Bad Thing (2020) Long-form crime narratives about scams, cons, and the people who get away with them — often for far too long. True Crime
  14. #14 Tom Brown's Body (2019) A Texas Monthly writer investigates the case of a small-town teen whose body turned up six months after he vanished, and the suspects everyone in town knew. True Crime
  15. #15 Suspect (2021) A serial-style narrative investigation: a single death, a single suspect, and a year unspooling the case in painstaking detail. True Crime
  16. #16 Crime Show (2021) Each episode is one stranger-than-fiction story of crime — petty, grand, or in between — narrated with cinematic flourish. True Crime Storytelling
  17. #17 The Trail Went Cold (2014) A long-running deep dive into obscure unsolved disappearances and murders that never got the press they deserved. True Crime
  18. #18 Stolen (2021) Indigenous journalist Connie Walker tells stories about missing and murdered Indigenous people, and unearths buried family histories. True Crime Society
  19. #19 Hunting Warhead (2019) A globe-spanning investigation into the dark-web child-exploitation ring known as the Warhead, and the journalists and cops who infiltrated it. True Crime
  20. #20 Park Predators (2020) True-crime cases that took place in America's national and state parks — disappearances, murders, and the rangers who hunted the killers. True Crime
  21. #21 Court Junkie (2016) Tape from the courtroom — trials, sentencing, and verdicts — woven together with reporter commentary to follow cases from arrest to conviction. True Crime
  22. #22 Real Crime Profile (2016) A retired FBI profiler, a behavioral analyst, and a casting director break down high-profile cases through the lens of criminal psychology. True Crime
  23. #23 CounterClock (2020) Investigative seasons that reopen specific cold cases, with reporting that has occasionally prompted law enforcement action. True Crime
  24. #24 To Live and Die in LA (2019) A bestselling author investigates the disappearance of a young actress in Los Angeles, in real time. True Crime
  25. #25 American Scandal (2018) Multi-part narrative arcs about the great American scandals — Watergate, Iran-Contra, Enron, Theranos, and many more. True Crime History
  26. #26 The Vanished (2016) Weekly missing-persons cases — the bulk of them cold — told with deep family interviews and meticulous case-file research. True Crime
  27. #27 Believed (2018) How USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar abused hundreds of girls — and how the survivors finally got him put away. True Crime Society
  28. #28 The Teacher's Pet (2018) A reporter reinvestigates the 1982 disappearance of Lynette Dawson — and helps spur the prosecution of her husband decades later. True Crime
  29. #29 Dirty John (2017) A reported six-part series about a Newport Beach interior designer whose new boyfriend turns out to be a serial con man. True Crime
  30. #30 Atlanta Monster (2018) A reinvestigation of the Atlanta child murders of 1979–1981 and the controversial conviction of Wayne Williams. True Crime History

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