Apple Podcasts – United States – True Crime
Top podcasts in United States from the Apple Podcasts charts for True Crime.
- 1Increased by 3audiochuck
Crime Junkie
- 2Increased by 3NBC News
Dateline NBC
- 3Decreased by 1ABC News
What Happened to Holly Bobo?
- 4Increased by 25Sony Music Entertainment
The Binge Cases: Catch Me If You Ken
- 5Increased by 1Morbid Network | Wondery
Morbid
- 6Increased by 68iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts
Betrayal: Season 4
- 7Decreased by 6Pushkin Industries
Deep Cover
- 8Increased by 3CBS News
48 Hours
- 9Increased by 3ABC News
20/20
- 10Increased by 5Ballen Studios
MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories
- 11Decreased by 4Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel
Blink | Jake Haendel's Story
- 12Increased by 9NBC News
Dateline Originals
- 13Increased by 5iHeartPodcasts
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
- 14Decreased by 5The New Yorker
In The Dark
- 15Decreased by 7Stephanie Soo
Rotten Mango
- 16Increased by 17iHeartPodcasts
What Happened to Talina Zar
- 17Decreased by 410 to LIFE & Audioboom Studios
Serialously with Annie Elise
- 18Increased by 8Sword and Scale
Sword and Scale
- 19Increased by 11Oxygen
Snapped: Women Who Murder
- 20Increased by 85NBC News
Dateline: Missing In America
- 21Increased by 1audiochuck
Park Predators
- 22Increased by 14The Last Podcast Network
Last Podcast On The Left
- 23Increased by 61The Boston Globe Spotlight Team
Spotlight: Snitch City
- 24Increased by 34Sony Music Entertainment
Two Girls One Ghost
- 25Decreased by 22ABC News
Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy
- 26Increased by 28ID
Fear Thy Neighbor
- 27Increased by 0Wondery | Ballen Studios
MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries
- 28Decreased by 4audiochuck
Anatomy of Murder
- 29Increased by 14Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios
True Crime with Kendall Rae
- 30Increased by 20audiochuck
The Deck
- 31NEWiHeartPodcasts
Camp Shame
- 32Increased by 8Casefile Presents
Casefile True Crime
- 33Increased by 33CBC
White Hot Hate: Agent Pale Horse
- 34Decreased by 20Foxtopus Ink
Blood Vines
- 35Increased by 14Crime House
Scams, Money, & Murder
- 36NEWWondery
Liberty Lost
- 37Increased by 5audiochuck
Dark Downeast
- 38Increased by 7NBC News
Murder in the Moonlight
- 39Increased by 16Sony Music Entertainment
The Binge Crimes: The Arsonist Next Door
- 40Decreased by 15NBC10 Boston
The Karen Read Murder Trial: Canton Confidential
- 41Decreased by 18Crime House
Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
- 42Increased by 15Broken Cycle Media | Wondery
Something Was Wrong
- 43Increased by 63Chris Lambert
Your Own Backyard
- 44Increased by 8Apple TV+ / Campside Media
Big Time
- 45Increased by 1Audioboom Studios
Murder, Mystery & Makeup
- 46Increased by 19A&E / PodcastOne
Cold Case Files
- 47Decreased by 8CBC
Uncover: Calls From a Killer
- 48Increased by 0CBS News
Trained to Kill: The Dog Trainer, the Heiress and the Bodyguard
- 49Decreased by 18Heart Starts Pounding
Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries
- 50Increased by 13NHPR
Bear Brook
- 51Decreased by 14OH NO MEDIA
Murder With My Husband
- 52Increased by 83iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts
Betrayal: Weekly
- 53Increased by 7True Crime Obsessed
True Crime Obsessed
- 54Decreased by 19Tenderfoot TV
Up and Vanished
- 55Decreased by 36Law&Crime | Wondery
KAREN: THE RETRIAL
- 56Decreased by 18Wondery | Sun Sentinel
Felonious Florida
- 57Increased by 4NBC News
Deadly Mirage
- 58Decreased by 42Daily Mail
The Trial of Diddy
- 59Decreased by 3iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
- 60Decreased by 7audiochuck
THREE
- 61Decreased by 44NBC News
Dateline: True Crime Weekly
- 62Increased by 0Bloody FM
Murder In America
- 64NEWThe Messenger
The Rachel Cancer Scam
- 65Increased by 14Dark West Productions
Going West: True Crime
- 66Decreased by 7True Crime Today
The Trial Of Karen Read | Justice For John O'Keefe
- 67Increased by 34Audio 99
Small Town Dicks
- 68Increased by 9CBC
Someone Knows Something
- 69Increased by 4TRUE CRIME GARAGE
True Crime Garage
- 70Decreased by 6CBC + BBC World Service
The Con: Kaitlyn's Baby
- 71Decreased by 43Lava for Good Podcasts
Bone Valley
- 72Increased by 41Wondery
The Generation Why Podcast
- 73Increased by 10KSL Podcasts
Cold
- 74NEWEPD Cold Case
Somebody Knows Something
- 75Decreased by 28Wondery
Guru: Don't Cross Kat
- 76Increased by 14Wondery | RedHanded
RedHanded
- 77Increased by 10Audioboom Studios
National Park After Dark
- 79Increased by 32A Concerned Citizen
Swindled
- 80Increased by 9A&E / PodcastOne
I Survived
- 81Decreased by 37Crime House
Murder: True Crime Stories
- 82Increased by 4Ballen Studios
Bedtime Stories
- 83Increased by 41HLN
Forensic Files
- 84Decreased by 8True Story Media
Nobody Should Believe Me
- 85Decreased by 51Michelle Cuervo
I Wish You Were Here
- 86Decreased by 15Road Trip Studios
SEQUESTERED Podcast
- 87Increased by 40Orbit Media
The Burden
- 88Increased by 7Spotify Studios
Serial Killers
- 89Increased by 25iHeartPodcasts
Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes
- 90NEWCBC
Sea of Lies
- 91Increased by 8iHeartPodcasts
Happy Face
- 92Increased by 26OH NO MEDIA
Into The Dark
- 93Increased by 4audiochuck
The Deck Investigates
- 94Increased by 23Audioboom Studios
The Lets Read Podcast
- 95Increased by 21Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios
Mile Higher
- 96Increased by 62Audioboom Studios
Crime Weekly
- 97Increased by 3Wondery
The Vanished Podcast
- 98Increased by 44Wolf Entertainment + CBC
Aftermath: Hunt for the Anthrax Killer
- 99Increased by 57Emash Digital / Wondery
True Crime All The Time
- 100Decreased by 15Apple TV+ / Blanchard House
Extrasensory
- 101Increased by 1Apple TV+ / FunMeter
Scamtown
- 102Decreased by 70Wondery
Death County, PA
- 103Decreased by 12Ballen Studios
Late Nights with Nexpo
- 104NEWNBC News
The Thing About Pam
- 105Decreased by 33Baker Media, LLC.
The Emily Show
- 106Decreased by 3Cryptic County
Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast
- 107Decreased by 38Brandi Churchwell
13th Juror Podcast
- 108NEWWNYC
Dead End: Crime and Politics
- 109Increased by 51Reach Freaks
Invisible Choir
- 110Decreased by 100audiochuck
Dark Valley
- 111Decreased by 43Tenderfoot TV
Up and Vanished Weekly
- 112Decreased by 5Wondery
Dr. Death
- 113Decreased by 17Wondery | Treefort Media
Killer Psyche
- 114Increased by 35Sarah Turney
Voices for Justice
- 115Increased by 47Grip Tape
The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories
- 116Decreased by 65CNN
Trial By Jury: Diddy
- 117Increased by 4Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins
Scared To Death
- 118Decreased by 30Tenderfoot TV and iHeartPodcasts
Crook County
- 119Increased by 21iHeartPodcasts
Intentionally Disturbing
- 120Decreased by 38PodcastOne
The Prosecutors
- 121Increased by 17Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts
The Knife: A True Crime Podcast
- 122Decreased by 7Lionsgate Sound
Scamanda
- 123Decreased by 1Hidden True Crime | QCODE
Hidden True Crime
- 124Decreased by 57iHeartPodcasts
My Friend Daisy
- 125Decreased by 17Crime House
Killer Minds: Inside the Minds of Serial Killers & Murderers
- 126Increased by 68Crime Salad
Crime Salad
- 127Increased by 45Cloud10
People are the Worst
- 128Increased by 29I Think Not!
I Think Not!
- 129Increased by 3Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios
Lights Out
- 130NEWiHeartPodcasts
Hell and Gone
- 131Increased by 5iHeartPodcasts and Cool Zone Media
Weird Little Guys
- 132Increased by 50Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette
LOVE MURDER
- 133NEWInfamy
Infamy
- 134Increased by 13Kallmekris | QCODE
Crime, Conspiracy, Cults and Murder
- 135Decreased by 10iHeartPodcasts
The Idaho Massacre
- 136NEWEmash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford
Criminology
- 137NEWTNT / Cadence13
Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia
- 138Increased by 17Ballen Studios
RUN, FOOL!
- 139Increased by 15ID
Nightmare Next Door
- 140Decreased by 11Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media
Chameleon: Dr. Miracle
- 141NEWABC News
Devil in the Desert
- 142NEWAskolta Media
A Trial by Podcast
- 143Decreased by 102True Crime Today
The Downfall Of Diddy | The Case Against Sean 'Puffy P Diddy' Combs
- 144Decreased by 35Court TV
Court TV Podcast
- 145Increased by 5Sword and Scale
This Doesn't Happen to People Like Me
- 146NEWToronto Star
Suspicion: Murder on Mount Olive
- 147Decreased by 21Not Your Mom Media
Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast
- 148Increased by 23Audacy Podcasts
Gone South
- 149Decreased by 129iHeartPodcasts
Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes present: Aubrey O’Day, Covering the Diddy Trial
- 150Decreased by 75MyCultura and iHeartPodcasts
Murder on the Towpath with Soledad O’Brien
- 151Decreased by 71Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield
Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield
- 152Decreased by 19Apple TV+ / Spoke Media
Under Cover of Knight
- 153Decreased by 23Investigator Slater
Psychopedia
- 154Increased by 13LUNASHARK
True Sunlight
- 155Increased by 9Alexis Linkletter, Jac Vanek
The First Degree
- 156NEWVoices for Justice Media
Media Pressure
- 157NEWiHeartPodcasts and Novel
The Girlfriends: Spotlight
- 158Decreased by 14Wondery | Pineapple Street Studios
Ghost Story
- 159NEWEvery Town
Every Town
- 160NEWKimberly and Katie - ADWDL
A Date With Dateline
- 161NEWWondery | Novel
Kill List
- 162Decreased by 10iHeartPodcasts
Murder on Songbird Road
- 163NEWPodcastOne
The Prosecutors: Legal Briefs
- 164Increased by 10Bloody FM
The Conspiracy Files
- 165NEWBarstool Sports
The Case
- 166NEWCBC
The Outlaw Ocean
- 167Decreased by 26Sony Music Entertainment
Finding Mom's Killer
- 168Increased by 2Cloud10
Women and Crime
- 169NEWThey Walk Among Us
They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime
- 170Decreased by 1ID
Who Killed Jennifer Judd?
- 171NEWMr. Nightmare
Mr. Nightmare Podcast
- 172Increased by 17NBC News
Motive for Murder
- 173NEWID
Unraveled
- 174Increased by 9PodcastOne
Court Junkie
- 175Increased by 10Apple TV+ / Jigsaw Productions
The Line
- 176NEWABC listen
Mushroom Case Daily
- 177Increased by 22Cloud10
Black Girl Gone: A True Crime Podcast
- 178NEWPodcastOne
True Crime All The Time Unsolved
- 179NEWThe Globe and Mail
In Her Defence: 50th Street
- 180Increased by 7Audioboom Studios
The Criminal Makeup
- 181Decreased by 58Full Trial Audio
Full Trial Audio: Karen Read (John O'Keefe Murder)
- 182NEWYellow Path Productions
The Witness: In His Own Words
- 183NEWdfy6r7x7sy
The Who Killed Kurt Podcast
- 184NEWCasefile Presents
Crime Interrupted
- 185Decreased by 48Wondery
Over My Dead Body
- 186Decreased by 21Sword and Scale
Sword and Scale Nightmares
- 188Decreased by 20Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
- 189NEWCNBC
American Greed Podcast
- 190NEWSony Music Entertainment
The Conspiracy Tapes
- 191Decreased by 93Big Mad Media | QCODE
Big Mad True Crime
- 192Decreased by 6CrimeOnline and iHeartPodcasts
Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan
- 193Decreased by 13NBC News
The Man in the Black Mask
- 194Decreased by 66audiochuck
Drowning Creek
- 195NEWStudio 222
Last Seen Alive
- 196Decreased by 20Matthew Cox
Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
- 197NEWCBC
Hunting Warhead
- 198NEWNBC News
Morrison Mysteries
- 199Decreased by 4Amye Archer
Murder She Watched
- 200Decreased by 55iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts
American Homicide
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a True Crime podcast?
A True Crime podcast is a type of audio show that focuses on real-life criminal stories. These might include murders, missing persons cases, robberies, or other serious crimes.
In each episode, the hosts try to piece together what really happened by looking at evidence, talking to experts, and explaining different points of view.
By listening, you get a chance to understand the events behind a crime and learn about the people involved, whether they are victims, investigators, or suspects.
What are the Top True Crime Podcast?
Deadly Mirage," Dateline NBC's newest podcast hosted by Josh Mankiewicz, is one of the hottest tickets in town. As of Dec. 10, 2024 it reached number one on Apple Podcasts' Top New Shows in the U.S.
The series investigates a murder plot right in the Mojave Desert of California-a labyrinthine tale of secrets of sex, friendship, and religion. Strong storytelling combined with the great reputation of Dateline has made it achieve fast success. Read our review here!
Crime Junkie," from AudioChuck and hosted by Ashley Flowers, has remained one of the most popular true crime podcasts. The show ranked as the second most popular podcast in the U.S. on Apple's year-end chart for 2024, behind only The Daily.
Since its release, the show has been in a position to present captivating and well-researched crime stories that have maintained its place among the audience.
Dateline NBC" is presented by one of the biggest players in the true crime podcasting game, the Canadian-American media journalist Keith Morrisremains.
It's still one of the biggest players in the true crime podcasting game. It came in fourth on Apple's ranking of the most popular podcasts in the U.S. for 2024.
The podcast is an audio version of Dateline television episodes where listeners receive in-depth coverage about intriguing stories of crimes and their investigations.
Their success is built on several factors: perfect production quality, engaging stories, and public interest in true crime stories.
Would you like to know which True Crime podcasts would keep you up at night? Read our reviews here!
Are True Crime podcasts suitable for all ages?
Most true crime podcasts are aimed at adults. Some topics can be very upsetting, and certain episodes may have detailed descriptions of violent acts or other sensitive information.
Many shows warn listeners before they share something disturbing, so parents and guardians can decide if it is right for their families. If younger people want to listen, an adult should check the content first to make sure it is appropriate.
Are all True Crime podcasts about unsolved cases?
No, not all true crime podcasts focus on cases that remain unsolved. Some look at old cases that have already been solved and explain how the police and courts handled them.
Others study famous historical crimes or cases where innocent people were convicted. Each show may have its own style. Some try to uncover new clues about forgotten cases, while others explain how justice was served or how mistakes were made along the way.
How accurate are True Crime podcasts?
The accuracy of a show depends on how well the producers research their topics. Good podcasts use reliable sources, such as police reports, court records, and interviews with people who were involved. Some shows are made by journalists or lawyers who know how to verify information.
Others might focus more on telling a dramatic story, which can sometimes lead to mistakes. It is wise to pay attention to where the show gets its facts and to trust podcasts that clearly state their sources.
How to suggest a case to a True Crime podcast?
Many hosts welcome ideas from their audience. Most shows have a website or social media pages where you can get in touch with the team.
You might find instructions for sending in case suggestions, or you can reach out through messages or comments. While not every suggestion will be used, the hosts often appreciate learning about cases they may not have heard of before.
Do True Crime podcasts ever help solve cases?
Sometimes they do. By bringing attention to certain details or telling the story of a case that has gone cold, these podcasts can spark new interest.
Listeners might share tips or information. In a few instances, high-profile shows have led to new investigations or even arrests. While this is not the goal of every show, it shows how the popularity of podcasts can have an impact in the real world.
Are True Crime podcasts exploitative of victims or their families?
This is a concern for many listeners. Thoughtful producers try to handle their stories with care. They focus on facts, avoid being overly graphic, and respect the people who were harmed. Some shows talk to victims’ families or bring in experts who work with them.
Not all podcasts handle this equally well, though. A good tip is to pay attention to how the hosts talk about the victims. If it feels respectful and considerate, it is a sign that the show is taking the right approach.
How can I find the best True Crime podcasts?
You can start by looking at podcast charts, recommendations on apps, or trusted reviewers online. Well-known shows often have many listeners and good ratings.
You can also search for podcasts that match your interests, like historical crimes, international cases, or stories that focus on criminal psychology. Reading reviews and asking friends for suggestions can help you discover shows that are both informative and entertaining.
How often do True Crime podcasts release new episodes?
It depends on the show. Some come out every week or every two weeks. Others release episodes one season at a time, so you might get a bunch of episodes all at once.
More complex shows with lots of research might need more time between episodes. If you subscribe to a podcast on a platform like Apple Podcasts or Spotify, you will usually get an alert when a new episode is ready. This makes it easy to stay up to date with your favorite shows.