New True Crime Podcasts: November 2026

The new true crime podcasts worth your time this November are the BBC's Sarah Payne: Unforgotten for a serious British documentary, ABC's Cold Blooded: Who Killed These Girls? for wrongful-conviction followers, Investigate: Finding Priscilla for Australian missing-persons fans and Mother Knows Murder for lighter company. The Gilded Rage, which started in October, is still rolling out.

For this roundup I went through what has actually landed, on which app, and how much of it you can hear today. A lot of new shows now arrive staggered, with a few episodes behind a subscription and the rest weeks later, so "out now" doesn't always mean what it says. Here is the quick version, then the detail.

• Shadow World: Sarah Payne: Unforgotten (BBC Radio 4 and BBC Local, produced by Forest): six-part documentary, full boxset on BBC Sounds now.
• Cold Blooded: Who Killed These Girls? (ABC Audio and 20/20): six-part series, three episodes for subscribers now, free everywhere from 24 November.
• Investigate: Finding Priscilla (Tapt Media, Crime Central Australia): six-part series, first two episodes out.
• Mother Knows Murder with Niecy Nash-Betts and Dia La Ren (Crime House, PAVE Studios): weekly video podcast, new episodes on Tuesdays.
• The Gilded Rage (AYR Media): weekly investigative serial (started 19 October, still releasing), five episodes on the free feed, full series on Patreon.

Shadow World: Sarah Payne: Unforgotten

If you were in Britain in the summer of 2000, you'll remember this case. On 1 July that year, eight-year-old Sarah Payne disappeared from a field near her grandparents' home in West Sussex. Her body was found 17 days later. She had been abducted and murdered by a convicted sex offender.

What makes this series different from the many retellings since is where it puts its weight. Across six episodes, documentary-maker Edmund Coulthard uses archive and new testimony from Sarah's family, detectives, journalists and politicians to follow three threads: the murder investigation, the News of the World campaign to "name and shame" sex offenders, and the long fight for Sarah's Law led by her mother, Sara Payne. Coulthard puts it plainly in the BBC's announcement: "No-one has ever told the bigger story of Sara Payne's incredible struggle to bring Sarah's Law into being."

The crime doesn't need dramatising. The more interesting question now is how one family's loss changed the way Britain thinks about sex offenders living in communities, and whether the newspaper campaign helped or harmed.

The whole series has been on BBC Sounds as a boxset since Sunday 8 November, and it runs on BBC Radio 4 from Wednesday 11 November at 9.30am. On other podcast apps it's arriving in the Shadow World feed, so BBC Sounds is the place to binge it. Take it in order; it's built as a single story. For more home-grown listening, our UK true crime podcasts page is a good next stop.

Cold Blooded: Who Killed These Girls?

In December 1991, firefighters were called to the I Can't Believe It's Yogurt! shop in an Austin, Texas strip mall. Inside they found four girls dead: Amy Ayers, Jennifer Harbison, Sarah Harbison and Eliza Thomas. The building had been set on fire.

The case became one of the most notorious in Texas, and one of the most troubling, because the investigation produced wrongful convictions. It was 34 years before authorities identified the man they say was the real killer. In September 2025, Austin Police said DNA evidence matched Robert Eugene Brashers, who died in 1999.

This six-part series from 20/20 and ABC Audio is hosted by Cristina Corbin, an editorial producer on 20/20. ABC says it includes the first in-depth interview with one of the wrongfully convicted men, and it covers how genetic genealogy helped solve the case. That interview is the reason I'd listen. Plenty of shows have covered the crime; far fewer have given real time to the people the system got wrong.

Release is staggered. The first three episodes went out on 10 November, ad-free for 20/20 True Crime+ subscribers on Apple Podcasts (an Apple subscription channel; check it's offered in your country). Everyone else gets it on all platforms from 24 November, with new episodes on Tuesdays, and the trailer is out now on ABC Audio. If you're not subscribing, wait for 24 November and binge the first three together. Followers of wrongful conviction podcasts will want this on their list, and our explainer on how genetic genealogy is cracking cold cases is useful background.

Investigate: Finding Priscilla

Tapt Media has launched a new true crime brand, Crime Central Australia, and Investigate is its first show. Its first season goes back to July 2018, when Priscilla Brooten, a 46-year-old American woman living in Brisbane, went missing. Police didn't begin searching for six months, and the investigation eventually took them to the United States and back. In June 2026 a man was found guilty of her murder, but Priscilla has never been found.

Tara Cassidy, a crime and investigative journalist who previously hosted Killer Charm, leads this first season. Investigate itself is co-hosted by Cassidy and Amelia Oberhardt. Cassidy revisits the period before Priscilla disappeared, including interviews with people who have never spoken publicly. Her stated aim, in radioinfo's launch coverage, is to look at the questions that remain after a verdict.

The first two of six episodes came out on Monday 9 November in Australia (Sunday evening, 8 November, in the UK) on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube. Beyond this season, Investigate plans to mix single-case seasons with weekly episodes on Australian crime news. Fans of Australian true crime podcasts will want to try it.

Mother Knows Murder with Niecy Nash-Betts and Dia La Ren

A complete change of pace. Emmy-winning actress Niecy Nash-Betts and her daughter Dia La Ren talk through real cases: in each episode one of them tells the story and the other hears it for the first time. It's a weekly video podcast from Crime House and PAVE Studios.

It premiered on Disney+ and Hulu in the US on 9 November and arrived on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and other apps on 10 November, with new episodes on Tuesdays. Episode one, "How a Costco Cup Caught a Killer Cop | The Sherri Rasmussen Case", runs about 44 minutes on Apple.

This is a chat-and-reaction show, not an investigation. If you like the host-led energy of the shows in our comedy true crime roundup, give it one episode and see whether the double act works for you. One episode in, it's too early for me to say how it holds up.

Still rolling out from October: The Gilded Rage

This one isn't a November launch. The trailer went up on 17 October and the first two episodes on 19 October, but it is still releasing weekly, on Mondays. It's also the show I'd most like people to approach carefully.

Host Lauren Malloy and producer Aliza Rosen begin with an email from Penelope "Penny" McGee, who says she was sexually assaulted as a teenager in 1981. Working through police reports, court records and first-hand testimony, the series investigates her allegations against a man it identifies only as "J." It also looks at the 1985 death of Sherri Clark, an 18-year-old freshman at the University of Colorado Boulder. J. denies the allegations, and the show says Sherri's manner of death is officially considered accidental. On 8 November the show published a short "Legal Clarifications" episode after hearing from his lawyer.

So be clear on what this is: an investigation into allegations, not a story with a settled ending. The show doesn't ask you to take anyone's account on trust, and you shouldn't either.

Episode 5 came out on 9 November, and the full series is on the show's Patreon; the free feed is on Apple Podcasts and other apps. Begin at episode one, and listen to the "Legal Clarifications" episode when you reach it. Listeners who like long-form investigative serials that open more questions than they close will get the most from it. Content note: the series deals with sexual assault.

Coming soon

Cold Blooded: Who Killed These Girls? goes wide on all platforms on 24 November 2026.

ABC is also lining up Britain's Most Notorious Crimes (working title), which revisits British cases including those of Ben Needham, Joanna Yeates, Jane Andrews and Peter Tobin. It's due for 20/20 True Crime+ subscribers on 5 January 2027 and on all platforms from 19 January 2027.

How we pick new releases

Every show here launched or was still releasing in November 2026, and I've checked each one's release status and where you can hear it. None of them gets a score yet. With only a few episodes out, any verdict is provisional. Shows that earn a place get a full rating later, using the approach set out on our how we review page. For one carefully chosen pick each week, the newsletter is the easiest way to keep up.