Podcasts Like My Favorite Murder for Every Kind of Murderino

My Favorite Murder didn't invent true crime comedy, but it's the show that proved there was an enormous audience for it — enough of one that "Murderino" became a genuinely recognisable identity, not just a fandom label. Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark built something specific: two friends talking through cases the way you'd talk through them with your own friends, complete with tangents, self-deprecation, and the reminder to "stay sexy and don't get murdered." It's rated 5/10 on our binge scale here — not because it's weak, but because the format rewards dipping in and out rather than marathon listening.

If that's the show that got you into the genre, here's where to go depending on which part of it you actually want more of.

More darkness, same amount of jokes

Last Podcast on the Left is the obvious next stop if MFM's humour is the draw and you want it turned up rather than down. Marcus Parks, Ben Kissel, and Henry Zebrowski have been doing this since 2011, and the show has a genuinely different energy — more encyclopaedic, more willing to go somewhere absurd, and considerably darker in the material it's willing to sit with. It's the most downloaded true crime comedy podcast for a reason, and it's rated Must listen on our scale. It's also not for everyone: the humour is broader and blunter than MFM's, and some listeners who like Kilgariff and Hardstark's warmth find LPOTL's tone too flippant for the subject matter. Worth trying an episode before committing.

The best of both worlds

Small Town Murder is, on balance, the closest genuine match to MFM on this list — James Pietragallo and Jimmie Whisman cover one small-town murder a week with real research underneath the banter, and the show has a reputation for getting the comedy-versus-respect balance right in a way a lot of imitators don't manage. If you want a podcast that feels like it's in the same lane as My Favorite Murder rather than reacting against it, start here.

Warmer, more personal, less comedic

Morbid, hosted by Alaina Urquhart (a former autopsy technician) and her niece Ash Kelley, sits closer to MFM's original register than Last Podcast on the Left does — conversational, personality-driven, humour woven through rather than built around. The forensic background gives it a different texture: less riffing, more "here's what actually happens to a body," delivered with the same friend-to-friend warmth MFM built its whole identity on. Apple ranked it the 10th most popular US podcast of 2024, which tells you the appetite for this specific tone hasn't gone anywhere.

If the comedy was never really the point

Some MFM listeners stayed for the community and the case coverage, not the jokes — and for that group, two shows worth trying drop the humour almost entirely. RedHanded, hosted by Hannah Maguire and Suruthi Bala, keeps the two-host conversational format but replaces comedy with sharper cultural and political analysis of the crimes it covers; it's won the British Podcast Awards Listeners' Choice three years running. Crime Junkie goes further in the other direction — a solo-narrated, victim-focused weekly anthology with essentially no personal digression at all. Neither will replicate MFM's specific chemistry, because that chemistry was always the actual product. But if you've realised the comedy was incidental to what you wanted, either is a legitimate next step.

Which one to start with

If you loved the jokes: Last Podcast on the Left. If you loved the balance: Small Town Murder. If you loved the friendship: Morbid. If you're honest with yourself and it was never really about the comedy: RedHanded or Crime Junkie. Most Murderinos end up with two or three of these in rotation rather than picking just one — which, if MFM taught listeners anything, is exactly the point.

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