Best Binge-worthy Podcasts
Serialized stories you cannot stop at one episode
48 podcasts — ranked by binge factor
The Thing About Pam
True crime fans who want jaw-dropping courthouse drama; anyone who likes watching a case unravel in real time as new evidence emerges; fans of courtroom true crime with an extraordinary villain at its centre.
Dirty John
True crime fans who love psychological manipulation, con artists, and domestic crime stories with high personal stakes.
Dr. Death
True crime fans interested in medical crime, institutional failure, and white-collar predators — compelling for anyone who has ever trusted a doctor blindly.
West Cork
True crime fans who love atmospheric investigative journalism, Anglo-Irish tensions, and cases that remain unresolved and fiercely contested decades later.
Up and Vanished
True crime fans who enjoy amateur investigators uncovering new leads in real time; those who want a sense of participatory investigation.
Bag Man (MSNBC)
Political history fans; true crime listeners who want to understand how American power insulates its criminals; anyone surprised that Watergate wasn't the only White House crime happening simultaneously.
Suspect (NPR/Embedded)
True crime fans who want journalism-grade investigation into systemic racial injustice; listeners who followed In the Dark and want more journalism-led true crime.
Uncover (CBC)
True crime fans interested in cults, coercive control, and how dangerous organisations hide in plain sight; those who want original reporting rather than documentary recaps.
The Teacher's Pet
True crime fans who like journalism-driven investigations with massive real-world impact; anyone fascinated by domestic crime and institutional failure.
Bone Valley
True crime fans who care deeply about wrongful conviction, prosecutorial failure, and the fight to free innocent people; fans of In the Dark will find this essential.
Cold
True crime fans who appreciate methodical investigative journalism and are prepared for deeply upsetting content involving family violence.
The Retrievals
True crime fans interested in medical crime, systemic bias, and the treatment of women in healthcare; essential for anyone who has ever been dismissed by a doctor.
Wisecrack
True crime fans looking for something genuinely new and formally innovative; fans of dark comedy who want real substance behind the laughs.
Believed
Listeners who want to understand systemic institutional failure, survivor stories, and how Nassar's abuse was enabled so long; essential for anyone working in safeguarding or sports.
In the Dark
Listeners who want journalism-grade investigation into wrongful convictions, systemic racism, and institutional failures — more 60 Minutes than true crime thriller.
The Lady Vanishes
A journalist and a daughter search for answers about a missing Australian schoolteacher
Wind of Change
True crime-adjacent listeners interested in espionage, Cold War history, and one of the most stranger-than-fiction investigations of the podcast era; fans of Patrick Radden Keefe's journalism.
Bear Brook
True crime fans fascinated by forensic science, DNA technology, and cold cases with a genuine scientific payoff.
Your Own Backyard
Listeners who want investigative true crime with real-world consequence and single-minded, passionate focus from a creator who refused to let a case die.
Casefile True Crime
Listeners who prefer documentary-style narration with high production standards and zero filler; purists who want the facts and nothing else.
Slow Burn (Slate)
History buffs and true crime fans who want political crime; listeners who want to understand how America gets to defining moments of corruption and crisis.
Crimetown
True crime fans who want novelistic, character-driven storytelling about organised crime and institutional corruption; listeners who want something that feels as much like great drama as documentary.
Scamanda
True crime fans fascinated by con artists, medical fraud, and the psychology of long-term deception within close-knit communities.
Serial
Anyone interested in journalism, legal procedure, and deep investigative dives into morally ambiguous cases with no easy answers.
RedHanded
True crime fans who want their listening to come with critical analysis of gender and power; UK and Ireland listeners; anyone who feels the mainstream genre ignores social context.
Running From Cops
True crime fans who want media criticism alongside investigation; listeners interested in how crime is constructed and sold as entertainment, and the real people left behind.
MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories
True crime fans who love variety and unexplained mysteries; popular with fans of 'unexplained' content alongside traditional true crime.
Accused (Cincinnati Enquirer)
True crime fans who want newspaper-quality investigative journalism in podcast form; listeners who want real wrongful conviction advocacy from professional journalists with institutional backing.
Monster: DC Sniper
True crime fans who remember the Beltway sniper attacks and want a comprehensive adult examination; listeners interested in the relationship between domestic violence and mass murder.
To Live and Die in LA
True crime fans who enjoy investigative journalism with a strong sense of place and cinematic atmosphere; listeners who followed the Up and Vanished active investigation format.
The Girlfriends
True crime fans interested in the psychology of women connected to violent men; listeners who want to understand the role of gender in criminal relationships.
True Crime Obsessed
True crime fans who love documentary recaps and want an entertaining, funny companion to the most talked-about true crime films and series.
Deep Cover
True crime fans interested in drug enforcement, undercover policing, and the grey areas of law enforcement ethics; those who want crime stories from inside the machinery rather than outside it.
Morbid
True crime fans who enjoy real forensic expertise delivered with warmth and humour; those who want both depth and a sense of fun.
You're Wrong About
True crime fans who want rehabilitation of misrepresented stories; listeners interested in media criticism and the gap between how crimes were reported and what the evidence actually showed.
American Scandal
History and current affairs enthusiasts who want true crime-style storytelling applied to institutional corruption and political failures.
The Dropout
People interested in tech fraud, startup culture, and white-collar crime; fans of The Dropout TV series who want the deeper journalism behind it.
Dateline NBC
Fans of network true crime TV who want that polished, accessible storytelling on demand; great for newcomers to true crime.
All Killa No Filla
True crime fans who appreciate British humour; listeners who want a fun but not flippant take on serial killers from two professional comedians who clearly care about their subject.
Breakdown (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
True crime fans who want newspaper-grade investigative journalism; listeners interested in Georgia criminal justice; those who appreciate institutional accountability journalism.
A Killing on the Cape
True crime fans interested in forensic DNA evidence, New England crime, and the question of whether mass DNA collection to solve a single murder is a proportionate response.
The Line (LAist / LA Times)
True crime fans interested in police accountability, systemic racism, and institutional failure; listeners who want investigative journalism targeting law enforcement rather than criminals.
The Last Days of August
True crime fans interested in online harassment, media ethics, and the intersection of sex work with public shaming; those who enjoyed Jon Ronson's book So You've Been Publicly Shamed.
Over My Dead Body
True crime fans who enjoy high-production narrative storytelling and want a varied anthology across different types of extraordinary cases.
Cults (Parcast)
True crime fans interested in psychology, religion, and how destructive movements are built; people who want to understand cult mechanics from the inside out.
Serial Killers (Parcast)
True crime fans who want comprehensive psychological portraits of killers rather than just crime scene summaries; listeners who want to understand 'why' alongside 'what happened.'
Tenfold More Wicked
True crime fans who love history; listeners who want cases they definitely haven't heard about; anyone who finds contemporary true crime's media saturation exhausting and wants genuinely fresh material.
Crime Junkie
True crime fans who want concise, well-researched episodes without excessive banter or filler; great for commuters.