Best True Crime Podcasts on BBC Sounds (2026)
20 podcasts available on BBC Sounds — expert-reviewed and community-rated.
20 podcasts available on BBC Sounds
Top True Crime Podcasts on BBC Sounds
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The Missing Cryptoqueen
BBC journalist Jamie Bartlett tracks down Dr Ruja Ignatova, who persuaded millions to invest in OneCoin before vanishing without a trace.
Intrigue: Lockerbie
BBC Radio 4's investigative strand turns to Lockerbie — who was really behind the bombing that killed 270 people in 1988.
Matched with a Predator
BBC Disclosure's investigation into a predator who used dating apps to target and abuse women — the 2026 Best Serialised Podcast winner.
Where Is George Gibney?
A landmark BBC/Second Captains investigation into an Olympic swimming coach accused of abuse, who vanished rather than face trial.
Manhunt: Finding Kevin Parle
Ex-Flying Squad detective Peter Bleksley runs a live fugitive hunt for BBC Radio 5 Live, tracking a man wanted over two murders.
Stakeknife
BBC's Cover strand investigates Freddie Scappaticci, the alleged IRA double agent, and the British government's role in allowing murders to protect their asset.
Inside Murder Trial: Girl in the River
Journalist Jane MacSorley and advocate Thomas Ross KC unpack each day of the Caroline Glachan murder trial as it happens, live from BBC Radio Scotland.
I'm Not a Monster
A multi-award-winning BBC investigation into ISIS recruitment, told through the people who were pulled in.
Love Bombed: Wife Hunter
Reality TV star Vicky Pattison investigates romance fraud and extreme cases of love bombing — this season, a serial 'wife hunter'.
Assume Nothing: Murder at the Stables
BBC Radio Ulster's investigative strand re-examines closed cases with fresh eyes — this season, a murder at a stables.
World of Secrets: Searching for Soldier Dad
BBC World Service's global investigations strand — this season, DNA detectives track down British soldiers who fathered and abandoned children in Kenya.
Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial
BBC News NI's Kelly Bonner and Chris Buckler cover the trial of a man accused of murdering Natalie McNally in Lurgan in 2022.
Hunting the Whisky Bandits
BBC Disclosure reporter Sam Poling investigates the whisky cask investment scams exploiting Scotland's most famous export.
The Cruelty: Stolen Generations
BBC Radio Scotland's Davie Donaldson investigates historic Scottish care-system failures, building on his work solving the mystery of the Unknown Bairn.
Fairy Meadow
BBC Radio 4 revisits the 1970 disappearance of three-year-old Cheryl Grimmer from an Australian beach — a British family, an Australian cold case.
Shadow World: Stolen Years
BBC Radio 4's underworld-focused strand — this season, Stolen Years, examines lives derailed by crime and the institutions meant to prevent it.
Bad People
Dr Julia Shaw applies criminal psychology to real cases for BBC Radio 5 Live — murderers, fraudsters and internet trolls, explained.
Crime Next Door: The Cop, The Kidnap and The Killer
BBC Radio Stoke's true crime strand tells crime stories from specific UK neighbourhoods, series by series — this season follows a serving police officer's double life.
Strange But True Crime
BBC Local Radio's roundup of bizarre, brazen and little-known crimes from across England.
Fake Psychic
BBC Radio 4's short series on the man who claimed he could put 1960s America in touch with the dead — for a fee.
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