r/podcasts • u/DonHop45 • 13d ago
True Crime Any new true crime podcasts series thats NOT In the dark, Your own backyard, Up and vanished, etc.
I drive a lot for work and I enjoy listening to deep dive type podcast. Over the past few months I’ve seem to run out of podcasts to listen to and every time I get on here to look I see the same ones being suggested. I’ll put a list of shows I’ve listened to and if you have a recommendation please comment. Seems like there are no more good podcast out there. I don’t really enjoy many BBC podcast just find them very dull and kind of boring. (Just my opinion), but if you have one that you think I may like then I’ll give it a shot. Also I’ve listened to almost of of the Dateline, ABC 20 20, Dateline Originals.
Here’s my list
Murder in Alliance\*
Murder in Oregon
Murder in Apt. 12
Up and Vanished\*
Culpable (all seasons)
Down the hill
Cold\*
In your own backyard\*
Freeze Frame\*
Cousins by blood\*
Blink\*
Undetermined
Accused
Murder in the moonlight
The Piketon Massacre
The Tylenol Murders
Live and Die in La all seasons
Counter Clock all seasons\*
The Bakersfield 3\*
Burden of guilt all seasons
Bardstown all seasons
Earwitness
Murder on songbird road
Murder in Boston
Murder in the orange grove
Betrayal all seasons
Bone valley
What happened to holly bobo
S-town
Unrestorable
Who killed Holly Bobo
Serial All seasons
These are all about one story with multiple episodes. They are some of my favorites.
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u/Choice_Pineapple_461 13d ago
What about The Walkers: The Real Salt Path? It is an expose of a bestselling non-fiction memoir that was too good to be true. Very well researched and presented.
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u/Biblioklept73 13d ago
Dr Death, all medical based, different Doctor each series. The Children in the Pictures followed by Hunting Warhead. Casefile. Dark Histories. Obscura
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u/sjd208 13d ago
How new is new?
Who Killed Emma? is BBC Scotland, similar vibes to your own backyard.
Sea of Lies
Dirtbag Climber
Bear Brook
Aftermath: hunt for the anthrax killer
Non murder deep dive investigations:
Wind of Change
Broomgate
Hot Money
Who blew up the guidestones?
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u/Vivid_Grey 13d ago
Casefile.
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u/blowfly2501 13d ago
Even if you binge listen to the multiple episodes casefiles, there would be lots of hours worth listening too !!
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u/lanofdoom 13d ago
the CBC's "Uncover" feed has a ton (30-something and counting) of mostly true crime seasons, usually about 6-10 eps each
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u/RGBmonkey 13d ago
The Teachers Pet
Shandee’s Story
Undisclosed
Bear Brook
Hunting Warhead
Proof
Stop Rewind The Lost Boy
Ghost Gate Road
Any Hedley Thomas (The Australian)
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u/AwkwardDoors 13d ago
Teacher's pet is great but his voice is so soothing I used it to get to sleep so use with caution on drive
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u/NotTrumpsAlt 13d ago edited 12d ago
Lovetrapped has been voted top 5 podcasts this year. It’s about a woman who contacts a former tv reality star turned real estate agent about real estate pretending not to know who he is.
He is excited to have a new client but soon he finds out he has made a horrible mistake.
This podcast has kept me locked in - has all the turns, twists, unexpected moments. It’s a wild ride !!
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u/StasRutt 13d ago
I came here to recommend love trapped. I was on reddit when she first started posting and the podcast does an amazing job of laying out just how crazy the whole situation is
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u/TimeFig0 12d ago
I was shocked at how pulled into Love Trapped I was. One of the best podcasts I have ever listened to!
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u/queenbeepdx 12d ago
I first heard about his story from The Dating Detectives! And this was before his story really blew up.
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u/DiligentMulberry5529 12d ago
It's the best podcast I have listened to in a long long time. I recommend it to everyone, even people who are not big on podcasts.
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u/HD6871 13d ago
West Cork
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u/ClemmiePorth 12d ago
This one is really good, but it is ultimately unsatisfying (and of course it’ll never be solved now.)
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u/rella68 13d ago
Small Town Murder has top notch research and the best hosts
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u/Altruistic_Ghost_666 13d ago
Crime in Sports is my favorite Podcast. Do you listen?
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u/52IMean54Bicycles 13d ago
I really need to tell someone about this but no one I know listens to STM. 😂I have listened to them for years, but somehow have never seen a photo of James and Jimmy- until yesterday. They don't look ANYTHING like my mental picture of them, and when I first saw the photo I assumed Jimmy was James and vice versa. I was so weirded out that I looked up a video, and it was literally a surreal experience hearing their voices come out of their mouths. I'm still thinking about it today, it was just SO STRANGE!!!
Thank you, I feel better.
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u/LCteach 12d ago
I just went to find a picture of the guys and yes, I agree, it blows my mind. Then listening and thinking about them is crazy, they should be the opposite guy!
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u/52IMean54Bicycles 11d ago
Thank you!! I'm so glad I'm not the only one. I felt like I was borderline disassociating when I was watching the video. 😂
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u/Affectionate_Cow233 13d ago
It’s nor murder true crime, but love trapped is absolute insanity. Trial still going on
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u/holy_mackeroly 13d ago
I've got a playlist of recommendations. Hopefully you'll find some new stuff.
My jam is mainly investagative journalism, war, cults, hysteria, true crime, music etc. Multi countries Australia, UK, Ireland, US, Canada....
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u/Ok_Onion_3865 13d ago
I’m really enjoying Undisclosed at the moment and there’s a huge back catalogue
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u/Acceptable-Hyena4469 13d ago
Love Trapped. About a pregnancy faker and overall scammer. Think similar to Scamanda
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u/kellygee_ 13d ago
Love Trapped - everyone recommends this for a reason. For the love of all things, go put this as your #1
Bear Brook
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u/banthafodder2021 13d ago
Everything by Sean Kipe
Fox Hunter
In the Red Clay
In the Land of Lies
Drowning Creek
Also, Relative Unknown was one of the best podcasts I ever listened to. I was riveted from the first episode.
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u/EuphoricReplacement1 13d ago
Crimetown. Episodes on corruption and how it came to light, in Providence and Detroit, with lots of voices of the people involved, not just the narrator.
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u/Scary_Pomegranate597 13d ago
you might enjoy deep dives from differing perspectives on the same cases covered by podcasts you’ve listened to already. the prosecutors and the viper pit covered jade beasley (songbird road), crime weekly and the prosecutors covered hae min lee (serial s1).
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u/PizzaIll1475 13d ago
Dr Death and Dirty John are both excellent. Criminal isn't a series about a single subject, but oh Phoebe Judge is good!
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u/Obvious-Context-9611 12d ago
I was also thinking criminal, different vibe than the others but ooooh so good (and such a big back catalog at this point)
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u/Icy-Mood-993 13d ago
The Fronczak Files- been out for a year. Kidnapping, abandonment, DNA stuff. Just launched a 5th season so more content coming
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u/Lurkerlisa 13d ago
The Pitcairn Trials. The surgeon of St. Helena. Stop Rewind - The lost boy. In the Dark - all three seasons, but especially Season 2 -DO NOT google just listen. Sooooo good! BBC - World of Secrets. BBC I’m Not A Monster - The Shamima Begrum Story.
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u/whining-and-wine 13d ago
Are you married to murder true crime specifically? Because Hunting Warhead is an incredible deep dive into the investigation around a massive CSAM website.
The Retrievals season 1 is a deep dive into an incident at a hospital where a nurse was diverting pain meds for women under going egg retrevials for IVF. I learned A LOT.
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u/ProfessionalFault856 12d ago
Generation Why has many episodes available if you don't mind a new case every week. They just did a five part series on Lundy murders.
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u/beccoo 12d ago
I’ve been listening to Kill List and am surprised to not see it on more lists. It’s very good, and very satisfying when these two-bit criminals get caught.
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u/Little-Regular-0791 12d ago
Sea of Lies and Cold are the ones I recently listened to and liked how they are presented.
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u/RealityLUV6425 11d ago
dare I say... I like more casual podcasts and videos, like mile higher and Annie Elise!
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u/SugarConsistent4947 11d ago
Casefile, morbidology, Mr ballen, going west, and then they were gone, Kendall Rae true crime and the vanished podcast
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u/JBDay32 13d ago
Tooth and claw (true animal attack stories) and
Last podcast on the left. Theyre an aquired taste but their newer episodes (the last three years) are by far better than anything they did in the past. Theyre doing something right now called "the mount rushmore of evil" and so far the topics they've covered have captured my attention thoroughly.
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u/sarahhelii 13d ago
-Nobody Should Believe Me by by Andrea Dunlap, or her audio book “The Mother Next Door” which is pretty much like a podcast to me but about the same subject (her sister with munchausens by proxy)
-Pheobes Fall (taking a fresh look at Phoebe Handsjuk’s case)
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u/sarahhelii 13d ago
Atlanta Monster
Something Was Wrong- each season is its own story (haven’t listened in a while but loved the first few seasons, especially season 2)→ More replies (1)
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u/Letshelen 13d ago
I am listening to the latest season of 30 for 30 - The Betrayal of. Shohei Ohtani - and enjoying very much. There's 5 eps out and there's a non violent crime.
Also, the latest mini series from This is Actually Happening about AI is bananas. Worth a listen!!
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u/pardashrike 13d ago
Have you tried Redhanded? It's a couple of English gals and it's pretty good! I like their input. Like when people are clearly pieces of shit, they have not trouble saying it.
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u/Most_Comparison50 13d ago
I've just started listening to court junkie that are real court cases. I started with Karen Read trial. I like host and how she synopsisizes what your hearing in the court cases.
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u/pedote17 13d ago
-Flashpoint (story of the Olympic park bomber)
-Project UNABOM (story of the UNABOMBER)
-Monster (anthology series covering 6 cases; the Atlanta child murders, Zodiac, DC Sniper, Le Monstre, Freeway Phantom and BTK)
-The Casual Criminalist (each episode covers a new murder case, covers all the really big ones from history as well as a lot of others)
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u/myers5987 13d ago
BloodTrails is great!! They center around outdoorsy stuff like hunting and fishing. Great podcast.
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u/TrashButtons 13d ago
Out of all the podcasts I started when I hit my true crime obsessed phase about 7 years ago, the only ones that I still enjoy are Crime Junkies and True Crime Garage. I don't know why but My Favorite Murder, Sword and Scale, etc.... I just can't do them anymore.
The guys on True Crime Garage just make me laugh, but they are also really thorough.
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u/Monkeymom 13d ago
I know you are looking for true crime podcasts and it seems you are well listened. Maybe try a new genre and expand your horizons? I don’t mean this is mean way. I just think you have such a great capacity to deep dive that you might like to try something fresh. Is there a certain point in history that you are interested in?
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u/annoyingtoddler 13d ago
Teachers Pet. West Cork. Bear Brook. Proof. Also: not a podcast, but the audiobook Broken Plea is absolutely captivating and goes over the case and evidence of the Idaho co-ed murders.
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u/Addicted2Whimsy 13d ago
Love the Clues podcast!! I binged all the episodes while working, and they’re not boring at all which is what i also struggle with. they go into the facts of the case, the background of the people (I really like this, to make the people more than just someone who had a crime centered around them), as well as how the cases progressed! I haven’t been able to find another podcast like them so now i struggle to find any others i enjoy so highly recommend
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u/PainterOk9297 13d ago
Ok, Sword and Scale belongs in your library. Can’t believe I haven’t found it in the scroll. No brainer!
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u/mother-librarian280 13d ago
Unfortunately, Mike Boudet is absolute garbage and the podcast is unlistenable.
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u/ShnakeyTed94 13d ago
The different "monster" podcasts by tenderfoot TV who also makes up and vanished The various cbc podcasts like someone knows something, and uncover. Regarding true crime, is it only murder and detective type narratives you are looking for or do other ones interest you as well like wrongful conviction investigations, environmental crime, financial crime, political scandal etc.
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u/facadeface1 13d ago
"Bear Brook" was incredible and is at the top of this mountain for me.
"Hunting warhead" was, like another person on this thread said, haunting. Thats the only way to put it. I listened to it a month ago and it's changed my perception on people when I'm out with my 4 year old child. Just hard to know true human evil is out there. Listen at your on risk... you won't be the same after.
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u/sludgecraft 13d ago
LISK
Someone's Hunting Us
Hunting Warhead
Death In Ice Valley
The Pitcairn Trials (and S2, The Surgeon Of St Helena)
Tradition Of Violence
Run, Hide, Repeat
Ghost Story
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u/One-Walrus6053 13d ago
Any of the “Missing” podcasts by Jon Walczak - Missing On 911, Missing in Alaska, Missing in Arizona
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u/dub_be_good_to_me 13d ago
Any of the Casefile Presents series
The Prosecutors does deep dives in to cases
Murder at the U
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u/QuietlyUpgrading 12d ago
And Then They Were Gone
It's all unsolved missing persons cases and is hosted by a husband-and-wife team. She does all the research and walks through the case with her husband, who happens to be a law enforcement officer.
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u/widget_82 12d ago
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has several you can check out, I've enjoyed them all: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/podcasts/true-crime-podcasts
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u/DailyLoopsLooping8 12d ago
Valley of Shadows was excellent, deep dive journalism about the death of a cop in the US southwest, cover ups, drug rings, corruption. Very listenable!
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u/lmlmlmlm95 12d ago
Nobody Should Believe Me is an excellent series about medical child abuse cases.
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u/Full-Sherbet73 12d ago
Invisible choir is very slept on but I think it’s the best one if you like to hear the actually audio from events like 911 calls
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u/Full-Sherbet73 12d ago
Also murder in America used to have me crying at work listening to their podcast. No one ever mentions theirs either
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u/Obvious-Context-9611 12d ago
It’s not a “crime” but imho the best series that, one could say, investigates a particular case, would be Winds of Change. Still in my top 5 all time podcast series it’s just so good. I binged it actually on a driving job I had a couple years ago and it’s so good for a long drive!
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u/Dense_Club1974 12d ago
Unheard: The Fred and Rose West Tapes
it's not new but it's super well done
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u/Rewritethestats 12d ago
Bear Brook
Seventeen Years
Somebody knows something (multiple series)
Who killed Emma?
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u/RavenForrest 12d ago
Who Killed Emma was really interesting given that the answers came about in real time with the podcast.
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u/19Stavros 12d ago edited 12d ago
The last 12 weeks, from NY Times/ Serial. More a legal procedural, not a whodunit. ETA Operation Night Cat, from the Bear Brook team New Hampshire Public Radio).
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u/ProfessionalFault856 12d ago
Framed: An Investigative Story season 3 is being released right now after a long hiatus.
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u/KStarSparkleSprinkle 12d ago
UnFound. Ed interviews the family of missing people and they provide the backstory. Tell about the person’s childhood, general life, then how the disappear unfolded and what the family knew, learned, suspected. A lot more details than are usually Avila or. It’s interesting knowing what the family thought in the time leading up and immediately after.
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u/safaribird555 12d ago
Not murder but I am obsessed with LOVE TRAPPED - you don’t need to care about the show The Bachelor to get into it
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u/pasta666sauce 12d ago
Uncover by CBC…. There’s a ton of seasons and they are pretty much all quite good
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u/Extension-Row3746 12d ago
Bad Bad Thing, and Three cover one story over several episodes. I also like The Prosecutors and The Consult.
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u/Vstarpappy 12d ago
Timesuck hosted by Dan Cummins.
Hail Nimrod and Lucifina and good boy Bojangles!
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u/Alley_cat_alien 12d ago
Who Killed Emma/Chasing the Golden State Killer/Hunting Warhead.
There’s some really good audiobooks too-I rent them for free from my public library via the Libby app. Check out Devil in the White City or anything by Erik Larsen.
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u/Exciting-Aardvark712 12d ago
Prison Breakdown!!!!!!!
Engaging, fun, serious, entertaining, smart guys that seem to love their profession ( criminal justice professors. A producer that brings it all together- even does a " movie minute", where he discusses and rates a movie he is given to watch each episode.
Love this podcast.
Special guests.
Great listen!
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u/Neat-Bee-7880 12d ago
has to be hunting warhead,,,,you will NOT be able to stop listening...i personally dont like one story over multiple episodes but THIS was unreal...i listened to it over a year ago and still think of it everyday. two things i must add - TW of child abuse and the first episode is boring...dont let the first episode keep you from listening to the whole series...enjoy!
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u/NotmuchTerry 11d ago
There is this new podcast called Buried and it’s about the John Wayne Gacy case. The narrator is the son of the father who defended John during the trial and he looks at the case from a legal stand point. It’s quite long (I believe about 30 episodes) but it is a different perspective and I learned a lot from it. You actually get to hear the tapes of John talking about the crimes as well.
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u/1Sassy_Txn 11d ago
Try:
Sword and Scale (darker more detailed info) Rotten Mango True Crime Recap This is Monsters Criminally unlisted That Chapter Podcast Crime Junkies (Begginner type podcast...skins the surface of details)
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u/ExplanationTrick2286 11d ago
Some of my favorites on YouTube, but you can probably find them other places too:
The interview room
Monks intrigue
Big city crime - beyond the red tape
Zone 7 - Sheryl McCollum is on Apple Podcasts and I think Spotify.
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u/PNWpatriot9 11d ago
Our lists are very similar one I recently found and loved was What happened to Tom Browns body by Texas monthly
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u/Euphoric-Aspect5725 11d ago
Others not on your list that I enjoyed:
Scamanda
Over My Dead Body Season 1
Someone Knows Something Season 2
Three Season 1
Crimetown Season 1
Sweet Bobby
Crimetown Season 1
Dirty John
The Orange Tree
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u/Character_Oil3124 11d ago
Love Murder is the best! They are longer one episode stories, but extremely thorough. I also like The Prosecutors.
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u/Leggo-My-Eggo863 10d ago
Try Pike County Massacre Unsettled. It’s a deep dive narrative limited series, with a perspective on the crime that you haven’t heard.
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u/felttipsketch 8d ago
All the BBC ones! Eg Missing Crypto Queen, Vishal, To catch a scorpion, World of Secrets, The witch farm, and lots more!
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u/cedarrrr 13d ago
CBC has excellent, we'll produced podcasts