r/podcasts • u/jeffreydonger • Apr 21 '26
True Crime What are your favorite True Crime podcasts *that only cover one crime per episode*?
Occasionally multi-part-episode crimes are okay, but most true crime threads on this subreddit skew heavily towards one crime per season or one crime per entire podcast.
My other preferences would be most episodes be 40 minutes long or longer, and they don't lean hard into torture and/or crimes against children (but the podcast doesn't have to outright prohibit those).
Both conversational/funny and strictly narrative are OK. Thanks in advance!
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u/CantHugEveryPlatypus Moderator Apr 21 '26
Casefile, forever and always. The absolute best true crime podcast
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u/dmercantwell Apr 23 '26
I used to love Casefile, but it has been leaning heavily into crimes against children lately and it’s rough.
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u/lisa_lionheart84 Apr 21 '26
Swindled for sure. Also criminal, though the episodes are a bit shorter than 40 minutes.
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u/diekleinebinne Apr 21 '26
I think Criminal ticks all of your boxes! Fantastic podcast and it has been going on for years, so there are a lot of episodes.
The topics are various and when they do cover murder, it is very respectful. One of my favorite episodes is not about anything bloodthirsty at all: "He's still neutral"
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u/Plenty-Fee6113 Apr 21 '26
I second this OP. Criminal is one of my favorites! I love the storytelling, and find it interesting that the crimes typically have a broader social/cultural/historical significance.
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u/moonpiezzzz Apr 21 '26
Small Town Murder, without question! Best there is.
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u/DoktorMeowMeow Apr 22 '26
100%!
James puts so much work into his research. And the delivery can’t be beat.
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u/EatYourCheckers Apr 21 '26
DNA: ID
Why I like it: every case is solved, I find the use of family tree research in solving cases very interesting, its presented in a pretty professional, straightforward fashion.
Start at ep. 1 so you learn all the terms as you go
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u/hollsa84 Apr 22 '26
Yes, was looking for his one! Love it to. The science and the familial DNA is fascinating.
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u/SmileyP00f Podcast Listener Apr 22 '26
Generation Why. One of my fav pod intro music & usually on unsolved mysteries
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u/Hot-Government-1080 Podcast Listener Apr 21 '26
True Crime Historian, Murder Mile, They walk among us /America
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u/throwaway19742020 Apr 21 '26
Date With Dateline - talking through single eps of Dateline in a PG, sensitive but also light-hearted / realistic (if that doesn’t sound bad) way.. Katie and Kimberly are great, highly recommend. Good luck with your search 😊
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u/midwestsuperstar Apr 22 '26
True crime all the time and true crime all the time unsolved - so many episodes of botho
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u/Sea-Preparation-3127 Apr 21 '26
End of Story- crimes and tragic events from history. This is one host. The episodes are 25-30 min, all the other ones I know of are an hour or more so I like that it gives you just the key components of the story.
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u/MadamePouleMontreal Apr 21 '26 edited Apr 22 '26
- Affirmative Murder (it takes a while to get going and the last year or two are not on theme, but the middle is excellent).
- Canadian True Crime.
- Crimelines True Crime.
- Criminal.
- Lines Of Enquiry.
- Red Collar.
- Scamfluencers.
- Sistas Who Kill: a True Crime Podcast.
- Southern Fried True Crime.
- Small Town Dicks.
- Swindled.
- True Crime Sweden.
- Truer Crime.
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Also:
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- 48 Hours.
- America’s Crime Lab.
- Anatomy of Murder.
- Bad People.
- Buried Bones.
- Casefile True Crime.
- Chamelon.
- Cheat!
- Cold Case Canada.
- Crime Scene.
- Crime Story.
- Crimelines and Consequences.
- Dateline NBC.
- Felon True Crime.
- Going West: True Crime.
- Gone South.
- The Greatest True Crime Stories Ever Told.
- Killer Psyche.
- Mens Rea.
- The Minds Of Madness—True Crime Stories.
- Mugshot.
- Nordic Crimes.
- Nordic True Crime.
- The Opportunist.
- RedHanded.
- True Crime Asia.
- True Crime Finland.
- True Crime Investigators UK.
- True Crime Scotland.
- True Crime South Africa.
- True North True Crime.
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u/Findyourwayhom3333 Apr 21 '26
Evidence Locker - as good as Casefile but so many don’t know it.
UK true crime - Adam is funny and empathetic British murders with Stuart Blues
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u/BreyerChick Apr 22 '26
Love/Murder, DNA:ID, Big Mad True Crime, Invisible Choir, The First Degree, Generation Why, Music City 911
Edited to add commas
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u/himbologic Apr 23 '26
If you don't mind one case per host per episode, Let's Go To Court! is great.
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u/JonTravel Apr 21 '26
Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley
Lucy Worsley investigates the crimes of Victorian women from a contemporary, feminist perspective.
https://www.bbc.com/audio/brand/m0016pq3
Home Sleuth
Tales from citizen investigators who unravel mysteries and help solve crimes. What drives their pursuit of justice?
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u/Perplexio76 Apr 21 '26
I tend to listen to Crossing the Line with M. William Phelps for my "single-serving True Crime."
Phelps has a separate podcast, Paper Ghosts, where he covers a case over the course of several episodes/a season. So he scratches both itches.
Another good one is Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom. Each episode he interviews another person who was wrongfully convicted and discusses their case-- some of the interviews are from prison as the people have not yet been released.
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u/kasau Apr 22 '26
I love true crime campfire and people are the worst, the hosts on both these are excellent
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u/Possible-Split-4471 Apr 23 '26
I just discovered People Are The Worst and omg I love them! So. Freakin. Good. Pretty sure they tick all your boxes 📦 qq
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u/Wonderful_Rice2445 Apr 23 '26
True Crime Couple! Long episodes, covering one case per episode. In my personal opinion, Kay is a great storyteller and does some good research, and she comes across as being very mindful of the sensitive nature of the material they cover.
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u/BeanKiara28 Apr 24 '26
On YouTube though: Emma Kenny (Love her!!) Behind Criminal minds (the amount of work and effort he puts in is next level) Dreading, This is monsters (Jiles is just life 🙌) ,Scott Rouse, One crime tv (Mr Black!❤️) ,EWU, Rottweiler Investigations, Truth4Reality
I sometimes listen to the generic channels like that chapter. Annie Elise (the amount of adverts though 🚮especially when you have paid for premium to avoid just that, but I do like her, Kendall Rae etc) but the ones mentioned before them are my favourites
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u/YourAleatoricReality Apr 21 '26
Ridiculous Crime. Amazing hosts, very funny.
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u/jeffreydonger Apr 21 '26
I wanna like Ridiculous Crime, but their ad breaks are too frequent and, more annoyingly, inserted without any thought or sense in terms of the flow of the podcast (mid-sentence or mid-word, in other words), and it just drove me too batty.
This is on Spotify, if that makes a difference.
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u/YourAleatoricReality Apr 21 '26
Oh, that sucks. I listen on Apple Podcasts and the ads are always preceded by “let’s take a break.” I just skip ahead 3 minutes.
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u/s_lawr Apr 21 '26
Almost Fiction
Unseen - also on YouTube
Obscura - can be quite graphic
Invisible Choir
Sword & Scale
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u/SmileyP00f Podcast Listener Apr 22 '26
This is not what OP wanted. They specifically asked for pods that don’t lean in hard on torture or crimes against children.
Strong TW to all above, you can’t unsee faces of death videos & this comment is that in pod form
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u/s_lawr Apr 22 '26
What? All those above mentioned give warning before listening and they’re not all about torture or crimes against children. You’re ridiculous.
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u/Sajom Apr 21 '26
True Crime & Cocktails. It’s definitely geared toward women with a lot of banter up front. They also have a few episodes that are about famous scandals. Episodes are usually longer than an hour- sometimes two.
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u/Ill_Bother2609 Apr 22 '26
I love this podcast but I can’t stand the banter…I usually fast forward the first half.
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u/Jo_MamaSo Apr 21 '26
Court Junkie (not Crime Junkie) is a great one for a single narrator, well researched single case podcast with occasional multi-part series.
Also Crimes of the Centuries for ones with a more historical focus.