The Best True Crime Podcasts to listen to in 2026
Are you obsessed with True Crime? Here you will find the ultimate list of the best true crime podcasts, featuring crime news. There are a ton of great true crime …
Phil Spector | Lana Clarkson
Phil Spector shot actress Lana Clarkson dead at his California mansion on February 3rd 2003. He shot her after meeting her hours earlier in an LA nightclub. Following a mistrial, …
Edmund Kemper
Edmund Kemper, aka the Co-ed Killer, is a serial killer who murdered 8 people in 1972-73, including his own mother. Kemper also murdered his grandparents in 1964, when he was …
Jill Dando
Jill Dando was a British celebrity who was fatally shot outside her home in Fulham, West London, on April 26th 1999. She was a newsreader, broadcaster and journalist. Barry George …
Andrea Yates
Andrea Yates killed her five children by drowning them in the bathtub on 20th June 2001. She was originally found guilty of capital murder and sentenced to life in prison. …
BTK Killer | Dennis Rader
Dennis Rader, aka the BTK killer, is an American serial killer who killed ten people between 1974 and 1991. He sent letters to the police and newspapers with details of …
Ian Huntley | The Soham Murders
Ian Huntley was a British killer who killed 2 girls. Huntley murdered 10-year-old Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman on August 4th 2002. Their bodies were discovered by a local gamekeeper …
Julie Ward
Julie Ward was in Kenya when she was murdered in September 1988. Her partial remains were discovered by her father. Ward’s body had been dismembered and burnt. Although there have …
Rodney Alcala
Rodney James Alcala was an American serial killer who murdered at least 8 women between 1971 and 1979. Alcala appeared on The Dating Game, a dating game show Rodney Alcala …
Drew Peterson
Drew Peterson is a retired police sergeant who was convicted of the 2003 murder of his third wife, Kathleen Savio. She was killed two months after their divorce was finalised. …
Olof Palme
Olof Palme was a prominent political figure in Sweden who was assassinated in 1982. Palme was the leader of Sweden’s left-wing Swedish Social Democratic Party. He was also the Prime …
Ricky McCormick
Ricky McCormick was a homicide victim whose body was discovered in Missouri on 30th June 1999. The circumstances of his death and the mysterious notes collected at the scene make …
Aileen Wuornos
Aileen Wuornos was one of the most famous female serial killers. She killed seven men by shooting them in America in 1989 and 1990. She later claimed the murders were …
Jodi Arias
Jodi Arias was convicted of first-degree murder for the killing of Travis Alexander on 4th June 2008. He was stabbed more than 20 times, had been shot in the head …
Zodiac Killer
The Zodiac Killer was a serial killer who is confirmed to have murdered 5 people in the 1960s. Zodiac Killer has claimed to have killed 37, and two victims survived …
Betty Gail Brown
On 27th October 1961, Betty Gail Brown was discovered murdered in her car on the Transylvania College campus. Her body was discovered at 3 am in the front seat of …
Susan Wright
Susan Wright is a convicted murderer. She was convicted of the first-degree murder of her husband, Jeff Wrigh,t in 2004. He had been stabbed 193 times, all over his body. …
Mary Schlais
Mary Schlais was killed on 15th February 1974. She was killed just two hours after attempting to hitch a lift from Minneapolis to Chicago. Mary was discovered 90 miles away …
Charles Chuck Morgan
Charles C Morgan, also known as Chuck Morgan, disappeared twice during 1977. In May 1977, Charles was found dead in the desert. Although his death was ruled a suicide, many …
Roy Whiting | Sarah Payne
Roy Whiting is a British murderer who abducted and killed Sarah Payne. He was later found guilty of the murder of 8-year-old Sarah Payne in June 2000. Sarah was killed …
Richard Ramirez
Richard Ramirez, aka the Nightstalker, was a serial killer. He committed a string of home invasions, rapes and murders from 1984 to 1985. He was sentenced to death and showed …
Elizabeth Short | Black Dahlia
Elizabeth Short, aka Black Dahlia, was murdered on the 15th of January 1947. She had been mutilated and severed at the waist, with the two halves posed a foot apart. …
Scott Peterson
Scott Peterson is a convicted murderer. He was convicted of killing his wife, Laci Peterson and their unborn child, Conner. Scott was found guilty of the first-degree murder of Laci …
Jeffrey Dahmer
Jeffrey Dahmer is a serial killer. He sexually assaulted, murdered and dismembered 17 boys and young men between 1978 and 1991. Dahmer is also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or …
Melanie Hall
Melanie Hall went missing on 9th June 1996 after a night out with her boyfriend at a local nightclub. She was declared legally dead in November 2004. Her remains were …
Pauline Robbin Burgett
Pauline Robbin Burgett was found dead in her bedroom in her family’s duplex on 12th March 1978. She had been beaten with a blunt object and stabbed and might have …
Gertrude Baniszewski | Sylvia Likens
Gertrude Baniszewski aka The Torture Mother was convicted of first degree murder for the killing of 16 year old Sylvia Likens, who died on 26th October 1965. Sylvia was a …