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2) Bear Brook In 1985, the remains of an adult and a child were discovered in New Hampshire's Bear Brook State Park. According to <a href="https://www.bearbrookpodcast.com/" id="29e29805-a111-39f4-ad20-ec3585873bbf"> the true crime podcast's promo video </a> , no one knew who the victims were after the bodies were found. But they weren't the only victimstwo more were discovered. If that sounds like <a href="https://www.womenshealthmag.com/life/g28627310/mindhunter-serial-killers/" id="52590909-1334-3b07-a2ef-019a64bf44b7"> the work of a serial killer </a> , well, that's because **spoiler alert** it is. Intrigued already? Ya should be, but if you need a bit more enticement, hear this: Bear Brook claims its cold-case analysis is changing how murders will be investigated forever. <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bear-brook/id1423306695?mt=2" id="b604583b-8d3b-31c3-afff-5501624c1960"> Listen Now </a> Courtesy of Bear Brook

3) Today In True Crime Need to get your daily true crime fix? Don't worry, Today in True Crime has got ya covered 365 days of the year. "Crime never takes a day off, and neither do we," the show touts. They cover a different true crime event in history, from the anniversary of an important case being solved to the end of a landmark trial to a serial killers birthday, analyzing each event's historical impact. You never know what to expectexcept truly enjoyable true crime content, of course. <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/2GmNzw8t4uG70rn4XG9zcC?si=Z9O-fMwFSdKKH8InA4KvnQ" id="34947d81-a60b-371f-a0fd-3825f8bd095f"> Listen Now </a> Courtesy of Today In True Crime

4) Hell And Gone Already binged Serial but need another Sarah Koenig-esque pod host in your life? (Lbr, you know you do.) Enter writer and private investigator Catherine Townsend, who examines unsolved deaths in small-town Arkansas. While Catherine doesn't interview the alleged killer of a high-profile murder case, she is on a similarly relentless search for truth as she dives headfirst into the cold case murder of Rebekah Gould, a popular college student killed in 2004. Now in <a href="https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/how-stuff-works/hell-and-gone" id="3fecf2ed-0634-3778-a541-1f388781ea44"> Hell And Gone </a> 's second season, Catherine takes on the mysterious death of Janie Ward in 1989. The 16-year-old high school student who died at a party in Marshall, Arkansas, and no one has been able to determine the cause of deathto this day. <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hell-and-gone/id1437808691" id="80c364fb-307e-31ab-a700-07eb08dafab5"> Listen Now </a> Courtesy Of Hell And Gone

5) Bardstown Bardstown, Kentucky, proclaims itself "Americas Most Beautiful Small Town," but something ugly lurks beneath its picture-perfect surface. Since 2013, the small, tight-knit community has been plagued with five unsolved murders. Now, investigative journalists Shay McAlister and Jessica Noll dig into the homicide cases to try to figure out what's really going on. In their search for answers, they uncover a grisly history of violence and fear in an otherwise quintessential American small town. <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bardstown/id1476392010" id="87e45de5-3654-338b-a01d-b416c7a328ae"> Listen Now </a> Courtesy of Bardstown

6) Red Handed If you're a cold-case-commitmentphobe who just isn't ready to devote hours of your life to one true crime investigation, Red Handed's got you, boo. British podcast hosts and pals Hannah and Suruthi love nothing more than jumping into what they call "all manner of macabre madness." The duo cover everything from notorious serial killers (plus ones you've never heard of) and bizarre whodunits, to hauntings, possessions, and disturbing mysteries. Since the topic changes every ep, you get all the creep, none of the commitment. <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/redhanded/id1250599915" id="86fc471f-3b27-378b-a4f7-e09723af545a"> Listen Now </a> Courtesy of Red Handed

7) Serial You can't have a list of the best true crime podcasts without the OG that (basically) started it all. The first season of Serial, hosted by investigative journalist Sarah Koenig, delved into the murder of Baltimore high school senior Hae Min Lee and the controversial conviction of her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed. Seasons two and three focus on an Army investigation during the Iraq War and the criminal justice system in Cleveland, Ohio. <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/serial/id917918570" id="ba5ba097-01e7-3f17-a4c3-f1d33d2ebf69"> Listen Now </a> Apple

8) S-Town This true crime podcast (a spinoff of Serial and This American Life) takes host Brian Reed to "Sh*ttown," Alabama. The serialized murder mystery features "a nasty feud, a hunt for hidden treasure, and an exploration of the mysteries of one man's life." Just try not to binge to the whole thing in one sitting, I dare you. <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s-town/id1212558767" id="7e3d2e77-aa4d-3cd6-a4ae-533e35a4d2e3"> Listen Now </a> Apple

9) My Favorite Murder No time to commit to a whole podcast season? No problem. My Favorite Murder, hosted by comedians Georgia Hardstark and Karen Kilgariff, hilariously examine a new true crime story every episode. So you can pop in to one episode and opt out whenever you feel like it. Just know, you might still get (slightly) addicted... <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-favorite-murder-karen-kilgariff-georgia-hardstark/id1074507850" id="461cea9a-f4b3-3933-a557-aa3215cc924e"> Listen Now </a> Apple

10) Southern Fried Crime If the "Murder" episode of The Office ("There has been a murder in Savannah!") were turned into a very serious true crime podcast, this would be it. Host Erica Kelley tells fascinating and often devastating true stories exclusively from the American South in Southern Fried True Crime. <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/southern-fried-true-crime/id1242028887" id="ecbf3645-7ece-38c6-aba7-60df95ad18ab"> Listen Now </a> Apple

11) The Last Days Of August Hosted by Jon Ronson, this podcast is all about the facts as it challenges everything you thought you knew about a recent true crime case: the suspicious suicide of Canadian adult film actress August Ames on December 5, 2017. Unlike other true crime podcasts (who shall remain nameless), this one never speculates or sensationalizes the crimebecause it doesn't need to. <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-last-days-of-august/id1258779354" id="aff6d2a0-7d43-39bc-a190-47521c0fcfe0"> Listen Now </a> Courtesy of The Last Days Of August

12) To Live And Die In LA This true crime podcast is a must-listen becauseget thisthe investigation into this crime just happened. Adea Shabani, a 25-year-old aspiring actress and model mysteriously vanished in February 2018. Shortly after, best-selling author Neil Strauss became a semi-accidental investigative journalist/podcaster while looking into her disappearance. Featuring a mix of Hollywood glamour and grisly details, you'll be hooked in the first episode. <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/to-live-and-die-in-la/id1453788965" id="79afd8fa-51bb-3f6d-ae11-04e99c868a86"> Listen Now </a> Apple

13) Missing &amp; Murdered: Finding Cleo This podcasts covers the stories of missing Indigenous women and children that often get overlooked in the mainstream media. Using Cleo Nicotine Semaganis as a kind of case story, Missing &amp; Murdered explains how the young girl was taken from her family in the 1960s and "re-educated" in a boarding school. If you're looking for a more politically charged true crime podcast, you've found it. <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/missing-murdered-finding-cleo/id1166556648" id="ad389251-1d7c-30e7-ac6e-f76510d5fa7f"> Listen Now </a> Apple

14) Generation Why Generation Why basically "pioneered the true crime genre in the podcasting world," when it released its first episode in 2012or at least that's what hosts Aaron and Justin say. Tbh, they're not wrong. With more than 300 episodes, they've covered it all, from unsolved murders and conspiracies to missing persons and mysteries. If you can think of it, there's probably an episode on it. <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-generation-why-podcast/id541481026" id="5e9762ff-2cff-326f-ae5b-71e9f61b4f23"> Listen Now </a> Apple

15) Serial Killers Binged the new <a href="https://www.womenshealthmag.com/life/a27334594/ted-bundy-trial/" id="f954d349-7637-3a62-a8d3-d79e8fe61e26"> Ted Bundy flick </a> and <a href="https://www.womenshealthmag.com/life/g28636594/mindhunter-cast-real-people-photos/" id="749cbb89-b5f2-3aeb-afee-defe7370fe43"> both Mindhunter seasons </a> on Netflix and <a href="https://www.womenshealthmag.com/life/g27343777/ted-bundy-movies/" id="cb9be031-135a-35c4-ad8b-b02e5e79793b"> still need to get your serial-killer fix </a> ? Here ya go. The name of this podcast pretty much says it all. Hosts Greg Polcyn and Vanessa Richardson lay out a compelling narrative in each episode that feels more like listening to an audiobook than podcast. So if you devoured books like Gone Girl, you'll be on the edge of your seat with each serial-killer story on this pod. <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/serial-killers/id1205030005" id="dff8d875-6fa8-327e-a562-78e46a56a103"> Listen Now </a> Apple

16) The Trail Went Cold If you've got cold-case fever (see what I did there?), you'll love The Trail Went Cold, created, written, and hosted by Robin Warder. Each episode leads listeners through a different cold case, going super in depth on these unsolved mysteries. Just prepare yourself to have more questions than answers when you're done. <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-trail-went-cold/id1084020770" id="78824911-b0ef-387a-a741-dd0729ab229b"> Listen Now </a> Apple

17) Uncover Hosted by investigative journalist Justin Ling, Uncover is a Canadian podcast that's ~uncovered~ three seasons of true crime, from the NXIVM sex cult to a bomb on Canadian Pacific Flight 21. The latest season, titled "The Village," explores a serial killer who terrorized Toronto's Gay Village from 1975 to 2018. <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/uncover-the-village/id1364665348" id="b1936d93-6b9c-36d3-ac23-a1f5a9c105b7"> Listen Now </a> Apple

18) Dirty John Yup, this is the true crime podcast that inspired the Bravo TV show of the same name. Reported and hosted by L.A. Times' Christopher Goffard, Dirty John tells a dark version of When Harry Met Sally. Successful interior designer Debra Newell meets John Meehan, a handsome man recently returned from Doctors Without Borders, and before she knows it, becomes entangled in a web of love, deception, and ultimately, survival. <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dirty-john/id1272970334" id="62a35027-1a5b-34c8-ac8f-910ebe1500ee"> Listen Now </a> Apple

19) Root Of Evil If you watched TNT's limited series I Am the Night, then you have to listen to its companion podcast, Root of Evil. Even if you didn't, you still should because the 'cast is super compelling. The podcast focuses on the brutal murder of Elizabeth Short, also known as The Black Dahlia, in 1947. Many believe she was killed by Dr. George Hodel, but the murder remains unsolved to this day. Sisters Rasha Pecoraro and Yvette Gentile, who just happen to be the great grand daughters of George Hodel (!!), take an unflinching look at their family history to try to figure out what really went down. <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/ua/podcast/root-of-evil-the-true-story-of-the-hodel-family-and/id1450277129" id="0f7c2650-c537-362b-ade3-e541bb88c969"> Listen Now </a> Apple

20) Criminal Hosted and co-created by Phoebe Judge, Criminal is an award-winning true crime podcast. If that's not reason enough to listen, the fact that each episode is thoroughly researched and tells the often overlooked human side of true crime stories should be. Since every episode investigates a different crime, you can listen at your leisure (well, kind of). <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/criminal/id809264944" id="68c839d6-8f84-3778-a84b-8c9100b1082c"> Listen Now </a> Apple

21) Someone Knows Something True crime but make it...Canadian? Yup, turns out Canada isn't all maple syrup and moose, after all. It's got its fair share of cold cases, too. Someone Knows Something dives into a different one on each of its four seasons, interviewing the loved ones and family members of the victims. Each season is made up of five 45-minute episodes, so you can definitely binge this in a single sitting. <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/someone-knows-something/id1089216339" id="ec9ef3f1-b48e-3aa3-a7ff-4aa34bdab4f9"> Listen Now </a> Apple

22) In The Dark This true crime podcast won a dang Peabody Award, so you know it's gotta be good. In its first season, reporter Madeleine Baran investigated the abduction of a young boy, Jacob Wetterling, that went unsolved for 27 years. In season two, In The Dark delved into the case of Curtis Flowers, a man who's been tried six times for the same crime and won every appealbut is still on death row. <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/in-the-dark/id1148175292" id="a0c75067-adbe-3bd5-ae37-1b1d1c08af61"> Listen Now </a> Apple

23) Atlanta Monster Couldn't get enough of <a href="https://www.womenshealthmag.com/life/a28833877/mindhunter-atlanta-child-murders-mother-response/" id="f1e245dc-e33a-322f-a74c-77ce35e206f9"> Mindhunter season two's portrayal of the Atlanta Child Murders </a> ? If so, scroll no further than Atlanta Monster. Host Payne Lindsey dives into the <a href="https://www.womenshealthmag.com/life/a28551986/atlanta-child-murders-wayne-williams-timeline/" id="9e0b0037-b7fd-3379-af1a-35c7f96ff07d"> Atlanta Child Murders </a> that terrorized the city nearly 40 years ago. Over the course of nine episodes, the self-described "citizen sleuth" investigates the disappearance or <a href="https://www.womenshealthmag.com/life/a28551986/atlanta-child-murders-wayne-williams-timeline/" id="e24763e1-5a56-3fba-a9f9-54a88bd273bf"> murder of more than 25 African-American children and young adults </a> . (Oh, and btw, <a href="https://www.womenshealthmag.com/life/a28601007/atlanta-child-murders-case-reopened/" id="328d9cd1-c643-3151-a691-13da3883207d"> all the cases were recently reopened </a> , adding another twist to this already twisted story.) <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/atlanta-monster-monster-the-zodiac-killer/id1324249769" id="1419898f-9f77-3eed-acd5-0bb8de8d54e3"> Listen Now </a> Apple

24) The Teacher's Pet If you're a Riverdale fan, then you'll be hooked on this true crime podcast that revolves around a popular high school teacher and his wife, Chris and Lyn Dawson. After Lyn goes missing, a dark story full of teenage student lovers and possible murder unfolds. Hosted by Hedley Thomas, The Teacher's Pet uncovers new evidence in a 36-year-old cold case. <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-teachers-pet/id1385379989" id="bd50135a-690b-3d36-a79e-4e05c408d4f1"> Listen Now </a> Apple

25) Dr. Death Just the name of this podcast could give you the goosebumps. Hosted by Laura Beil, Dr. Death tells the true story of Dallas neurosurgeon Dr. Christopher Duntsch. Everyone thought he was an amazing surgeonuntil his patients became his victims. As if that weren't crazy enough, eventually, other doctors started to notice... and that's when sh*t really hit the fan. <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dr-death/id1421573955" id="aef96ef9-df96-35a4-a94d-35465086048e"> Listen Now </a> Apple

26) Over My Dead Body Already love Dirty John and Dr. Death? Then get ready to get obsessed with the latest offering from the same team: Over My Dead Body. In its first season, host Matthew Shaer explores a murder case following the divorce of two attractive attorneys, Dan and Wendi. If all that's not enough to sell you, maybe these two words will: unexpected co-conspirators. <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/over-my-dead-body/id1447892344" id="d4e8ae73-76ae-3092-a3e8-8287355b144e"> Listen Now </a> Apple

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26 Best True Crime Podcasts You Need To Listen To After Watching Netflix's 'Tiger King'