Podcasts
Podcasts are a great way to get your mystery fix while you work, commute, do the dishes, hula hoop, or stare blankly at your cork board of photographs, newspaper clippings, and red yarn. Here are some recommended podcasts for mystery & true crime lovers.
Breakdown
Breakdown is just that — the breakdown of the story and the systems. The largest newsroom in the southeast delivers investigations and true crime cases that you cannot find anywhere else.
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casefile
Fact is scarier than fiction. Casefile, a new true crime podcast. Each episode explores a new case. We cover the shocking, the terrifying, the strange, and the unsolved.
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Crime Junkie
Crime Junkie is a weekly true crime podcast dedicated to giving you a fix. Every Monday, Ashley Flowers will tell you about whatever crime she’s been obsessing over that week in a way that sounds like you’re sitting around talking crime with your best friends. The storytelling is straightforward and free of rabbit holes so the cases stay suspenseful and are easy to follow.
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Crime writers on...
The show is called Crime Writers On... and it all came together when we got some fellow writers together discuss the blockbuster podcast Serial. It's since morphed into a broader conversation about true crime, journalism, and pop culture.
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criminal
Criminal is a podcast about crime. Stories of people who've done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in the middle.
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Detective
The hit podcast from Investigation Discovery is back with an all-new season of stories from behind the yellow tape. This time, the storyteller is Detective Rod Demery, whose successful career is rivaled only by his dramatic personal life.
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Done Disappeared
Intrepid documentary filmmaker John David Booter sets out to find answers in the disturbing case of Clara Pockets, a Pennsylvania woman who went missing in 1987.
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In the Dark
In this season, we investigate the case of Curtis Flowers, a Black man from Winona, Mississippi, who was tried six times for the same crime. Flowers spent more than 20 years fighting for his life while a white prosecutor spent that same time trying just as hard to execute him.
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Serial
Serial is a podcast from the creators of This American Life, hosted by Sarah Koenig. Serial tells one story—a true story—over the course of a season. Each season, we follow a plot and characters wherever they take us. We won’t know what happens at the end until we get there, not long before you get there with us.
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S-Town
JOHN DESPISES HIS ALABAMA TOWN AND DECIDES TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. HE ASKS a reporter to investigate the son of a wealthy family who’s allegedly been bragging that he got away with murder. But then someone else ends up dead, sparking a nasty feud, a hunt for hidden treasure, and an unearthing of the mysteries of one man’s life.
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...These are their stories
THESE ARE THEIR STORIES is the podcast about network TV’s most enduring crime franchise and the real life cases that inspired their shows. We and a special guest look at an episode of SVU, Criminal Intent, or original recipe...then talk about the real life "ripped from the headlines" case that inspired the show.
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thinking sideways
Devin, Joe and Steve have always been curious. Though they don’t have any formal education to guide them, they sit down every week to discuss unsolved mysteries of all kinds: weird noises, strange website and horrific suicides that look a lot like murders. They take a skeptical approach, but never discount the truly odd nature of the world.
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True Crime Obsessed
Have you listened to "Serial" Season One more than once? Do you have notes in the margins of your copy of "Zodiac?" Could you have watched seven MORE episodes of "The Jinx?" Us Too! Each week hosts Patrick Hinds and Gillian Pensavalle break down one of these true crime classics in the funny, engaging, and interesting way that only two gorgeous theater nerds can.
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