tense podcasts

Crime Junkie

Audiochuck · True Crime

Full Body Chills pacing, case-a-week discipline, the biggest true crime show there is.

Darknet Diaries

Jack Rhysider · Technology

True stories from the dark side of the internet, told like heists.

Dirty John

LA Times Studios · True Crime

A whirlwind romance curdles into coercion in this landmark true crime serial.

48 Hours

CBS News · True Crime

CBS's long-running true crime institution, one case per episode.

Dateline NBC

NBC News · True Crime

Television's veteran true crime team, in audio, case after case.

Dateline Originals

NBC News · True Crime

Dateline's original serialized investigations, beyond the broadcast.

Dr. Death

Audible · True Crime

A charming surgeon leaves a trail of maimed patients. The system let him.

Limetown

Two-Up · Drama

Three hundred people vanish from a research town. A reporter starts asking why.

MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories

Ballen Studios · True Crime

Strange, dark, mysterious stories delivered with military precision.

Park Predators

Audiochuck · True Crime

Murders and disappearances in America's national parks.

Snapped: Women Who Murder

Oxygen · True Crime

Oxygen's cases of women pushed to the unthinkable.

The Shawn Ryan Show

Shawn Ryan · Society & Culture

Long-form sitdowns with operators, spies, and people who lived the classified life.

20/20

ABC News · True Crime

ABC's newsmagazine crime stories, told full-length.

Dateline: Missing in America

NBC News · True Crime

Dateline digs into missing persons cases that never made the broadcast.

Serialously with Annie Elise

Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios · True Crime

YouTube-native true crime with courtroom-level detail, weekly.

Up and Vanished

Tenderfoot TV · True Crime

A citizen investigation that helped crack a real cold case wide open.

Wolf 359

Kinda Evil Genius Productions, LLC · Science Fiction

Deep-space workplace comedy that quietly becomes a gripping drama.