twisty podcasts
Trust nothing. The kind of plotting that makes you rewatch the first act. Every show links to its kindred spirits. Find one you love, then follow the thread.
20/20
ABC News · True Crime
ABC's newsmagazine crime stories, told full-length.
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.
Our Fake History
PodcastOne · History
Historical myths put on trial: what really happened versus the story we tell.
Snapped: Women Who Murder
Oxygen · True Crime
Oxygen's cases of women pushed to the unthinkable.
The Dropout
ABC News · True Crime
Elizabeth Holmes and the nine-billion-dollar lie, from first believer to final verdict.
Against the Rules with Michael Lewis
Pushkin Industries · Society & Culture
Michael Lewis on referees, experts, and the people we stopped trusting.
Bear Brook
NHPR · True Crime
A cold case in the New Hampshire woods that rewrote how murders get solved.
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.
Revisionist History
Pushkin Industries · Society & Culture
Malcolm Gladwell re-examines things overlooked and misunderstood, one contrarian story at a time.
Rotten Mango
Stephanie Soo · True Crime
Stephanie Soo tells true crime like a friend who cannot stop researching.
Scamfluencers
Audible · Society & Culture
Con artists of the influencer age, unpacked scam by glorious scam.
Serial
Serial Productions & The New York Times · News
The show that invented binge journalism: one story, told week by week.
Homecoming
Gimlet · TV & Film
A caseworker, a shadowy program, and memories that don't line up.
Limetown
Two-Up · Drama
Three hundred people vanish from a research town. A reporter starts asking why.
Noble Blood
iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild · History
Royal history's bloodiest footnotes, delivered like bedtime stories with knives.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Athletic · Sports
Sports mysteries investigated for real. The rare show that breaks actual news.
The Prosecutors
PodcastOne · True Crime
Two prosecutors re-try famous cases with actual courtroom rigor.
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