Podcasts that feel like
Serial
Serial Productions & The New York Times · News · 134 episodes
The show that invented binge journalism: one story, told week by week.
If Serial hit the spot, these will too
The New Yorker · True Crime
Season-long investigations that changed real cases
The difference: Even harder-edged accountability reporting
Investigative reporting that has actually reopened cases, one season at a time.
Serial Productions · Personal Journals
From the Serial team: one story that becomes something stranger and sadder
The difference: A portrait, not a case
A tip about a murder unspools into a haunting portrait of one Alabama town.
NHPR · True Crime
A cold case unspooled season-style, with real consequences
The difference: One New Hampshire mystery
A cold case in the New Hampshire woods that rewrote how murders get solved.
ABC News · True Crime
A serialized fraud story with courtroom stakes
The difference: Corporate scandal, not murder
Elizabeth Holmes and the nine-billion-dollar lie, from first believer to final verdict.
Audible · True Crime
Season-long medical horror built on documents and survivors
The difference: A villain you watch coming
A charming surgeon leaves a trail of maimed patients. The system let him.
KSL Podcasts · True Crime
Exhaustive single-case reporting in the Serial mold
The difference: One missing woman, deeper archives
One missing woman, one season, and the most thorough case file in podcasting.
The Athletic · Sports
shares that obsessive, twisty feel
Sports mysteries investigated for real. The rare show that breaks actual news.
ABC News · True Crime
shares that twisty, restrained feel
ABC's newsmagazine crime stories, told full-length.
CBS News · True Crime
shares that twisty, restrained feel
CBS's long-running true crime institution, one case per episode.
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