Women are not just present in true crime fandom, they are the engine driving it, from podcast charts to Netflix queues to TikTok rabbit holes. What looks like a taste for grisly stories is, on closer ...

Do true-crime podcasts have the endurance to sustain their dominance in podcast ratings? Or will political and comedy ...

True crime podcasts are all the rage these days, with new shows popping up seemingly every week. The genre first exploded into popularity in 2014, and has only continued growing since, giving way to ...

What started as a way for a pair of two Illinois detectives to crowdsource tips to solve decades-old cold cases ended in a shocking discovery. Detectives Andrew Houghton and Matt Vartanian were ...

Whether it’s an elaborate scam or grizzly murder, true crime cases make for a gripping podcast subject. Here are some of the very best series to listen to on your next commute, from a deep dive into ...

Podcasts have cemented themselves as the wave of the future. Gone are the days of tuning into the radio or only having music to listen to through your headphones. Now, practically limitless audio ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Our society’s fascination with true-crime stories is nothing short of, well, suspicious. Perhaps it’s our ...

Working from a studio in a dimly lit basement in a Southeast DC home, Sarah Geary and Harley Adsit make the podcast Crime in Congress. And yes, there’s a gavel involved. Geary, a media manager at ...

On a bonus episode (first released on May 6, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: Buried in an evidence room, a DNA swab held the key to catching a serial sex offender. But no one tested it for years.

True crime podcasts are incredibly popular with listeners. But they’re a hard sell with advertisers. Roughly one quarter of the most-listened-to podcasts in the US are in the true crime genre – the ...

As podcasts enter the mainstream, radio operators and brands looking for growth would be wise to take note of where much of the momentum is coming from: women. They aren’t passive consumers, ...