These True Crime Podcasts Can Turn Anyone Into a Crime Junkie

Zianna Weston, MA
6 min readJan 18, 2022

If you’re obsessed with true crime, you HAVE to give these podcasts a listen.

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What are the best true crime podcasts?

There is no shortage of true crime podcasts, but these are the ones that stand out to me and keep me coming back week after week to get my true crime fix.

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Crime Junkie Podcast. Image courtesy of Crime Junkie Podcast.

Crime Junkie

This is the podcast that started my true crime obsession. My anxiety used to stop me from listening to and/or watching anything related to true crime because I would end up staying awake all night convinced that someone was going to murder me. But there was something about the Crime Junkie hosts’ voices that was so soothing that I was able to get into the stories without feeling immediately spooked.

Hosts Ashley Flowers and Brit Prawat tell a different story every week and they are broken down into these categories; MISSING, MURDERED, WANTED, MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF, SERIAL KILLER, INFAMOUS, and CAPTURED. Each episode usually focuses on one person’s story (sometimes two, or a whole group if they were all murdered by the same person) and gives a well-researched…

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Zianna Weston, MA

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