TRUE CRIME PODCAST FAVORITES

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I’ve been consuming murdery podcasts while I paint for a long time now. I can’t listen to music while doing really detailed work (like stitch painting needlepoint canvases!) and prefer stories where I can half listen. I thought it might be helpful if I shared my current (and past) binges in hopes you might return the favor?

in no particular order, with a really short description of some podcasts I can remember liking:

• Gone South unsolved murder mystery from 1987 of a prominent female prosecutor

• American Girls a interesting look at the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders history

• Believe Her a maddening story of when the domestic abuse victim becomes the criminal

• Your Own Backyard the disappearance of college student, Kristin Smart

• The Yellow Car a woman spent decades trying to find the person who killed her mother

• Blame three seasons of three different murder investigations in Colorado

• Murder in Illinois did Christopher Vaughn really kill his family?

• Where is George Gibney? the search to find a former Irish Olympic swim coach who never stood trial for child sexual abuse

• Canary Washington Post investigates the sexual assaults of two women separated by decades

• The Lighthouse a Belgian backpacker goes missing in Australia

• Tom Brown’s Body unsolved mystery of a popular teenage boy in Texas

• To Live and Die in LA two seasons of investigating the disappearances of two different women

• Teacher’s Pet extensive investigation into a missing Australian woman

• The Village two seasons - the murder of gay men in Toronto and two trans women

and here are a few podcasts with weekly-ish episodes I really look forward to:

• Dateline duh.

• Cold Case Files again, a no-brainer

• Crime Junkie true crime galore

• Swindled fascinating stories of corruption and deceit

• The 11th varied and interesting stories, released on the 11th of each month

• Heavyweight (spotify only) funny, touching episodes where the host helps people go back and fix/right/amend/resolve parts of their pasts

• Crime Show (spotify only) “stories about people. and sometimes crime.”

• Deathbed Confessions (spotify only) and the stories behind them

so… what’ve you been listening to?