Favourite True Crime Stories

Two favourites are probably The Staircase and S Town.

uncommon_name wrote: »

rawn wrote: »

I recently listened to Little Girl Lost: The Murder of Leann Holland. Excellent podcast with lots of twists and turns, still officially unsolved. I've also been listening/watching Marcia Clarke Investigates the First 48. She was the prosecutor in the OJ Simpson case and she reexamines some high profile cases, such as Casee Anthony. Really loved them, would love to see more of them, there's only 9 episodes I think.

There's 2 I haven't heard of. I must add them to my list to Cheers

No problem! The Marcia Clarke shows are hard to find online, i only found one place that streams it, I'm not sure if I can name it here but feel free to pm me! The podcasts are on Spotify, it's worth your time to watch/listen to both as they cover a lot of different material.

Teachers Pet
Someone Knows Something seasons 1 and 2
In the Dark (both seasons)
West Cork (Audible)

All fantastic podcasts that follow some really interesting and gripping stories.

I especially recommend In The Dark. Some great investigative journalism and the host Madeleine Baran is really easy to listen to!

thebull85 wrote: »

Can anyone reccomend a true crime podcast, preferably not an American one. Thanks.

Casefile
Teacher's Pet
Both are Australian....Casefile does deal with crimes from the US at times

uncommon_name wrote: »

Surprisingly S-Town is in my top 5. Very unusual and gripping storyline. I wish there was more like it.

I wouldn't have said that S-Town is true crime

"Casefile True Crime" really is fab. There is a new case every week. Australian bloke narrates it. Covers major crimes.

Some of my favourite episodes are:

Mr. Cruel (creepy sh1te)
The East Area Rapist. This is 5 episodes, gripping and harrowing stuff.
The Toy Box

Casefile is amazing. The Silk Road series was absolutely fantastic. He also did a great job on the Moors Murders.

East area rapist is probably my favourite true crime story. First listened to it on Casefile and have since watched multiple documentaries and podcasts about it. Probably helped that after almost 40 years that it was finally solved 6 months after I'd listened to it. Crazy how it went on for so long.

theoldbreed wrote: »

Casefile
Teacher's Pet
Both are Australian....Casefile does deal with crimes from the US at times

These are excellent. Also death in ice valley and ratline if you’re going down the podcast route. The ratline is about a nazi on the run after the war really interesting.

I’ll be gone in the dark is a book about the golden state killer or east area rapist as he was also known. Joseph DeAngelo was recently unmasked as him after some 40 years, casefile podcast also did a number of episodes on him before anybody knew his name.

If anyone is looking for something a little different try Dr Death. It's a true story of a surgeon in America that maimed and killed so many people in surgery that investigators genuinely thought he was an imposter. The bureaucracy of the American healthcare system saw him simply moved from hospital to hospital for years rather than deal with him. This was actually more recent than you'd think, he was only sentenced 2 or 3 years ago.