Investigative podcasts

1Who Took Misty Copsey?IDIn September 1992, 14-year-old Misty Copsey goes to the Washington State Fair with her best friend.

2American ScandalWondery Every scandal begins with a lie.

3Bone ValleyLava for GoodIn Season 1 of Bone Valley, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gilbert King tells a story of a man, Leo Schofield, fighting to prove his innocence in the case of his wife Michelle’s murder.

4Aftermath: Hunt for the Anthrax KillerWolf Entertainment and CBCIn the wake of 9/11, anthrax-laced letters unleashed a new wave of terror across the nation.

5Alphabet BoysWestern Sound, iHeartPodcastsAlphabet Boys reveals the secret investigations of the FBI, DEA, ATF, and other alphabet agencies.

6American CriminalAirshipThe true crime history podcast that takes you inside the minds of some of our most notorious felons and outlaws, exploring the dark side to the American dream.

7AMERICAN GENOCIDEIllumiNativeAmidst an unprecedented federal investigation into hundreds of Native Boarding Schools and the 100,000+ children these institutions forcibly removed, one school has become the epicenter of controversy in America’s attempt to reckon with its dark history: Red Cloud Indian School.

8American PsyopMeidas Media NetworkIt’s 1985, and John Mattes, a public defender in Miami, meets his first client, who claims to be part of a CIA operation running guns in Central America.

9Bad Blood: The Final ChapterThree Uncanny FourShe was once the world's youngest self-made female billionaire.

10Bad Rap: The Case Against DiddyABC NewsFor decades, Sean "Diddy" Combs was among the most influential entertainers and entrepreneurs in hip-hop.

11Bad SeedsiHeartThe biggest black market you’ve never heard of is blooming right under your nose.

12Bag ManMSNBCIs it possible for an American Vice President to carry out a criminal enterprise inside the White House and have nobody remember?

13Bear BrookNHPRBear Brook, hosted by Jason Moon, is the critically-acclaimed true crime podcast from New Hampshire Public Radio.

14Believable: The Coco Berthmann StoryDear Media Coco Berthmann became internet-famous by sharing her story of surviving sex trafficking as a young child growing up in Germany.

15Big EnvelopesAudible

16Blood VinesFoxtopus Ink Blood Vines is a dark, true story from California’s wine country, where greed, lies, and murder swirled around one of the largest wine scams in U.S.

17BlowbackBrendan James and Noah KulwinA podcast about American Empire.

18Casefile Presents: The Easey Street MurdersiHeart, Casefile PresentsOne night in January, 1977 Susan Bartlett and Suzanne Armstrong were fatally stabbed in their home in Easey Street, Collingwood.

19CounterClockDelia D'AmbraIn order to tell the story of a crime, you have to turn back time.

20Cover Up: The Anthrax ThreatSony Music EntertainmentIn the mid-1970s, a man burst onto the evangelical scene with a shocking tale: claiming to be a former witch involved in human sacrifices among elite circles.

21Crooked City: Youngstown, OHtruth.media and Sony Music Production EntertainmentThis is a story about a woman who came to be known as The Horse Queen.

22Crypto KingpinsUSG AUDIO PODCASTS Once upon a time, there were two titans of the crypto industry: Sam Bankman-Fried, the child of Stanford professors and founder of FTX, and Changpeng Zhao, the nomadic founder of Binance.

23Devil in the DormWondery In late 2010, a middle-aged man moved into his daughter's college dorm and created what has all the hallmarks of a cult.

24Fallen Angels: A Story of California CorruptioniHeartA mysterious drug overdose at a posh Pasadena hotel leads our host and LA Times investigative reporter, Paul Pringle, into Los Angeles’ darkest corridors of power and wealth.

25Fiasco: VigilanteAudible

26Good CultKast Media River Donaghey grew up in a cult.

27Happy FaceiHeartPodcastsFor Melissa Moore, 1995 was a nightmare.

28Harsh Reality: The Story of Miriam RiveraWondery It was supposed to be a reality show with a twist.

29Head Number 7WonderyDonating your body to science is a final, noble act.

30In The DarkThe New Yorker In the Dark, hosted by Madeleine Baran, is an award-winning investigative-journalism podcast that started in 2016.

31Killing Dad: The Crystal Howell StoryAudio Up Inc.Welcome to Killing Dad Presents: The Miscreants, season two of our series investigating family murders.

32Lost In PanamaKast Media In 2014, Dutch friends Lisanne Froon and Kris Kremers disappeared while hiking a jungle trail in Panama.

33Missing in ArizonaiHeartPodcastsIn 2001, Robert Fisher killed his family, blew up their suburban home, and vanished in a remote Arizona forest.

34Mommy DoomsdayDateline NBCThe disappearance of two of Lori Vallow’s children in Rexburg, Idaho in September 2019 would expose a bizarre trail of death, devotion and Doomsday beliefs that captivated the nation… A haunting podcast from Keith Morrison and Dateline NBC.

35Nice White ParentsSerial & The New York TimesIf you want to understand what’s wrong with our public schools, you have to look at what is arguably the most powerful force in shaping them: white parents.

36Project UnabomApple TV+ / Pineapple Street Studios Decades after Ted Kaczynski was caught, society is still asking some of the same questions about him: Is Ted a genius who went astray?

37Proof: A True Crime PodcastRed Marble MediaProof: A True Crime Podcast is a serialized investigation into cases of potential wrongful conviction.

38Queen of the ConiHeart True CrimeFrom her Southern California mansion on a hill, Michelle Mack sends out a team of 12 young women that authorities call 'The California Girls' to steal millions of dollars in merchandise from high-end stores all over the country.

39Rachel Maddow Presents: UltraMSNBCAs a new authoritarian movement rises in American politics, stoked by one of the country’s most outrageous demagogues, there is an all-out international manhunt for an American traitor.

40RadicalTenderfoot TVOn March 16, 2000, two police officers were shot in one of Atlanta’s oldest neighborhoods.

41Radioactive: The Karen Silkwood MysteryABC NewsKaren Silkwood’s death 50 years ago this November continues to haunt Oklahoma and the nation.

42S-TownBrian ReedS-Town is a podcast hosted by Brian Reed from Serial Productions, a New York Times company.

43Scam FactoryWondery You know those messages that you get all the time, the ones that pop up out of nowhere?

44ScamandaLionsgate SoundAmanda is a wife. A mother. A blogger.

45Slow BurnSlateSlow Burn illuminates America’s most consequential moments, making sense of the past to better understand the present.

46Sold a StoryAmerican Public Media Millions of kids can't read well.

47Spy AffairWondery A charismatic Russian woman arrives in the US on a mission to improve relations between the two countries, and she soon makes some powerful friends.

48Texas Monthly True CrimeTexas MonthlyErik Maund had it all.

49The DropoutABC NewsMoney. Romance. Tragedy.

50The Evaporated: Gone with the GodsCampside Media & Sony Music EntertainmentCampside is proud to present 12 part series from our friends at Weekday Fun Production in association with Imagine Audio and hosted by Celeste Headlee.