Investigative podcasts

51Head Number 7WonderyDonating your body to science is a final, noble act.

52Hello, John DoeiHeartAt age 45, Steve Patterson made a shocking online discovery: his own missing person’s page.

53High StrangeCadence13, Tenderfoot TVThis season goes deeper into real encounters, credible witnesses, and the explanations that never seem to stick.

54Killing Dad: The Crystal Howell StoryAudio Up Inc.Welcome to Killing Dad Presents: The Miscreants, season two of our series investigating family murders.

55Lost In PanamaKast Media In 2014, Dutch friends Lisanne Froon and Kris Kremers disappeared while hiking a jungle trail in Panama.

56Missing in ArizonaiHeartPodcastsIn 2001, Robert Fisher killed his family, blew up their suburban home, and vanished in a remote Arizona forest.

57Mommy 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.

58Monster: Hunting the Long Island Serial KilleriHeartPodcasts and Tenderfoot TVA decade ago, filmmaker Josh Zeman was on the hunt for the country’s most elusive serial killer.

59My Friend DaisyiHeartPodcastsAfter 19-year-old Daisy De La O was murdered outside her Compton apartment, her friends and family looked to authorities to make an arrest.

60Nice 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.

61OBSCURUMiHeartPodcastsOBSCURUM is an investigative podcast series hosted by Gabe Lenners that explores an obscure side of rural America.

62Ozarks True Crimeeditaudio, Anne Roderique-Jones Ozarks True Crime is an editaudio Original investigative podcast based on true crime in the mysterious and oft-forgotten region of the Ozarks.

63Project 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?

64Proof: A True Crime PodcastRed Marble MediaProof: A True Crime Podcast is a serialized investigation into cases of potential wrongful conviction.

65Queen 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.

66Rachel 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.

67RadicalTenderfoot TVOn March 16, 2000, two police officers were shot in one of Atlanta’s oldest neighborhoods.

68Radioactive: The Karen Silkwood MysteryABC NewsKaren Silkwood’s death 50 years ago this November continues to haunt Oklahoma and the nation.

69RippleAmerican Public Media The largest oil spill in American history captivated the public's attention for the entire summer of 2010.

70S-TownBrian ReedS-Town is a podcast hosted by Brian Reed from Serial Productions, a New York Times company.

71SAD OLIGARCHRICH RUSSIANS KEEP DYING IN MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES Since January 2022, dozens of Russia's wealthiest oligarchs and power brokers have died suddenly.

72Scam FactoryWondery You know those messages that you get all the time, the ones that pop up out of nowhere?

73ScamandaLionsgate SoundAmanda is a wife. A mother. A blogger.

74ScamfluencersWondery You never really know someone…especially online.

75Slow BurnSlateSlow Burn illuminates America’s most consequential moments, making sense of the past to better understand the present.

76Smoke Screen: My Friend, the Serial KillerThe BingeSeven years ago, journalist Justine van der Leun received a letter that would change her life.

77Sold a StoryAmerican Public Media Millions of kids can't read well.

78Spy 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.

79SuspectWondery Suspect is an investigative series about mislaid justice and the kinds of weighty decisions that detectives, lawyers, and jurors make every day - decisions that, once made, are almost impossible to reverse.Season 3: Five Shots in the Dark follows Leon Benson, who spent 24 years in an Indiana state prison for the 1998 murder of a young man named Kasey Schoen.

80Texas Monthly True CrimeTexas MonthlyErik Maund had it all.

81The DropoutABC NewsMoney. Romance. Tragedy.

82The Evaporated: Gone with the GodsCampside Media & Sony Music EntertainmentIn this 12-part narrative limited series, host Josh Dean investigates the shooting of Henry Jemmott, a senior Belizean Police Officer, by a Canadian property developer named Jasmine Hartin.

83The LetterKSL Podcasts, Lemonada Media and Workhouse Media On a winter morning in 1982, two young fathers were found shot to death in a van parked outside an upscale Utah restaurant.

84The Shrink Next DoorWondery Veteran journalist Joe Nocera’s neighbor in the Hamptons was a therapist named Ike.

85The UFO Rabbit Hole PodcastKelly ChaseInquiry with Kelly Chase is an investigative podcast about how we know what we know—and what happens when official reality stops making sense.

86True Crime Bullsh**Studio BOTH/ANDTrue Crime Bullsh** is a serialized, investigative podcast that aims to identify the missing victims of serial killer Israel Keyes.

87UndisclosedRabia Chaudry, Susan Simpson, and Colin MillerAttorneys Colin Miller and Rabia Chaudry investigate and report on wrongful conviction cases in an effort to exonerate innocent incarcerated defendants.

88Welcome to Your FantasyGimletIn the 1980s the “male exotic dancers” of Chippendales were everywhere, selling the promise of women’s liberation for the price of a few dollars in a g-string.

89White LiesNPR, Embedded+On the morning of August 21, 1991, a group of Cuban detainees took over a federal prison in Talladega, Alabama, and demanded their freedom.

90Who Took Misty Copsey?IDIn September 1992, 14-year-old Misty Copsey goes to the Washington State Fair with her best friend.

91Wild BoysCampside Media / Sony Music EntertainmentIn 2003, two half-starved brothers emerged from the wilderness, telling an incredible story of survival.

92Your Own BackyardChris LambertA documentary podcast series investigating the 1996 disappearance of Cal Poly student, Kristin Smart.

93Are You Captain PurpleIn the summer of 1983, Bedford, Indiana, was visited by a mysterious figure who left food, clothing, and handwritten letters at the doors of those in need.

94Can I tell you a secret?It starts the same way...

95Chameleon: Hollywood Con QueenThe story of and hunt for the notorious scam artist known as the Hollywood Con Queen.

96CONFLICTEDMessage HeardAn ex-Al Qaeda jihadi turned MI6 spy and a former monk turned filmmaker, have been embedded at the heart of conflicts in the Middle East.

97Crook CountyKen Tekiela was a celebrated Chicago firefighter and a loving father of two who led a secret double life as a hitman for the Chicago mafia.

98HUMO: Murder and Silence in El SalvadorSonoroHUMO: Murder and Silence in El Salvador, desentraña las profundas raíces de una nación hundida en la corrupción y la violencia.

99Missing in the AmazonThe GuardianPeople are becoming convinced they have made scientific breakthroughs, cured diseases or invented new technologies using AI chatbots.

100Murder in the MoonlightNBC NewsIn Dateline’s newest podcast, Keith Morrison takes us to a quiet farmhouse on America’s Great Plains, where Sharmon and Wayne Stock have just celebrated Easter with their big, loving family.