True crime podcasts

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Hoping I can get some recommendations..

I listen to a lot of true crime podcasts. Usually ones covering a particular case per episode or two.

I really enjoy true crime or interesting conspiracy documentaries.

Can anyone recommend any true crime podcasts series or one offs that cover just one case or event… like a deep dive over several episodes or one long episode?

Thanks!

It's not AI narrated!

I just listened for a few minutes and it is AI!

Bookmarking for inspiration but highly recommend In the Dark and Serial - there is a season - I think 3 called Sh*t Town which is outstanding.

Some great ones on BBC Sounds - I can’t recall the exact names of any of these but one about a murder, of an elderly brother and sister at a remote farm house - can’t recall the name but it was excellent. Also just listened to one about the longest running miscarriage of justice which was v thought provoking, amount about the murder of a young female sex worker and her parents search for justice, another called Million Dollar Love - wealthy older woman meets ne’er do well 50ish man and her worried daughters watching helplessly from the sidelines as he separates her from her family, Scorpion, some of The Gangster stories are excellent too.

I've listened to Casefile for 8 years and hundreds of episodes, but I'll bow down to your "few minutes" of experience here. 🤔

Well it was really obvious in the bit i listened to.

I've listened to Casefile for 8 years and hundreds of episodes, but I'll bow down to your "few minutes" of experience here. 🤔

Well it was really obvious in the bit i listened to

Which bit? I'll have re-listen and see if I notice.
I know "Casey" as he is named, does sound more robotic than earlier episodes but that has ben explained away previously.

I hate They Walk Among Us due to the AI presenter

Nothing to add that hasn’t already been mentioned but Casefile is not AI narrated!

I was a big fan of Redhanded until they did a case I knew quite a bit about and they’d got so many very very basic facts wildly wrong that it put me off, they used to be public about how much they earned on Patreon and for tens of thousands of $$ a month at the time you’d think they could pay a half decent researcher (or spend 10 minutes on google themselves). I lost a bit of respect for them at that point, but have recently dipped back in to the odd case.

Have you listened to flesh and code by the red handed girls?
Teacher's pet was a good listen for a single case over the course of a number of episodes.
Someone knows something is good if you like unsolved cases.

I can't get on with Casefile either as it definitely sounds like an AI narrator.

I like True Crime Creepers but it depends if you like chat as the two female hosts are chatty. I think Kirsten and Mogab are great though.

Like many people, Serial was my first True Crime podcast but I do now prefer one case per episode rather than the more long form deep dives into a single case (like Adnan's)

I listened to a Casefile that had foreign names in pronounced as if they were English, like Niamh said Nee-Am (not that exact example, but similar). It was clearly AI because a native English speaker would have at least attempted to get it right.

I listened to a Casefile that had foreign names in pronounced as if they were English, like Niamh said Nee-Am (not that exact example, but similar). It was clearly AI because a native English speaker would have at least attempted to get it right.

He's Australian and wouldn't necessarily get some of 'our' English and Irish names right.Heck, I'm from the North West of England and there are plenty of Scottish, Welsh and Irish names I cant pronounce but that doesn't make me AI! 😆

The change in tone on Casefile happened before AI became a mainstream thing and hasn't altered recently.

I love Casefile -well researched and respectful towards the victims.

I checked back to previous podcasts and the difference is very clear.

It’s very easy to clone your voice…. He has done it, well I’d consider it’s done quite badly. What a shame!
there’ll be lots more of this for story telling podcasts no doubt! What a shame.

You’ve rung a bell that there’s a Casefile with an example like that (it might actually have been Niamh) that clarified at some point in the intro that it was how her family pronounced it.

I’ve just gone back and checked. It’s the Casefile presents Missing Niamh series. Her Sister features in the podcast and also pronounces it Nee-am, and it’s explained 5 and a half minutes into episode 1 that her parents adjusted the pronunciation for an 80s Australian society.

It wasn't an Irish name. it was a french one on the al-Hilli case. Any English speaker would have hesitated or at least put on an attempt at an accent but the AI voice just steamrollered out the French place names phonetically like they were English, just like satnav does when you drive in Europe.

https://casefilepodcast.com/case-272-the-annecy-shootings/ if you want to give it a listen. The intonation and inflection is all wrong for an Anglo speaker tackling unfamiliar foreign place names.

It wasn't an Irish name. it was a french one on the al-Hilli case. Any English speaker would have hesitated or at least put on an attempt at an accent but the AI voice just steamrollered out the French place names phonetically like they were English, just like satnav does when you drive in Europe

But he was doing that 10 years ago when it started. There was plenty of times when he hot pronunciation different to what im used to hearing. This was way before AI was a thing.

I’ve just gone back and checked. It’s the Casefile presents Missing Niamh series. Her Sister features in the podcast and also pronounces it Nee-am, and it’s explained 5 and a half minutes into episode 1 that her parents adjusted the pronunciation for an 80s Australian society.
Actually I remember that now.

I hate They Walk Among Us due to the AI presenter
Ben Fitton's voice hasn't changed in 10 years!!! Sure its monotone on the whole but its always been like that.
Personly I like casefile and TWAU for being relatively monotone. They tell the story and give facts with no drama no daft jokes or opinions of their own. Just straight forward reporting.

@notacooldad I wish Ben Fittons voice had changed in 10 years... he speaks so slowly he's practically comatose! I have to listen to TWAU at 1.5 x speed.

Aaand, it's worth repeating that neither he, nor Casey Casefile, are AI !

I wish Ben Fittons voice had changed in 10 years... he speaks so slowly he's practically comatose! I have to listen to TWAU at 1.5 x speed

I like it. I usually have podcasts on when I'm home alone. If Dh come home when CF or TWAU is on he normally says 'whose droning on now!!!!!'
If you want quick and fast get on to Margot on 'Military Murders!' or if you want excitable and Scottish get Barry on Extraordinary Stoties. I have mentioned them before but I do like them.

If you think TWAU is slow give Swindled a miss. I bloody love it. The narrator is "A concerened citizen". A slow measured delivery and as sarcastic AF!!!

Aaand, it's worth repeating that neither he, nor Casey Casefile, are AI ! IKR!!! I can almost see why people may think that about CF but thinking it about TWAU has baffled me!

@irieim a massive Casefile fan especially for the reason you mention. Have you found any other similar ones? I like his mono tone voice and it makes me fall asleep

@notacooldad Same here. Similar to Black Mirror where people have said they are unable to watch whereas I’ve enjoyed the episodes. However, I agree with you on Leigh Leigh and the worst one which I could not finish was Toy Box - I listened to 2 out of 3 episodes and wished I hadn’t. It stayed with me for a while. Silk Road three parts was one of the best ones in my opinions

But he was doing that 10 years ago when it started. There was plenty of times when he hot pronunciation different to what im used to hearing. This was way before AI was a thing.

It's not just pronunciation, it's cadence. A human speaker encountering a word they know is foreign and are unsure of will pause or hesitate or acknowledge its foreignness in some way. A cloned robot voice won't know it's not an English word and will just keep going pronouncing it like phonetic English.

Edit: actually just listened again, it's less obvious than I thought

Same here. Similar to Black Mirror where people have said they are unable to watch whereas I’ve enjoyed the episodes. However, I agree with you on Leigh Leigh and the worst one which I could not finish was Toy Box - I listened to 2 out of 3 episodes and wished I hadn’t. It stayed with me for a while. Silk Road three parts was one of the best ones in my opinion

I totally agree with you. I couldn't finish toybox either. Just sickening and that haunted me for a long while, in fact it still does and it was a few years since I listened to it.
I didn't think id like silk Road and I got totally drawn in and it was fascinating. Im going to have a re-listen!