Crime podcasts!

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Any suggestions?

The new series of In The Dark is excellent, though the insights into the US justice system will make you

73 episodes into missing maura murray. Its long and intense but fascinating and I really like the presenters.
Really liked in the dark too and Missing and murdered -finding cleo which is less crime but a real insight into a programme of adoption in America of indigenous indian children.

'small town horror' is good and 'creepy' is another one great for listening in the dark

The Doorstep Murder. Just getting into it. Oh

The Murder Mile www.murdermiletours.com/podcast.html based on crimes set in one square mile of London is well worth a listen. The writer does a tour as well, hence the 'tour' part of that link. Some are harrowing, such as a horrendous fire in a nightclub, but others, though grim subjects, are very entertaining. I recommend the episode about the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko. The mess made by the Russians in two failed attempts to try and get him to drink polonium laced tea is unbelievable and terrifying. It helped put the Skripal affair in to context for me.
I'm not a big fan of true crime podcasts though. If I'm listening, I find myself locking the doors and getting freaked out by the cat!

The Teachers Pet is really good, it’s an Australian podcast based on the disappearance of a woman in the 80s.

Good if you like Casefile and the like.

Thanks for putting me on to Murder Mile little. Quite different to others in that there is no investigative element or interviews but a story well told.

Ive just started The Teachers Pet. It is so well done and so strange.
I also listen to The Bill Podcast. Every month a cast member is interviewed.
Also womans hour because its the only way i can listen.

Sword and scale is very excellent. But can be very graphic and gory. Be warned.

Thank you for recommending My Favourite Murder, am hooked!

Shattered - Black Friday

I too am hooked on My Favourite Murder. Interesting and occasionally hilarious. And I want to BE Karen when I grow up!

@FishFingerInjury and @Koalablue re The Teacher's Pet is episode 12 the last one? Or is it ongoing? Just about to start episode 12.

Thanks for the recommendations - finally decided to give The Teacher's Pet a go and just finished it. Outrageous lapses in the investigation and sweeping under the carpet of the conduct of teachers. I see in the news that the goings-on in some of those schools in the northern suburbs of Sydney from that time are now going to be investigated by NSW police. All from the interest in this podcast. Awful stuff, but a very interesting listen.

Fwiw I've just got into Astonishing Legends podcast. One of many podcasts recommended on the Death in Ice Valley podcast Facebook group. I'm listening to their episodes on Somerton Man which has things in common with Death in Ice Valley and is a bit of an old chestnut beloved of fans of the unexplained. Again the appeal for me is the style of the two American guys who present. It seems to be a series of podcasts about unsolved stories etc, and is more storytelling rather than investigative reportage.

A new one called Dr Death starts in a few days time. It sounds good as is from the same people who did Dirty John.

Ooh just listened to the first DrDeath today nicebitofquiche! I thought it was very good - shocking events with a wider political critique to come. Well told with a mix of storytelling and personal accounts.

Don't know it had already started littlelebowski. I can't wait to hear it.

Happy Face seems interesting. It's about Melissa Moore, the daughter of Keith Hunter Jesperson (the happy face killer), and is probably going to be more of a mini-series. All the stories of serial killers always leave me wondering how horrible it must be not just for the victims' families, but for the killers' families as well, to find this out about their family member, so it's an angle I'm definitely interested in hearing about. So far it's very moving.

Keep the recommendations coming. I’m totally obsessed with podcasts

Gonefishing I've listened to the first 2 Happy Face episodes. Am I right in thinking Melissa Moore was involved in writing about crime as well as being the daughter of a serial killer? That's what I thought from episode 1, as Melissa sounds very professional rather than someone just talking about her past. The story gave me chills as you hear her increasing realisation from an adult's view point that her dad was obviously not right to begin with. Very unusual perspective.

There's a new series of Someone Knows Something out very soon...

Just finished Bowraville (from The Australian newspaper, like Teacher's Pet) and S- Town before that. Both excellent.

Btw I joined the Facebook group for Death in Ice Valley and there were at least 2 questions and very long list of replies with podcast recommendations.

Monsters Who Murder is really good as is Australian True Crime. I have also just finished one called Uncover: Escaping NXIVM which is based on a woman who left a cult. Very interesting. I love crime podcats!