Ever since Serial burst onto the podcast scene in 2014, true crime has become one of the most popular podcast genres. With ...

The New York Times and Serial Productions are launching a new true crime podcast based on a family member of New York Times Opinion columnist M. Gessen. The five-part podcast, The Idiot, is hosted, ...

Not many true crime pods are also called calming.

The true crime genre of podcasts has exploded since Serial broke through in 2014, with no signs of slowing down. From series with a more comedic approach like My Favorite Murder to hard-hitting ...

On a bonus episode (first released on May 6, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: Buried in an evidence room, a DNA swab held the key to catching a serial sex offender. But no one tested it for years.

It was a plea posted on social media. On missing posters teenage girls put up on telephone poles. A question asked of anyone who might have laid eyes on their friend. It was 2016, and Black girls and ...

Scroll through true crime offerings on Netflix or Hulu and you’ll see it: our culture’s basic perception of the serial killer. Usually he’s a white man with a wife and kids, fooling everyone with his ...

In 2014, Serial hit the scene, bringing podcasts into the mainstream—kicking off the content boom and rapid audience growth that continues to this day. It also ushered in a new era of audio ...

A criminologist, author and Seattle University professor explains why she found herself conflicted wandering a popular serial ...