Free True Crime Channels: The Complete Guide

Free ad-supported streaming (FAST) has quietly become the biggest home for true crime. Our catalogue tracks 53 dedicated true crime channels across the major free platforms — no subscription, no login. Here they are, grouped by where you can watch them. Each links to its full guide.

Pluto TV

5 Cops

5 Crime

Archivos Forenses (Forensic Files II)

Cazador de Homicidas (Homicide Hunter)

Cold Case Files

Court TV

Crime 360

Dateline 24/7

Forensic Files

KultKrimi

Misterios sin Resolver (Unsolved Mysteries)

Oxygen True Crime Archives

Pluto Investigação

Pluto TV Crime

Pluto TV True Crime

True Crime UK

True Lives by ITV Studios

ZDF Kultkrimi (Pluto TV channel)

Zona Investigación TV (ZI TV)

Samsung TV Plus

Crime Network

CrimeTime

Crimen TV

Crimes Cults Killers

Evidence of Evil (FAST channel)

Inside Crime

Rakuten TV Crime

Real Crime

Spiegel TV action+crime

World's Most Evil Killers

Rakuten TV

Aftershock Real Crime

YouTube

NTV Bangladesh YouTube Channel

Real Crime Deutschland

Joyn

Joyn True Crime Collection

Top True Crime

Other free platforms

ARD Mediathek True Crime section

ARY News Official YouTube Channel

Crime + Investigation (CI) Asia

Crime ThrillHer

FilmRise True Crime

Geo News YouTube Channel

Into Crime

Investiga

JioHotstar

NRK TV Crime/Documentary (thematic section)

Rakuten TV Series Crime

SVT Play True Crime (thematic section)

Tonton (TV3 Malaysia)

Total Crime

True Crime Files

True Crime Now

Vidio (Indonesia) – Crime/Investigation Category

ZDF Mediathek True Crime section

meWATCH (Mediacorp Singapore)