True Crime Podcast 2026

New podcast series Fraudacious puts the international fraudster Ekaterina Barrett under the microscope, as her best friend and victim Bridget Hutchcroft recounts a loan of over £1 million that was never repaid.

The UK True Crime Podcast marked a significant milestone with episode 499, released on April 9, 2026, examining the case of Laura Connelly, who was murdered in Paisley near Glasgow after a night out with friends.

ABC Audio and 20/20 have partnered to launch 'The Hand in the Window,' a six-part podcast series exploring the 2016 capture of serial killer Shawn Grate in rural Ashland, Ohio. Hosted by veteran journalist John Quiñones, the limited series premiered November 4, 2025, and traces how a desperate 911 call led investigators to uncover multiple homicides across the state.

Black Girl Gone launched approximately five years ago with a focused mission: to investigate and humanize cases of missing and murdered Black women and girls who have been overlooked by mainstream media. Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other platforms, the podcast has published nearly 300 episodes of in-depth true crime storytelling.

Brendan Banfield, a former IRS special agent from Virginia, was convicted on February 3, 2026, of murdering his wife Christine and a stranger named Joseph Ryan in a scheme allegedly motivated by his affair with the family's live-in au pair.

Brian Walshe was charged with the murder of his wife Ana Walshe, who disappeared around New Year 2022–2023. Analysis of Google searches on his son's iPad revealed queries about body disposal and forensic evidence.

Swedish author and criminology PhD Christoffer Carlsson publishes his third crime novel in January 2026, a Nordic noir that examines a fictional murder investigation spanning 20 years. The work has already won major Scandinavian literary prizes, establishing Carlsson as a leading voice in contemporary crime fiction.

Retired Chicago Police Detective Pamela Childs is reopening some of the city's most haunting missing persons cases in a new crime documentary series premiering March 4, 2026. Hunt for the Missing: Chicago follows her investigation into cold cases from Chicago's South Side, uncovering new leads and challenging official narratives while seeking answers for grieving families.

A senior homicide investigator from Copenhagen Police has published a genre-bending account of how Danish authorities solve murders, blending procedural detail with lyric narrative. The book offers rare international insight into Nordic criminal investigation methods and the human toll of cold cases.

On December 26, 1996, six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey was reported missing from her family home in Boulder, Colorado. Seven hours later, she was found dead in the basement. Nearly three decades on, her killer remains unknown.

More than 25 years after human remains were discovered at Fox Hollow Farm near Indianapolis, modern DNA technology is finally identifying victims of Herbert Baumeister, a businessman who killed at least 13 men in the early-to-mid 1990s. Two more victims were confirmed in 2024 using cutting-edge forensic genome sequencing.

On February 17, 1970, Captain Jeffrey MacDonald's wife and two young daughters were found murdered in their Fort Bragg home. MacDonald claimed four intruders were responsible. Nine years later, forensic evidence told a different story.

More than 40,000 sets of human remains lie unidentified in evidence rooms across the United States, a crisis the Department of Justice has called a 'silent mass disaster.' Despite advanced forensic technology, most cases remain unsolved due to fragmented databases and jurisdictional gaps.

The Danish podcast Mørkeland has released Episode 307, focusing on two separate cases involving death and severe neglect. The episode examines circumstances where individuals were subject to dangerous living conditions and inadequate care.

On February 8, 1983, a routine plumbing job in North London uncovered human remains that would lead to one of Britain's most disturbing serial murder cases. The discovery of Dennis Nilsen — and his confessed 15 victims — revealed critical gaps in how European police tracked predatory killers operating within urban anonymity.

Dennis Nilsen, a Scottish-born serial killer, murdered a minimum of 12 young men and boys in London between 1978 and 1983. His crimes went undetected for years until a plumber's discovery in February 1983 led to his arrest and eventual confession to one of Britain's most shocking killing sprees.

On July 8, 2022, Ole Miss student and gay activist Jimmie 'Jay' Lee disappeared from Oxford, Mississippi. Nearly three years later, Timothy Herrington pleaded guilty to his murder, even though the body wasn't found until February 2025. Private messages would prove crucial to cracking the case.

Host Stine Bolther investigates a case in Djursland near Randers, Denmark, that involves a meticulously planned murder, a pregnant woman, and audio evidence so damning that the victim reportedly warned relatives it might happen. The 43-minute episode premiered February 3, 2026, on the true crime podcast Danske Drabssager.

On March 2, 1998, Natascha Kampusch was abducted near Vienna, Austria, and held captive for 3,096 days in a hidden basement. Her escape in August 2006 and the captor's immediate suicide left unanswered questions about one of Europe's most haunting kidnapping cases.

On the night before Halloween 1975, fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley was bludgeoned to death outside her family home in Belle Haven, Greenwich, Connecticut. Twenty-seven years later, her killer—Michael Skakel, a Kennedy family cousin who was also fifteen at the time—was convicted in a 2002 trial that captivated the nation and raised uncomfortable questions about wealth, privilege, and the American legal system.