Apple Podcast Rankings - USA - True Crime

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in USA

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in USA. Our comprehensive analysis covers the best Apple Podcasts across various categories, providing insights into the most popular shows, episode lengths, publication frequencies, and leading hosting services. Whether you're a podcast creator or an avid listener, find the top-ranked podcasts that everyone is tuning into right now.

Podcast charts from 06 Mar 2026

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03/06/2026

Average data

Episodes: 282

Frequency: every 15 days

Duration: 00:44:34

Top 5 authors

1. NBC News (7 shows)

2. Audiochuck (5 shows)

3. Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

4. ABC News (3 shows)

5. CBC (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (24 shows)

2. Megaphone (22 shows)

3. ART19 (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (11 shows)

5. Audioboom (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	528	Simplecast	53
2	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	878	Simplecast	53
3	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
4	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1144	WideOrbit	53
5	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	901	Simplecast	68
6	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	186	Omny Studio	63
7	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	567	Simplecast	57
8	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1238	Omny Studio	38
9	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
10	American Nightmares: The Canal Murders	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	75	ART19	63
11	Out of the Valley’s Shadow	Aziz Saad	True Crime	6	Podbean	58
12	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
13	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	551	ART19	58
14	Murder at The U	ESPN	True Crime	12	Megaphone	59
15	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	457	Simplecast	68
16	Bridge of Lies	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
17	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	184	Simplecast	63
18	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1218	Simplecast	58
19	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	34	Omny Studio	63
20	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	180	Simplecast	68
21	The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	161	Megaphone	48
22	The Final Hours with Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole	Crime House	True Crime	47	WideOrbit	62
23	The Epstein Files	NBN.fm	True Crime	199	Buzzsprout	69
24	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	373	ART19	58
25	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	464	Simplecast	68
26	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	495	ART19	52
27	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	979	Simplecast	59
28	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	308	Audioboom	52
29	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	571	Simplecast	63
30	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	209	Megaphone	48
31	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	362	Megaphone	68
32	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	295	Simplecast	63
33	Amanda Knox Hosts \| DOUBT: The Case of Lucy Letby	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	16	Omny Studio	73
34	Proof: A True Crime Podcast	Red Marble Media	True Crime	103	Megaphone	68
35	Are You Captain Purple	Hilliard House Productions	True Crime	9	Podbean	63
36	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	61	Simplecast	73
37	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	45	Omny Studio	83
38	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
39	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	413	Megaphone	63
40	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	206	WideOrbit	63
41	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	245	ART19	53
42	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	428	Acast	43
43	Killer In The Code	Michael Connelly	True Crime	13	Spreaker	74
44	Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder	NBC News Studios	True Crime	14	Simplecast	73
45	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	29	Megaphone	69
46	BETH'S DEAD	Monica Padman, Elizabeth Laime, Andy Rosen	True Crime	14	Libsyn	69
47	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	194	Omny Studio	52
48	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	265	Megaphone	59
49	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	860	Megaphone	69
50	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
51	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	54	Simplecast	69
52	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
53	High Strange	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
54	The Most Wanted Olympian from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	328	Triton Digital	58
55	Valley of Shadows	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	10	Omny Studio	79
56	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	649	Audioboom	48
57	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	672	Audioboom	42
58	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible Original	True Crime	219	ART19	68
59	Frozen Files	Madison McGhee	True Crime	8	Megaphone	53
60	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	77	Spreaker	79
61	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	565	Simplecast	49
62	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
63	Gone South	Audacy Podcasts	True Crime	90	Megaphone	79
64	Murder & Magnolias	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	63
65	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald & Studio71	True Crime	61	Megaphone	68
66	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	71	Omny Studio	73
67	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	199	Megaphone	78
68	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
69	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	205	WideOrbit	58
70	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
71	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	89	WideOrbit	58
72	Two-Faced: John of God	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	7	Omny Studio	59
73	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	415	Megaphone	73
74	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	True Crime	392	Audioboom	37
75	Something About Cari	NBC News	True Crime	7	Simplecast	63
76	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	365	Audioboom	68
77	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	336	Megaphone	69
78	On the Case with Paula Zahn Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	On the Case with Paula Zahn	True Crime	29	N/A	N/A
79	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	197	WideOrbit	48
80	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	393	Acast	38
81	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	464	ART19	43
82	Gardens of Evil: Inside the Zion Society Cult	American NIghtmares	True Crime	12	ART19	63
83	The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall	CBC	True Crime	17	Triton Digital	53
84	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
85	UNMARKED: A True Crime Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Pyramid Productions	True Crime	20	Podbean	42
86	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	108	Triton Digital	53
87	The Hand in the Window	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	53
88	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
89	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
90	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	465	Audioboom	42
91	The Vanished Podcast	Audible Original	True Crime	578	ART19	58
92	Hush	Oregon Public Broadcasting	True Crime	21	Unknown	69
93	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	26	Megaphone	63
94	I Think Not!	I Think Not!	True Crime	433	Megaphone	53
95	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	447	Simplecast	68
96	Killer Psyche	Audible Original \| Treefort Media	True Crime	172	ART19	83
97	Swindled	Swindled	True Crime	165	Audioboom	53
98	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
99	Dateline: True Crime Weekly	NBC News	True Crime	159	Simplecast	68
100	Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast	Moms and Mysteries Podcast	True Crime	540	Megaphone	27

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