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 Nov 2026

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11/06/2026

Average data

Episodes: 315

Frequency: every 14 days

Duration: 00:48:31

Top 5 authors

1. Audiochuck (5 shows)

2. Crime House (5 shows)

3. ABC News (3 shows)

4. NBC News (3 shows)

5. Audible Original (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (20 shows)

3. ART19 (14 shows)

4. Omny Studio (11 shows)

5. WideOrbit (10 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	879	Simplecast	53
2	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	529	Simplecast	53
3	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	903	Simplecast	68
4	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1150	WideOrbit	53
5	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	188	Omny Studio	63
6	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1241	Omny Studio	38
7	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	48
8	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	572	Simplecast	57
9	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	460	Simplecast	68
10	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	27	Megaphone	63
11	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1223	Simplecast	58
12	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	185	Simplecast	63
13	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	23	Spreaker	84
14	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	374	ART19	58
15	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	572	Simplecast	63
16	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	35	Omny Studio	63
17	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	309	Audioboom	52
18	The Dropout	ABC News	True Crime	32	Libsyn	63
19	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	982	Simplecast	59
20	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	651	Audioboom	48
21	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	363	Megaphone	68
22	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	296	Simplecast	63
23	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	209	Megaphone	48
24	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	429	Acast	43
25	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	180	Simplecast	68
26	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	62	Simplecast	73
27	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	207	WideOrbit	63
28	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	248	ART19	63
29	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	415	Megaphone	63
30	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	675	Audioboom	42
31	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	29	Megaphone	69
32	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
33	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	195	Omny Studio	52
34	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	267	Megaphone	59
35	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	60	WideOrbit	62
36	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	46	Omny Studio	73
37	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
38	Not Just A Terrible Story	Terrible Story Productions	True Crime	13	Captivate	58
39	My Mom’s Murder	AYR Media	True Crime	8	ART19	53
40	COLD	KSL Podcasts	True Crime	100	Unknown	63
41	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	200	Megaphone	78
42	Blood Trails	MeatEater	True Crime	28	Omny Studio	63
43	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	568	Simplecast	49
44	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	417	Megaphone	73
45	Over My Dead Body	Audible Original	True Crime	19	ART19	69
46	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	456	Simplecast	73
47	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	73	Omny Studio	73
48	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	450	Simplecast	68
49	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	366	Audioboom	68
50	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
51	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	337	Megaphone	69
52	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	553	ART19	58
53	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	91	WideOrbit	58
54	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
55	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	197	WideOrbit	48
56	Murder in the Heartland	ID	True Crime	91	Acast	53
57	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	206	WideOrbit	58
58	Unsolved Mysteries	Unsolved Media, Inc. + Audacy	True Crime	97	WideOrbit	48
59	Heart	Apple TV / Plan B / Blanchard House	True Crime	6	ART19	73
60	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	137	ART19	53
61	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald	True Crime	62	Megaphone	62
62	Killer Psyche	Audible Original \| Treefort Media	True Crime	172	ART19	83
63	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
64	People are the Worst	Cloud10	True Crime	250	Megaphone	48
65	I Think Not!	I Think Not!	True Crime	435	Simplecast	73
66	What Happened to Her	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	46	Omny Studio	63
67	The Slippery	Nancy Moscatiello and Scott Eldridge	True Crime	57	Megaphone	53
68	Who Killed Angel Harris?	ID	True Crime	37	Acast	58
69	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	186	Simplecast	79
70	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	394	Acast	38
71	The Scream Murder: A True Teen Horror Story	ABC News	True Crime	6	Megaphone	42
72	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	249	WideOrbit	58
73	The First 48	A&E \| Crime House	True Crime	19	ART19	63
74	The First Degree	Alexis Linkletter, Jac Vanek	True Crime	734	Megaphone	49
75	Deceived: The Daybell Story	KSL Podcasts	True Crime	4	Unknown	58
76	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	305	N/A	N/A
77	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	466	ART19	43
78	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	56	Simplecast	69
79	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	466	Audioboom	42
80	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	302	Megaphone	63
81	Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast	Moms and Mysteries Podcast	True Crime	551	Simplecast	37
82	Homicide 360	Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger \| Daylight Media	True Crime	26	Megaphone	58
83	The Vanished Podcast	Audible Original	True Crime	579	ART19	58
84	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	413	Audioboom	63
85	LOVE MURDER	Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette	True Crime	521	ART19	58
86	Just Creepy: Scary Stories	Just Creepy	True Crime	578	Spotify for Podcasters	32
87	America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring	Crime House	True Crime	108	WideOrbit	68
88	The Most Wanted Olympian from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	329	Triton Digital	58
89	The Woman in the Woods	48 Hours	True Crime	7	WideOrbit	48
90	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	266	Simplecast	58
91	Dateline: True Crime Weekly	NBC News	True Crime	163	Simplecast	68
92	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield	True Crime	401	Audioboom	37
93	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	77	Spreaker	79
94	American Nightmares: The Canal Murders	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	76	ART19	63
95	BABY	Particle Entertainment and Wavland	True Crime	8	Megaphone	53
96	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible Original	True Crime	219	ART19	68
97	Ada	Casefile Presents	True Crime	28	Acast	69
98	Matthew Cox \| Inside True Crime Podcast	Rhapsody Voices	True Crime	1300	Megaphone	27
99	Hell and Gone: Murder Line	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	204	Omny Studio	73
100	Cruel Summer: The Violent Death of Tiffany Valiante	Wavland and Street Smart Audio	True Crime	9	Megaphone	58

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