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 13 Sep 2025

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09/13/2025

Average data

Episodes: 293

Frequency: every 14 days

Duration: 00:44:48

Top 5 authors

1. NBC News (7 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (6 shows)

3. Audiochuck (5 shows)

4. ID (4 shows)

5. Crime House (4 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (27 shows)

2. Simplecast (23 shows)

3. Omny Studio (15 shows)

4. ART19 (9 shows)

5. Audioboom (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	854	Simplecast	53
2	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	529	Simplecast	63
3	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	886	Simplecast	68
4	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
5	48 Hours	CBS News	True Crime	1116	WideOrbit	53
6	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1217	Omny Studio	38
7	The Unforgotten	Free Range Productions	True Crime	75	Megaphone	63
8	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
9	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
10	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	543	Simplecast	57
11	Cold Blooded: Mystery in Alaska	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	48
12	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	178	Omny Studio	53
13	Fifteen: Inside the Daniel Marsh Murders	CBS News	True Crime	7	Megaphone	63
14	Wisecrack	Tenderfoot TV and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	14	Omny Studio	59
15	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	48
16	Betrayal Seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	159	Omny Studio	73
17	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1204	Simplecast	58
18	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	558	Audioboom	63
19	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	367	ART19	58
20	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	178	Simplecast	63
21	The Binge Cases: What She Buried	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	202	Megaphone	48
22	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	179	Simplecast	68
23	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
24	Hands Tied	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	11	Omny Studio	79
25	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	561	Simplecast	63
26	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	289	Simplecast	63
27	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	302	Audioboom	52
28	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	22	Megaphone	73
29	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald & Studio71	True Crime	54	Megaphone	68
30	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	259	Megaphone	59
31	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	638	Audioboom	48
32	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	421	Acast	43
33	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	356	Megaphone	58
34	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
35	The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	174	Megaphone	48
36	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	224	ART19	53
37	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	847	Megaphone	69
38	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	965	Simplecast	59
39	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
40	Culpable	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	74	Megaphone	69
41	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
42	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
43	Who Took Misty Copsey?	ID	True Crime	31	Acast	69
44	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	293	Megaphone	63
45	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	443	Simplecast	68
46	The Fight of My Life	Cadence Productions	True Crime	15	Buzzsprout	63
47	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	202	WideOrbit	48
48	Legally Brunette	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	218	Omny Studio	53
49	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	186	Omny Studio	52
50	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	198	WideOrbit	63
51	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	386	Acast	38
52	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	650	Audioboom	42
53	Nightmare Next Door	ID	True Crime	104	Acast	64
54	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	161	Megaphone	73
55	The Mile Zero Murders from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	324	Triton Digital	58
56	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
57	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
58	The Idaho Massacre	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	102	Omny Studio	73
59	Status: Untraced	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	26	Megaphone	59
60	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	552	Simplecast	49
61	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	438	Simplecast	73
62	Everything They Missed	Stephanie Tinsley/Audacy/TFTV	True Crime	13	Megaphone	59
63	Crimes of the Times	L.A. Times Studios	True Crime	57	Simplecast	48
64	Deadly Nightmares	ID	True Crime	90	Acast	59
65	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	193	Megaphone	78
66	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	23	Megaphone	69
67	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	405	Audioboom	63
68	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	460	Audioboom	42
69	Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén	Spotify Studios	True Crime	621	Megaphone	53
70	Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes	Crime House	History	124	WideOrbit	68
71	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	359	Audioboom	68
72	Julie's Gone	Casefile Presents	True Crime	8	Acast	59
73	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	327	Megaphone	69
74	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	457	ART19	43
75	The Deck Investigates	audiochuck	True Crime	34	Simplecast	89
76	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
77	Camp Shame	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	9	Omny Studio	69
78	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	135	ART19	53
79	Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	80	WideOrbit	52
80	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	408	Megaphone	73
81	The Vanished Podcast	Audible	True Crime	572	ART19	58
82	Deadly Mirage	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	63
83	Invisible Choir	Reach Freaks	True Crime	452	Omny Studio	63
84	The First Degree	Alexis Linkletter, Jac Vanek	True Crime	719	Megaphone	49
85	Devil in the Desert	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	69
86	HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	11	Omny Studio	68
87	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	203	WideOrbit	58
88	Crime Salad Details temporarily unavailable	Weird Salad Media \| QCODE	True Crime	446	Megaphone	59
89	The Hunter	BBC Studios	True Crime	7	ART19	69
90	Bedtime Stories	Bedtime Stories \| Daylight Media	True Crime	158	Megaphone	58
91	Weird Little Guys	iHeartPodcasts and Cool Zone Media	True Crime	105	Omny Studio	64
92	Hell and Gone	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	170	Omny Studio	84
93	Dateline: True Crime Weekly	NBC News	True Crime	153	Simplecast	68
94	People are the Worst	Cloud10	True Crime	238	Megaphone	48
95	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	538	ART19	58
96	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	226	WideOrbit	58
97	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	65	Omny Studio	73
98	Murder in the Moonlight	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	79
99	Fear Thy Neighbor	ID	True Crime	79	Acast	53
100	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	155	Simplecast	73

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