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 24 Oct 2025

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10/24/2025

Average data

Episodes: 281

Frequency: every 17 days

Duration: 00:43:24

Top 5 authors

1. Crime House (7 shows)

2. NBC News (6 shows)

3. Audiochuck (5 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (5 shows)

5. ABC News (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (26 shows)

2. Simplecast (21 shows)

3. Omny Studio (16 shows)

4. ART19 (11 shows)

5. WideOrbit (9 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	529	Simplecast	53
2	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	879	Simplecast	53
3	Royal Swindle	Exactly Right Media and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	28	Omny Studio	59
4	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	902	Simplecast	68
5	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1148	WideOrbit	53
6	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1240	Omny Studio	38
7	The Preventionist	Serial Productions & The New York Times	True Crime	4	N/A	N/A
8	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
9	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	570	Simplecast	57
10	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	48
11	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	62	Simplecast	73
12	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	187	Omny Studio	63
13	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
14	Mind of a Monster: The Hollywood Ripper	ID	True Crime	65	Acast	73
15	The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall	CBC	True Crime	17	Triton Digital	53
16	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1222	Simplecast	58
17	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	459	Simplecast	68
18	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	185	Simplecast	63
19	Wild Boys	Campside Media / Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	4	Megaphone	59
20	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	209	Megaphone	48
21	The Surgeon Of St Helena	Always True Crime	True Crime	20	Acast	69
22	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	73	Omny Studio	73
23	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	374	ART19	58
24	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	266	Simplecast	58
25	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	308	Audioboom	52
26	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	572	Simplecast	63
27	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	674	Audioboom	42
28	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	180	Simplecast	68
29	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	295	Simplecast	63
30	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	219	Omny Studio	69
31	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	862	Megaphone	69
32	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
33	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	363	Megaphone	68
34	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
35	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	429	Acast	43
36	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	207	WideOrbit	63
37	Vanished: What Happened to Vanessa	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	48
38	Crime Salad	Realm	True Crime	292	Megaphone	59
39	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	650	Audioboom	48
40	The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	162	Megaphone	48
41	Incels	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	13	Omny Studio	79
42	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	982	Simplecast	59
43	Twisted Tales with Heidi Wong	Crime House	TV & Film	68	WideOrbit	62
44	Fifteen: Inside the Daniel Marsh Murders	CBS News	True Crime	7	Megaphone	63
45	Juicy Crimes with Heather McDonald	Heather McDonald & Studio71	True Crime	62	Megaphone	68
46	Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes	Crime House	History	145	WideOrbit	68
47	Scams, Money, & Murder	Crime House	True Crime	72	Megaphone	63
48	Murdaugh Murders Podcast	LUNASHARK	True Crime	98	Megaphone	94
49	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	29	Megaphone	69
50	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	247	ART19	53
51	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	195	Omny Studio	52
52	Crying Wolf	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	4	Omny Studio	69
53	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	266	Megaphone	59
54	The Peacemaker	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	10	Omny Studio	59
55	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	458	Simplecast	73
56	True Sunlight	LUNASHARK®⁠	True Crime	336	Megaphone	69
57	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	483	Megaphone	73
58	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	60	WideOrbit	62
59	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	197	WideOrbit	48
60	The Last Appeal	NBC News	True Crime	6	Simplecast	69
61	BURIED: Inside the John Wayne Gacy Investigation	Mottafied Sound, LLC	True Crime	26	ART19	63
62	The Most Wanted Olympian from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	328	Triton Digital	58
63	The Chinatown Sting	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	10	Omny Studio	69
64	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
65	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
66	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	91	WideOrbit	58
67	Hands Tied	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	11	Omny Studio	79
68	Cold Blooded: Mystery in Alaska	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	48
69	Wisecrack	Tenderfoot TV and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	14	Omny Studio	59
70	MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries	Wondery \| Ballen Studios	True Crime	109	ART19	63
71	Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén	Spotify Studios	True Crime	631	Megaphone	53
72	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	200	Megaphone	78
73	America's Crime Lab	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	True Crime	30	Omny Studio	83
74	Mr. Nightmare Podcast	Mr. Nightmare	True Crime	105	Spotify for Podcasters	32
75	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	393	Acast	38
76	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	567	Simplecast	49
77	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	27	Megaphone	63
78	Culpable	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	74	Megaphone	69
79	Invisible Choir	Reach Freaks	True Crime	181	Megaphone	68
80	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
81	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
82	Murder in the Moonlight	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	79
83	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	466	Audioboom	42
84	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	366	Audioboom	68
85	The Vanished Podcast	Audible Original	True Crime	579	ART19	58
86	The Idaho Massacre	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	102	Omny Studio	73
87	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	164	Megaphone	73
88	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	552	ART19	58
89	Crime House 24/7	Crime House	True Crime	535	WideOrbit	68
90	Bedtime Stories	Bedtime Stories \| Daylight Media	True Crime	162	Megaphone	58
91	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	304	N/A	N/A
92	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	412	Audioboom	63
93	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	227	ART19	53
94	Crimes of the Times	L.A. Times Studios	True Crime	57	Simplecast	48
95	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	466	ART19	43
96	Dateline: Missing in America	NBC News	True Crime	37	Simplecast	68
97	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	301	Megaphone	63
98	The Missing Sister	Free Turn \| Wondery	True Crime	7	ART19	59
99	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	205	WideOrbit	58
100	The Rachel Cancer Scam	The Messenger	True Crime	48	ART19	83

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in USA

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