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 31 Oct 2026

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10/31/2026

Average data

Episodes: 252

Frequency: every 27 days

Duration: 00:44:20

Top 5 authors

1. Audiochuck (5 shows)

2. ABC News (5 shows)

3. NBC News (5 shows)

4. Crime House (4 shows)

5. Pushkin Industries (4 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (22 shows)

2. Megaphone (18 shows)

3. Omny Studio (14 shows)

4. ART19 (12 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	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	27	Megaphone	63
4	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	903	Simplecast	68
5	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	188	Omny Studio	63
6	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1150	WideOrbit	53
7	Deceived: The Daybell Story	KSL Podcasts	True Crime	4	Unknown	58
8	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	35	Omny Studio	63
9	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	553	ART19	58
10	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	572	Simplecast	57
11	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	460	Simplecast	68
12	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	48
13	The Dropout	ABC News	True Crime	32	Libsyn	63
14	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1241	Omny Studio	38
15	My Mom’s Murder	AYR Media	True Crime	8	ART19	53
16	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	29	Megaphone	69
17	Heart	Apple TV / Plan B / Blanchard House	True Crime	6	ART19	73
18	Death of an Artist	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	26	Omny Studio	69
19	Over My Dead Body	Audible Original	True Crime	19	ART19	69
20	Not Just A Terrible Story	Terrible Story Productions	True Crime	13	Captivate	58
21	Ada	Casefile Presents	True Crime	28	Acast	69
22	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1223	Simplecast	58
23	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	309	Audioboom	52
24	Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter	Crime House	True Crime	60	WideOrbit	62
25	The Woman in the Woods	48 Hours	True Crime	7	WideOrbit	48
26	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	415	Megaphone	63
27	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	572	Simplecast	63
28	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	496	ART19	52
29	The Scream Murder: A True Teen Horror Story	ABC News	True Crime	6	Megaphone	42
30	Morrison Mysteries	NBC News	True Crime	23	Simplecast	69
31	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	185	Simplecast	63
32	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	374	ART19	58
33	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	465	Simplecast	68
34	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	209	Megaphone	48
35	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	180	Simplecast	68
36	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	46	Omny Studio	73
37	COLD	KSL Podcasts	True Crime	100	Unknown	63
38	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	23	Spreaker	84
39	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	62	Simplecast	73
40	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	267	Megaphone	59
41	The Gilded Rage	AYR Media	True Crime	5	RedCircle	63
42	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	197	WideOrbit	48
43	The Slippery	Nancy Moscatiello and Scott Eldridge	True Crime	57	Megaphone	53
44	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	296	Simplecast	63
45	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
46	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	363	Megaphone	68
47	BABY	Particle Entertainment and Wavland	True Crime	8	Megaphone	53
48	Cruel Summer: The Violent Death of Tiffany Valiante	Wavland and Street Smart Audio	True Crime	9	Megaphone	58
49	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	429	Acast	43
50	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
51	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	651	Audioboom	48
52	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	675	Audioboom	42
53	What Happened to Her	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	46	Omny Studio	63
54	What Happened to the McStays?	ABC News	True Crime	8	Megaphone	48
55	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	207	WideOrbit	63
56	The First 48	A&E \| Crime House	True Crime	19	ART19	63
57	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	568	Simplecast	49
58	Your Own Backyard	Chris Lambert	True Crime	29	Libsyn	48
59	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	450	Simplecast	68
60	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	302	Megaphone	63
61	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
62	Unsolved Mysteries	Unsolved Media, Inc. + Audacy	True Crime	97	WideOrbit	48
63	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	206	WideOrbit	58
64	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	248	ART19	63
65	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	456	Simplecast	73
66	Nightmares	Sword and Scale	True Crime	77	Spreaker	79
67	Blood Trails	MeatEater	True Crime	28	Omny Studio	63
68	Bad Blood: The Final Chapter	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	4	Megaphone	53
69	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	982	Simplecast	59
70	Bone Valley	Lava for Good Podcasts	True Crime	73	Omny Studio	73
71	Heist at the Louvre	ABC News	True Crime	5	Megaphone	53
72	Murder in the Heartland	ID	True Crime	91	Acast	53
73	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	305	N/A	N/A
74	The Most Wanted Olympian from Uncover	CBC	True Crime	329	Triton Digital	58
75	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	195	Omny Studio	52
76	Lost Hills	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	51	Omny Studio	63
77	Sea of Lies	CBC	True Crime	9	Triton Digital	53
78	CounterClock Feed not publicly shared by the creator	audiochuck	True Crime	129	N/A	N/A
79	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
80	Five Miles From Home	NBC News	True Crime	10	Simplecast	58
81	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	91	WideOrbit	58
82	The Truth About Natalie	Audiochuck	True Crime	19	Simplecast	58
83	Mile Higher	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	413	Audioboom	63
84	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
85	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	108	Triton Digital	53
86	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	417	Megaphone	73
87	Killer Psyche	Audible Original \| Treefort Media	True Crime	172	ART19	83
88	Into The Dark	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	200	Megaphone	78
89	American Nightmares: The Canal Murders	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	76	ART19	63
90	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
91	Examined: The Backfire Effect	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	72	Omny Studio	58
92	Who Killed Angel Harris?	ID	True Crime	37	Acast	58
93	Deep Cover	Pushkin Industries	True Crime	74	Omny Studio	63
94	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	186	Simplecast	79
95	Homicide 360	Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger \| Daylight Media	True Crime	26	Megaphone	58
96	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	249	WideOrbit	58
97	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	366	Audioboom	68
98	Dr. Death	Audible Original	True Crime	14	ART19	59
99	The Sinister	Sylas Dean	True Crime	36	Spotify for Podcasters	58
100	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	394	Acast	38

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