The Best Podcasts of 2025

The Best Podcasts of 2025

2025 was a solid year for podcasts. There were multiple investigative series, retrospectives on the history you thought you knew, and even some light‑hearted fare that was quirky and entertaining. But which titles truly stood out? We’ll hear from crime writers as they share their top 10 podcasts we reviewed in 2025.

Lara's top 10 podcasts:

  1. Spotlight: Snitch City
  2. Liberty Lost
  3. The Preventionist
  4. The Retrievals season 2
  5. Not a Very Good Murderer
  6. Wisecrack
  7. Breakdown: Three Days in May
  8. Uncover: Sea of Lies
  9. Scam Factory
  10. Bone Valley Season 3 | Graves County

Toby's top 10 podcasts:

  1. Bone Valley Season 3 | Graves County
  2. Scam Factory
  3. Final Thoughts: Jerry Springer
  4. Breakdown: Three Days in May
  5. Uncover: Sea of Lies
  6. Not a Very Good Murderer
  7. Wisecrack
  8. Stakeknife
  9. Dirtbag Climber
  10. Lords of Death

Kevin's top 10 podcasts:

  1. Wisecrack
  2. Spotlight: Snitch City
  3. Stakeknife
  4. Final Thoughts: Jerry Springer
  5. The Copernic Affair
  6. Not a Very Good Murderer
  7. The Retrievals season 2
  8. Bone Valley Season 3 | Graves County
  9. Death County, PA
  10. The Preventionist

Rebecca's top 10 podcasts:

  1. Wisecrack
  2. Bone Valley Season 3 | Graves County
  3. Spotlight: Snitch City
  4. Stakeknife
  5. The Retrievals season 2
  6. Not a Very Good Murderer
  7. Dirtbag Climber
  8. Death County PA
  9. Final Thoughts: Jerry Springer
  10. Liberty Lost

The Crime Writers On Best of 2025 Podcast List

  1. Wisecrack
  2. Spotlight: Snitch City
  3. Bone Valley Season 3 | Graves County
  4. Not a Very Good Murderer
  5. Stakeknife
  6. The Retrievals season 2
  7. Final Thoughts: Jerry Springer
  8. Breakdown: Three Days in May
  9. Scam Factory
  10. Liberty Lost

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Beauty and the Bester

Beauty and the Bester

Thabo Bester, South Africa’s so-called “Facebook Rapist,” was serving a murder conviction when he died by suicide in his prison cell, setting his bed on fire. But authorities later revealed the victim...

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Love + Radio: Blood Memory

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While doing defense work, Ariel crosses paths with inmate Michael Thompson. Incarcerated for decades on murder charges, she finds him to be soft-spoken, educated, and spiritual. Ariel’s intrigued by T...

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Valley of Shadows

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In 1998, Deputy Jon Aujay went for a run in the California desert and never returned. After a weeklong search, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department determined he went to the Devil’s Punchbowl t...

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Murder in Glitterball City

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After a routine domestic disturbance call at a Louisville home, Jeffrey Mundt and Joey Banis shocked police by revealing a dead body was in their basement. The ex-lovers each accused the other of kill...

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Murder at the U

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In 2006, University of Miami football player Bryan Pata was shot outside his apartment coming home from practice. On the ten-year anniversary of the death, police invited ESPN to look into the cold ca...

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The Investigation of Lucy Letby

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Watching You

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