true crime

Manhattan, 1965. Legendary African American civil rights leader Malcolm X was preparing to deliver a speech to a packed ballroom when a man rushed onto the stage and shot him in the chest with a sawed-off shotgun. After trying to flee the…

Larry Griffin was a postman who disappeared on Christmas Day in Stradbally 1929. Ten people, including a publican, his wife and two children, a schoolmaster and two Gardaí were charged with his murder. In this episode Julie Jay chats to…

Comedian Julie Jay, co-host of the hit podcast Up To 90, launches her brand new show, Crimeland, in which Julie chats true-crime with her favourite funny people. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. ?

Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country…

Welcome to Murder One, the podcast of Ireland's international crime writing festival. You'll hear some of the world's biggest authors talk crime, crime fiction, and true crime. Season 1 launches tomorrow, December 13th. ? Music in…

A must for true crime junkies, Scandi documentary and Lux Prize finalist Cold Case Hammarskjold is a dizzying, disturbing odyssey. It sees director and onscreen narrator Mads Brugger travel the world investigating the suspicious death of UN…

‘We all had that Geri Halliwell friend who was like ‘I think my parents are separating.’ This week we talk Jaycee Lee Dugard. In a case that stunned the world, Jaycee Lee Dugard was a little girl abducted in broad daylight and never…

A Surprisingly Long Wait While it seems like there has been a podcast about nearly every crime that has ever occurred, it has been a surprisingly long wait for an entire podcast series focusing on the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.…

As a die hard fan of Friday Night Lights, I was eager to watch Connie Britton take the lead in the Netflix original true crime series: Dirty John. Anyone who’s a fan of the high school drama will remember Britton as “Tammie”, the school…

True Crime is my favourite genre to read, watch and listen to. But let’s be real here – the genre has officially reached saturation point. With help from Netflix, the True Crime genre went from being a niche genre that you wouldn’t dream…