Top True Crime Podcasts in New Zealand

The latest Apple Podcasts True Crime chart for New Zealand, refreshed throughout the day. Last checked October 29, 2026.

1

Ada

Casefile Presents

2

Casefile True Crime

Casefile Presents

3

Missing Debbie | Bed of Lies

The Telegraph

4

The Poisoned Wife

The Australian

5

DELVE

newsroom.co.nz

6

Bear Brook

NHPR

7

The Veil

Brevity Studios

8

RedHanded

RedHanded

9

Dateline NBC

NBC News

10

Unravel

ABC Australia

11

The Case Of

ABC Australia

12

Crime Junkie

Audiochuck

13

In The Dark

The New Yorker

14

48 Hours

48 Hours

15

MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories

Ballen Studios

16

Betrayal Season 6

iHeartPodcasts | Glass Podcasts

17

Love Trapped

iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts

18

Heart

Apple TV / Plan B / Blanchard House

19

The Dropout

ABC News

20

20/20

ABC News

21

My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

22

True Crime Conversations

Mamamia Podcasts

23

GUILT

Brevity Studios

24

The Trial: Russell Brand

The Crime Desk

25

Crime Next Door

BBC Sounds

26

Crimes NZ

RNZ

27

Morbid

Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart

28

Over My Dead Body

Audible Original

29

A Moment In Crime

NZ Herald

30

Australian True Crime

Bravecasting

31

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

32

My Mom’s Murder

AYR Media

33

Your Own Backyard

Chris Lambert

34

The Most Wanted Olympian from Uncover

CBC

35

The Disappearance of Katie Walker

AIIMS Creator Hub

36

Crime Analyst

Laura Richards

37

They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime

They Walk Among Us

38

Serial Killers & Murderous Minds

Crime House

39

Last Podcast On The Left

The Last Podcast Network

40

I Catch Killers with Gary Jubelin

News.com.au

41

The Woman in the Woods

48 Hours

42

Not Just A Terrible Story

Terrible Story Productions

43

Back To The Wall

Podshape/Camille Bianchi

44

Rotten Mango

Stephanie Soo

45

What Happened to the McStays?

ABC News

46

Park Predators

Audiochuck

47

Snapped: Women Who Murder

Oxygen

48

The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions

Sony Music Entertainment

49

BLACK HANDS - A family mass murder

Stuff Audio

50

Bone Valley

Lava for Good Podcasts

51

Sea of Lies

CBC

52

Burden of Guilt

iHeartPodcasts | Glass Podcasts

53

True Crime with Kendall Rae

Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios

54

What Happened to Her

iHeartPodcasts

55

Bronwyn

The Australian

56

What Happened To…

Podshape

57

The Slippery

Nancy Moscatiello and Scott Eldridge

58

Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

59

COLD

KSL Podcasts

60

Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter

Crime House

61

Motive & Method

Tapt Media

62

The First 48

A&E | Crime House

63

British Murders with Stuart Blues

Stuart Blues

64

Death of an Artist

Pushkin Industries

65

Betrayal Weekly

iHeartPodcasts | Glass Podcasts

66

Serialously with Annie Elise

Annie Elise

67

Intrigue

BBC Radio 4

68

MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

Audible Original | Ballen Studios

69

Swindled

Swindled

70

The Surgeon Of St Helena

Always True Crime

71

The Gilded Rage

AYR Media

72

One Minute Remaining - Stories from the inmates

Jack Laurence

73

Australian Murder

Michael Adams

74

Someone Knows Something

CBC

75

Crime World

Crime World

76

BABY

Particle Entertainment and Wavland

77

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

78

Examined: The Backfire Effect

Pushkin Industries

79

Deep Cover

Pushkin Industries

80

Who Killed Angel Harris?

ID

81

霓达播客

霓达播台NidaMedia

82

The Adam Shand Collection

Podshape

83

UK True Crime Podcast

Always True Crime

84

Sword and Scale

Sword and Scale

85

In Her Defence: Breach of Trust

The Globe and Mail

86

Crime at Bedtime

Jack Laurence

87

Murder In America

Bloody FM

88

Disclosure Investigates

BBC Radio Scotland

89

Badge of Betrayal

Podshape

90

10 to Life

Annie Elise

91

Pretty Scary with Clair Buckley

Audio Always

92

Something Was Wrong

Broken Cycle Media

93

Strangely

Always True Crime

94

Clues with Kaelyn Moore

Crime House

95

The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook

Isla Traquair

96

Life and Crimes with Andrew Rule

True Crime Australia

97

Dark Downeast

Audiochuck

98

What to Carry, What to Burn

Blair Braverman

99

Sandra Birchmore case — Matthew Farwell trial: Commonwealth Confidential

NBC10 Boston

100

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

Heart Starts Pounding

101

The Vanished Podcast

Audible Original

102

Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia

TNT / Cadence13

103

Murder: True Crime Stories

Crime House

104

Motive: Mr Lyttle Meets Mr Big

RNZ

105

The Truth About Natalie

Audiochuck

106

Dateline Originals

NBC News

107

Canadian True Crime

Kristi Lee

108

重重电波

小烘、王王

109

Cyber Hack

BBC World Service

110

What Happened To Annie?

Sky News

111

Proof: A True Crime Podcast

Red Marble Media

112

The Real Dracula

Audible Original

113

The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight

iHeartPodcasts and Novel

114

Psychopedia: True Crime & Criminal Psychology

Investigator Slater

115

Cruel Summer: The Violent Death of Tiffany Valiante

Wavland and Street Smart Audio

116

Shandee's Story

The Australian

117

Crime Weekly

Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur

118

Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast

Moms and Mysteries Podcast

119

Lines of Enquiry

GoLoud

120

Sick to Death

The Australian

121

Murder With My Husband

OH NO MEDIA

122

Anatomy of Murder

Audiochuck

123

Heist at the Louvre

ABC News

124

The Night Driver

The Australian

125

The Mushroom Trial: Say Grace

Tapt Podcasts

126

Up and Vanished

Tenderfoot TV

127

Witness: Perfect Alibi

news.com.au

128

Bedtime Stories

Bedtime Stories | Daylight Media

129

Deceived: The Daybell Story

KSL Podcasts

130

Dark Asia with Megan

Megan Lee, Bleav

131

CONmunity Podcast

Sarah Ferris Media

132

True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics

SPYSCAPE

133

Catching Evil

Andy Byrne & Mark Llewellyn

134

To Live and Die in LA

Tenderfoot TV & Audacy

135

Killer Psyche

Audible Original | Treefort Media

136

Murder in the Heartland

ID

137

The Cult Queen of Canada

CBC

138

The Lets Read Podcast

Audioboom Studios

139

PRETEND

Creative Babble, LLC

140

Crime Scene

Sony Music Entertainment

141

Forensic Files

HLN

142

True Crime Garage

TRUE CRIME GARAGE

143

Untold Stories (A Guilt Podcast)

Ryan Wolf

144

Foundling

The Observer

145

Morbidology

Morbidology

146

Alexander Brothers: STS Files

Joel Waldman

147

Watching Two Detectives

Evergreen Podcasts & Sarah Ferris Media

148

Seeing Red A True Crime Podcast

Always True Crime

149

Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast

Cryptic County

150

The Detective’s Dilemma

Casefile Presents

151

The Glitch

Podshape

152

13th Juror Podcast

Brandi Churchwell

153

Death Island

iHeartPodcasts

154

True Crime All The Time

Emash Digital

155

Troubled Waters

Casefile Presents

156

Our Little Edey – The Eden Westbrook Story

Podshape

157

The Scream Murder: A True Teen Horror Story

ABC News

158

CounterClock

Audiochuck

159

Chasing Charlie

Fremantle Australia

160

Inside Murder Trial

BBC Radio Scotland

161

Hunting the Suicide Salesman

CBC

162

Serving Crime Podcast

SNG Productions

163

Trace of Suspicion

NBC News

164

The Troubles Podcast

Oisin Feeney

165

The Piketon Massacre

iHeartPodcasts

166

The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories

Grip Tape

167

DNA: ID

AbJack Entertainment

168

Matter of Crime

Jenny Eastwood

169

Nightmares

Sword and Scale

170

东方快车

唐宋不在元明清

171

Criminally Online

Lemonada Media

172

The Idiot

Serial Productions & The New York Times

173

Gruesome: Horrific True Crime

gruesomepodcast

174

Wisecrack

Tenderfoot TV and iHeartPodcasts

175

Long Story Short

Adam Dudding & Eugene Bingham

176

Standoff: What Happened at Ruby Ridge?

Slate Podcasts

177

Nellie's Baby

RNZ

178

Virginia I The Age & SMH Investigates

The Age and Sydney Morning Herald

179

The Snare

ABC News

180

Detectives Don't Sleep

NOISER

181

REAL

Naomi Channell

182

Homicide 360

Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger | Daylight Media

183

Small Town Dicks

Small Town Dicks | Audio 99 | Daylight Media

184

Al-Fayed: Who Looked Away?

The Crime Desk

185

The Trial: USA

The Crime Desk

186

Invisible Choir

Reach Freaks

187

Into The Dark

OH NO MEDIA

188

Just Creepy: Scary Stories

Just Creepy

189

Evil By Design

CBC

190

The Crime Agents

Global

191

Generation Why: True Crime

Audible Original

192

The Deck

Audiochuck

193

Unsolved

RTÉ

194

The Prosecutors

PodcastOne

195

The Trial: Australia

The Crime Desk

196

Two Crime Besties

TCB Productions

197

Believe in Magic

BBC Studios

198

REDRUM true crime

redrumpodcast

199

True Crime New Zealand (NZ)

True Crime New Zealand

200

The Coldest Case In Laramie

Serial Productions & The New York Times

201

Searching for Sarah MacDiarmid

Casefile Presents

202

LOVE MURDER

Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette

203

The Most Wanted Olympian from Suspicion

Toronto Star

204

Dead Famous

Mark Randell

205

I Am Not Nicholas

BBC Studios

206

Secrets of the Underworld

Podshape

207

Noah Donohoe: The Search for Truth

Emporium Productions

208

NOT GUILTY - The Craig McLachlan Case

Vanessa Scammell

209

Rorschach: Murder at City Hall

iHeartPodcasts and Best Case

210

Frozen Head

Audible

211

Rotten Apple

Tapt Media

212

Who R U? Curious Stories of Family Lore

Wietze and Sam

213

The Secret History of Flight 149

Crowd Network

214

West Cork

yarn fm

215

The Last Voyage of the Pong Su

The Age and Sydney Morning Herald

216

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

217

Going West: True Crime

Dark West Productions

218

Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery Podcast

Mark

219

Wild Boys

Campside Media / Sony Music Entertainment

220

Chameleon

Audiochuck | Campside Media

221

Court Junkie

PodcastOne

222

Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling

BBC Radio 5 Live

223

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

224

Island Crime

Laura Palmer

225

American Nightmares: The Canal Murders

Gamut Podcast Network

226

Cover

BBC Radio 5 Live

227

The Devil's Apprentice

True Crime Australia

228

On Trial Australia

Tapt Media

229

Murder Mile UK True Crime

Always True Crime

230

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter, Jac Vanek

231

Five Miles From Home

NBC News

232

People are the Worst

Cloud10

233

The Lost Boy

Stuff Audio

234

The Survivor Files with Elizabeth Smart

iHeartPodcasts

235

Spy Affair

Audible Original

236

Gangster

BBC Radio 5 Live

237

PLOT HOUSE

Lottie & Studio Bummens

238

Hide and Seek

James Baysinger

239

Mystery and Murder: Analysis by Dr. Phil

Dr. Phil McGraw

240

True Crime Obsessed

True Crime Obsessed

241

Terry Stone Connection

Terry Stone Connection

242

Lost Hills

Pushkin Industries

243

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast

Ray William Johnson

244

生人勿近

春典

245

Outlore with Eleanor Neale

Eleanor Neale

246

Out from the Cold: Searching for Elaine

Happy Tuesday Productions

247

LISK: Long Island Serial Killer

Mopac Audio & Glassbox Media

248

Scared To Death

Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins

249

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

250

Crime in America with Joe Budden

Prime Crime Productions

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