Top True Crime Podcasts in South Africa

The latest Apple Podcasts True Crime chart for South Africa, refreshed throughout the day. Last checked September 6, 2026.

1

Rotten Mango

Stephanie Soo

2

Crime Junkie

Audiochuck

3

MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories

Ballen Studios

4

RedHanded

RedHanded

5

True Crime South Africa

Killer Audio Creations

6

48 Hours

CBS News

7

True Crime with Kendall Rae

Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios

8

Dateline NBC

NBC News

9

Casefile True Crime

Casefile Presents

10

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast

Ray William Johnson

11

Morbid

Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart

12

Betrayal Weekly

iHeartPodcasts | Glass Podcasts

13

Snapped: Women Who Murder

Oxygen

14

Love Trapped

iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts

15

Serialously with Annie Elise

Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios

16

Intrigue

BBC Radio 4

17

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

18

My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

19

COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller

LUNASHARK®⁠

20

Forensic Files

HLN

21

Park Predators

Audiochuck

22

Serial Killers & Murderous Minds

Crime House

23

Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter

Crime House

24

20/20

ABC News

25

Murder With My Husband

OH NO MEDIA

26

Crime, Conspiracy, Cults and Murder

Kallmekris | Daylight Media

27

The Deck

Audiochuck

28

What Happened to the McStays?

ABC News

29

The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook

Isla Traquair

30

The Lindsay Clancy Trial: Commonwealth Confidential

NBC10 Boston

31

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

32

The Bourne Investigation

Charley Bourne

33

True Crime South Africa

Killer Audio Creations

34

10 to Life

Annie Elise

35

Full Trial Audio: Lindsay Clancy Triple Murder

Full Trial Audio

36

Dateline Originals

NBC News

37

The Criminal Makeup

Danielle Kirsty

38

The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?

Sony Music Entertainment

39

Sword and Scale

Sword and Scale

40

The Lets Read Podcast

Audioboom Studios

41

The Binge Cases: What She Buried

Sony Music Entertainment

42

Cyber Hack

BBC World Service

43

The Truth About Natalie

Audiochuck

44

The Survivor Files with Elizabeth Smart

iHeartPodcasts

45

I Wish You Were Here

Michelle Cuervo

46

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore

Crime House

47

Murder In America

Bloody FM

48

Mile Higher

Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios

49

Last Podcast On The Left

The Last Podcast Network

50

Betrayal Seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

iHeartPodcasts | Glass Podcasts

51

Dark Downeast

Audiochuck

52

Deep Cover

Pushkin Industries

53

Crime Weekly

Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur

54

America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring

Crime House

55

Murder: True Crime Stories

Crime House

56

Profiler: True Crime Africa

plotshift.co.za

57

Death of an Artist

Pushkin Industries

58

True Crime Conversations

Mamamia Podcasts

59

Anatomy of Murder

Audiochuck

60

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

Heart Starts Pounding

61

True Crime All The Time

Emash Digital

62

Australian True Crime

Bravecasting

63

Burden of Guilt

iHeartPodcasts | Glass Podcasts

64

Crime Next Door

BBC Sounds

65

The Casual Criminalist

Cloud10

66

Killer Psyche

Audible | Treefort Media

67

The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories

Grip Tape

68

Outlore with Eleanor Neale

Eleanor Neale

69

The Poisoned Wife

The Australian

70

Murder, Mystery & Makeup

Audioboom Studios

71

Chameleon

Audiochuck | Campside Media

72

Something Was Wrong

Broken Cycle Media

73

REDRUM true crime

redrumpodcast

74

Into The Dark

OH NO MEDIA

75

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

76

The Surgeon Of St Helena

Always True Crime

77

Huisgenoot Ware Lewensdramas

Huisgenoot

78

Murder in the Heartland

ID

79

I Survived

A&E / PodcastOne

80

The Perfect Collapse: Lindsay Clancy

Change the Choice Productions

81

Hot On The Case

Breanna Heim

82

Huisgenoot Ware Lewensdramas

Huisgenoot

83

Going West: True Crime

Dark West Productions

84

To Live and Die in LA

Tenderfoot TV & Audacy

85

Unravel

ABC Australia

86

Crime Analyst

Laura Richards

87

Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén

Spotify Studios

88

The Prosecutors

PodcastOne

89

True Sunlight

LUNASHARK®⁠

90

Homicide 360

Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger | Daylight Media

91

Dark Asia with Megan

Megan Lee, Bleav

92

Psychopedia: True Crime & Criminal Psychology

Investigator Slater

93

Burden of Proof: Luigi Mangione

ABC News

94

Scared To Death

Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins

95

Small Town Dicks

Small Town Dicks | Audio 99 | Daylight Media

96

Just Creepy: Scary Stories

Just Creepy

97

In The Dark

The New Yorker

98

MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

Audible | Ballen Studios

99

True Crime Obsessed

True Crime Obsessed

100

The Trial: USA

The Crime Desk

101

Detectives Don't Sleep

NOISER

102

British Murders with Stuart Blues

Stuart Blues

103

Crime House 24/7

Crime House

104

Deadly Nightmares

ID

105

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

106

Blink | Jake Haendel's Story

Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel

107

PRETEND

Creative Babble, LLC

108

Lights Out

Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios

109

Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast

Cryptic County

110

Dateline: Missing in America

NBC News

111

Dr. Insanity

Dr Insanity

112

Your Own Backyard

Chris Lambert

113

Nightmares

Sword and Scale

114

Bone Valley

Lava for Good Podcasts

115

Nobody Should Believe Me

True Story Media

116

They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime

They Walk Among Us

117

West Cork

yarn fm

118

Malevolent Mischief: True Stories of Horror

Malevolent Mischief

119

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

True Crime Today

120

City Confidential

A&E | PodcastOne

121

Women and Crime

Cloud10

122

Court Junkie

PodcastOne

123

Alone in the Woods

Eeriecast Network

124

True Crime with Kimbyr

Kimbyrleigha

125

Someone Knows Something

CBC

126

Royal Swindle

Exactly Right Media and iHeartPodcasts

127

National Park After Dark

Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian

128

The Mile Zero Murders from Uncover

CBC

129

Hysterical Women: women's mental health crises and the media that defines them

hysterical women podcast

130

Buried Evidence

The Crime Desk

131

Serial Killing : A Podcast

Elissa Kerrill

132

Nightmare Next Door

ID

133

Fear Thy Neighbor

ID

134

Trace of Suspicion

NBC News

135

Generation Why: True Crime

Audible

136

Swindled

Swindled

137

Five Miles From Home

NBC News

138

Crime World

Crime World

139

What to Carry, What to Burn

Blair Braverman

140

Crime Scene

Sony Music Entertainment

141

Invisible Choir

Reach Freaks

142

Hunting the Suicide Salesman

CBC

143

Crime Salad

BLACKCAT | Realm

144

Crime Fix with Angenette Levy

Law&Crime

145

DELVE

newsroom.co.nz

146

True Crime South Africa – die Afrikaanse weergawe

JacPod

147

Dan Taberski's Manifesto

Audible

148

Murder and Mayhem: South African True Crime

Bella Monsoon

149

Bang to Rights

Bang to Rights

150

The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall

CBC

151

Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast

Moms and Mysteries Podcast

152

MK True Crime

MK Media

153

My Only Story

Deon Wiggett

154

UK True Crime Podcast

Always True Crime

155

This Feels Criminal: A True Crime Podcast (Formerly Killer Queens)

This Feels Criminal | Formerly Killer Queens

156

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

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

157

Audible True Crime

Audible

158

Lady Mafia

Sony Music Entertainment

159

Bridge of Lies

ABC News

160

Monster: Hunting the Long Island Serial Killer

iHeartPodcasts and Tenderfoot TV

161

Up and Vanished

Tenderfoot TV

162

The Box of Oddities

Kat & Jethro Gilligan Toth

163

Truly Criminal

Truly Criminal

164

LOVE MURDER

Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette

165

Forensic Files II

HLN

166

CounterClock

Audiochuck

167

Sick to Death

The Australian

168

On the Case with Paula Zahn Podcast

On the Case with Paula Zahn Podcast

169

Bedtime Stories

Bedtime Stories | Daylight Media

170

Hidden True Crime

Hidden True Crime | Daylight Media

171

The Epstein Files

NBN.fm

172

13th Juror Podcast

Brandi Churchwell

173

Blood and Water

ABC News

174

Devil Town

Free Range Productions

175

Deadly Mirage

NBC News

176

No Man's Land: A True Crime Horror Podcast

John Hulme

177

Two Girls Investigate Crime

Izzie Strader and Jillian Taglialatela

178

The First 48

A&E | Crime House

179

Fair Game

Leah Remini & Mike Rinder

180

Not Another Crime Podcast

iHeartAustralia

181

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter, Jac Vanek

182

True Crime Garage

TRUE CRIME GARAGE

183

Crime and Coffee Couple - True Crime Podcast

Allison and Mike

184

The Final Hours with Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole

Crime House

185

Missing on 9/11

iHeartPodcasts

186

Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast

CAKE MEDIA

187

Foul Play

Audible | Gabriel Gatehouse

188

The Consult: Real FBI Profilers

PodcastOne

189

The Last 12 Weeks

Serial Productions & The New York Times

190

48 Hours: Case by Case

CBS News

191

Mystery and Murder: Analysis by Dr. Phil

Dr. Phil McGraw

192

Dr. Death

Audible

193

Shaun Attwoods True Crime Podcast

Shaun Attwood Podcast

194

Amanda Knox Hosts | DOUBT: The Case of Lucy Letby

iHeartPodcasts

195

The Deck Investigates

Audiochuck

196

KAREN: THE RETRIAL

Law&Crime | Wondery

197

Beyond All Repair: The Clancy Trial

WBUR

198

The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast

Always True Crime

199

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

CrimeOnline and iHeartPodcasts

200

The Case Of

ABC Australia

201

I Think Not!

I Think Not!

202

Scorned: Love Kills

ID

203

What Came Next

Broken Cycle Media

204

The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight

iHeartPodcasts and Novel

205

Gone South

Audacy Podcasts

206

Law & Order: Criminal Justice System - Season 1 & Season 2

iHeartPodcasts

207

Serial Killers: Real Life Documentaries

Peter Zahr

208

Courtroom Confidential

Joshua Ritter

209

Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley

BBC Radio 4

210

The Con: Kaitlyn's Baby

CBC + BBC World Service

211

Over My Dead Body

Audible

212

Dead Sleep: True Crime for Bedtime

Nancy Miller

213

Bronwyn

The Australian

214

Highway to Hell

Monte Mader

215

People are the Worst

Cloud10

216

Morbidology

Morbidology

217

City of Lights

Willy Nast

218

Wicked and Grim: A True Crime Podcast

Ben Gibson

219

Stalked

BBC Sounds

220

Crimelines® True Crime

Crimelines True Crime

221

Kingdom of Fraud

iHeartPodcasts

222

Mind of a Monster: The Hollywood Ripper

ID

223

It Happened Here

ReadyFreddie

224

The Man in the Black Mask

NBC News

225

I Catch Killers with Gary Jubelin

News.com.au

226

Crimehub: A True Crime Podcast

Crimehub Studios

227

Trial by Water

The Age and Sydney Morning Herald

228

The Vanished Podcast

Audible

229

Every Town

Every Town

230

Cold Blooded: Mystery in Alaska

ABC News

231

Canadian True Crime

Kristi Lee | Canadian True Crime

232

The Dropout

ABC News

233

Snook

Unknown

234

Unseen

Unknown

235

Blunt Force Trauma

EchoSpace

236

Audiobooks Make Multitasking More Enjoyable Through Captivating Storytelling and Emotional Literary Adventures

Sound Stories

237

Our True Crime Podcast

Our True Crime Podcast

238

Killer Kin

ID

239

Rise N' Crime

OH NO MEDIA

240

Mafia

Audioboom Studios

241

The Preventionist

Serial Productions & The New York Times

242

Mort's Scary Bedtime Stories

Mortis Media

243

Scammer Stories

April

244

Believable: The Coco Berthmann Story

Dear Media

245

Strange But True Crime

BBC Local Radio

246

Scary Mysteries

Scary Mysteries

247

The Lost Boy

Stuff Audio

248

Who Took Misty Copsey?

ID

249

Verdwenen

NPO Luister / EO

250

I Am Not Nicholas

BBC Studios

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