Top True Crime Podcasts in South Africa

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

1

Crime Junkie

Audiochuck

2

Rotten Mango

Stephanie Soo

3

Dateline NBC

NBC News

4

MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories

Ballen Studios

5

48 Hours

48 Hours

6

True Crime South Africa

Killer Audio Creations

7

Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast

Ray William Johnson

8

True Crime with Kendall Rae

Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios

9

Morbid

Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart

10

Betrayal Season 6

iHeartPodcasts | Glass Podcasts

11

Casefile True Crime

Casefile Presents

12

RedHanded

RedHanded

13

Snapped: Women Who Murder

Oxygen

14

20/20

ABC News

15

Ada

Casefile Presents

16

Serialously with Annie Elise

Annie Elise

17

Murder With My Husband

OH NO MEDIA

18

Park Predators

Audiochuck

19

Missing Debbie | Bed of Lies

The Telegraph

20

My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

21

Love Trapped

iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts

22

Into The Dark

OH NO MEDIA

23

Serial Killers & Murderous Minds

Crime House

24

Huisgenoot Ware Lewensdramas

Huisgenoot

25

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

26

True Crime South Africa

Killer Audio Creations

27

Forensic Files

HLN

28

Bear Brook

NHPR

29

10 to Life

Annie Elise

30

In The Dark

The New Yorker

31

The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions

Sony Music Entertainment

32

Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter

Crime House

33

The Woman in the Woods

48 Hours

34

The Poisoned Wife

The Australian

35

Profiler: True Crime Africa

plotshift.co.za

36

The Lets Read Podcast

Audioboom Studios

37

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

38

Murder, Mystery & Makeup

Audioboom Studios

39

They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime

They Walk Among Us

40

The First 48

A&E | Crime House

41

Over My Dead Body

Audible Original

42

The Dropout

ABC News

43

Dateline Originals

NBC News

44

The Criminal Makeup

Danielle Kirsty

45

Crime Weekly

Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur

46

Burden of Guilt

iHeartPodcasts | Glass Podcasts

47

I Survived

A&E / PodcastOne

48

The Most Wanted Olympian from Uncover

CBC

49

Dr. Death

Audible Original

50

True Crime Conversations

Mamamia Podcasts

51

Crime, Conspiracy, Cults and Murder

Kallmekris | Daylight Media

52

Deceived: The Daybell Story

KSL Podcasts

53

The Bourne Investigation

Charley Bourne

54

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

55

The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories

Grip Tape

56

What Happened to Her

iHeartPodcasts

57

Clues with Kaelyn Moore

Crime House

58

Dark Asia with Megan

Megan Lee, Bleav

59

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

Heart Starts Pounding

60

Your Own Backyard

Chris Lambert

61

Killer Psyche

Audible Original | Treefort Media

62

Psychopedia: True Crime & Criminal Psychology

Investigator Slater

63

Murder: True Crime Stories

Crime House

64

Just Creepy: Scary Stories

Just Creepy

65

MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

Audible Original | Ballen Studios

66

Something Was Wrong

Broken Cycle Media

67

Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén

Spotify Studios

68

I Wish You Were Here

Michelle Cuervo

69

Crime Analyst

Laura Richards

70

True Crime South Africa – die Afrikaanse weergawe

JacPod

71

The Deck

Audiochuck

72

Not Just A Terrible Story

Terrible Story Productions

73

Mile Higher

Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios

74

Serving Crime Podcast

SNG Productions

75

Sword and Scale

Sword and Scale

76

The Slippery

Nancy Moscatiello and Scott Eldridge

77

Going West: True Crime

Dark West Productions

78

Crime Next Door

BBC Sounds

79

Criminology

Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford

80

Last Podcast On The Left

The Last Podcast Network

81

Anatomy of Murder

Audiochuck

82

Nightmare Next Door

ID

83

Lights Out

Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios

84

The Surgeon Of St Helena

Always True Crime

85

Murder In America

Bloody FM

86

Detectives Don't Sleep

NOISER

87

Dark Downeast

Audiochuck

88

Crime House 24/7

Crime House

89

Sea of Lies

CBC

90

UK True Crime Podcast

Always True Crime

91

True Crime Obsessed

True Crime Obsessed

92

Outlore with Eleanor Neale

Eleanor Neale

93

America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring

Crime House

94

Unravel

ABC Australia

95

Crime in America with Joe Budden

Prime Crime Productions

96

What Happened to the McStays?

ABC News

97

Homicide 360

Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger | Daylight Media

98

Pretty Scary with Clair Buckley

Audio Always

99

What to Carry, What to Burn

Blair Braverman

100

Up and Vanished

Tenderfoot TV

101

My Mom’s Murder

AYR Media

102

Alone in the Woods

Eeriecast Network

103

The Casual Criminalist

Cloud10

104

PRETEND

Creative Babble, LLC

105

True Crime All The Time

Emash Digital

106

Trace of Suspicion

NBC News

107

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

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

108

Royal Swindle

Exactly Right Media and iHeartPodcasts

109

Last Seen Alive

Studio 222

110

Betrayal Weekly

iHeartPodcasts | Glass Podcasts

111

British Murders with Stuart Blues

Stuart Blues

112

Bad Blood: The Final Chapter

Sony Music Entertainment

113

Crime Junkie

Crime Junkie

114

Tales from the Break Room

Eeriecast Network

115

Nightmares

Sword and Scale

116

Australian True Crime

Bravecasting

117

LOVE MURDER

Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette

118

Scared To Death

Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins

119

Huisgenoot Ware Lewensdramas

Huisgenoot

120

True Crime with Kimbyr

Kimbyrleigha

121

Deep Cover

Pushkin Industries

122

Hot On The Case

Breanna Heim

123

Crimes of the Times

L.A. Times Studios

124

The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight

iHeartPodcasts and Novel

125

The Snare

ABC News

126

True Crime Garage

TRUE CRIME GARAGE

127

American Nightmares: The Canal Murders

Gamut Podcast Network

128

COLD

KSL Podcasts

129

The Piketon Massacre

iHeartPodcasts

130

There and Gone: South Street

iHeartPodcasts

131

People are the Worst

Cloud10

132

The Survivor Files with Elizabeth Smart

iHeartPodcasts

133

Hunting the Suicide Salesman

CBC

134

Shadow of Doubt

The Australian

135

MANslaughter

Wondery

136

Unsolved

RTÉ

137

REDRUM true crime

redrumpodcast

138

Someone Knows Something

CBC

139

I Think Not!

I Think Not!

140

Swindled

Swindled

141

The Case Of

ABC Australia

142

Invisible Choir

Reach Freaks

143

Seeing Red A True Crime Podcast

Always True Crime

144

To Live and Die in LA

Tenderfoot TV & Audacy

145

Serial Killers: Real Life Documentaries

Peter Zahr

146

Wicked Crimes

Jan Roodt

147

Crime Beat

Curiouscast

148

Detective Perspective

Derrick Levasseur & Square Mile Studios

149

Bang to Rights

Bang to Rights

150

Crime Scene

Sony Music Entertainment

151

Examined: The Backfire Effect

Pushkin Industries

152

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

SPYSCAPE

153

The Retrievals

Serial Productions & The New York Times

154

Chameleon

Audiochuck | Campside Media

155

The Scream Murder: A True Teen Horror Story

ABC News

156

The Trial: Russell Brand

The Crime Desk

157

Mystery and Murder: Analysis by Dr. Phil

Dr. Phil McGraw

158

Legally Brunette

iHeartPodcasts

159

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

160

Every Town

Every Town

161

The Truth About Natalie

Audiochuck

162

Murder in the Heartland

ID

163

Bone Valley

Lava for Good Podcasts

164

Unsolved Mysteries

Unsolved Media, Inc. + Audacy

165

Murder in Illinois

iHeartPodcasts

166

The Sinister Podcast

Sinistergan

167

Dead Sleep: True Crime for Bedtime

Nancy Miller

168

CounterClock

Audiochuck

169

The Final Hours with Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole

Crime House

170

American Criminal

Airship & Evergreen Podcasts

171

Big Mad True Crime

Big Mad Media

172

Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast

Moms and Mysteries Podcast

173

Disclosure Investigates

BBC Radio Scotland

174

The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3

iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch

175

Dead Famous

Mark Randell

176

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

CrimeOnline and iHeartPodcasts

177

The Real Dracula

Audible

178

Cyber Hack

BBC World Service

179

Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast

Cryptic County

180

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter, Jac Vanek

181

Crime Salad

Realm

182

Valley of Shadows

Pushkin Industries

183

Crime Fix with Angenette Levy

Law&Crime

184

Sandra Birchmore case — Matthew Farwell trial: Commonwealth Confidential

NBC10 Boston

185

Bronwyn

The Australian

186

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187

Killer Kin

ID

188

DNA: ID

AbJack Entertainment

189

CreepTime The Podcast

Sylas Dean and Stew

190

Bedtime Stories

Bedtime Stories | Daylight Media

191

Who Killed Angel Harris?

ID

192

Cults

Spotify Studios

193

Ghost Story

Audible Original | Pineapple Street Studios

194

Wicked Words - A True Crime Talk Show with Kate Winkler Dawson

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

195

Crimelines® True Crime

Crimelines True Crime

196

13th Juror Podcast

Brandi Churchwell

197

The Adults in the Room

libo/libo

198

Scorned: Love Kills

ID

199

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast

Rhapsody Voices

200

The Vanished Podcast

Audible

201

Small Town Dicks

Small Town Dicks | Audio 99 | Daylight Media

202

Our True Crime Podcast

Our True Crime Podcast

203

Killer Story

Sony Music Entertainment

204

Morrison Mysteries

NBC News

205

Down The Hill: The Delphi Murders

HLN

206

Generation Why: True Crime

Audible Original

207

The Storyteller: Narcissist's Playbook

Isla Traquair

208

Blood Trails

MeatEater

209

Criminal Attorney

Audible

210

Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry

Curiouscast

211

Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery Podcast

Mark

212

Five Miles From Home

NBC News

213

Murder & Mystery Mzansi | South African True Crime

Savannah

214

Scamanda

Lionsgate Sound

215

Alexander Brothers: STS Files

Joel Waldman

216

Truly Criminal

Truly Criminal

217

Miss Marple Detective Stories

Sezgin

218

Kingdom of Fraud

iHeartPodcasts

219

Kendall Rae

kendal rae

220

MK True Crime

MK Media

221

Michael Caine: Gangs

Audible

222

The Disappearance of Katie Walker

AIIMS Creator Hub

223

I Catch Killers with Gary Jubelin

News.com.au

224

Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast

CAKE MEDIA

225

Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo

CBC

226

American Justice

A&E | PodcastOne

227

Evil By Design

CBC

228

Easy Prey

Chris Parker

229

Shandee's Story

The Australian

230

The Poppy Day Bomb

The Times

231

Mother Knows Murder

Crime House

232

小宇宙

嘎嘎&米漿

233

Crime World

Crime World

234

True Crime All The Time Unsolved

PodcastOne

235

Canadian True Crime

Kristi Lee

236

Forensic Files II

HLN

237

Morbidology

Morbidology

238

Dateline: Missing in America

NBC News

239

The Con: Kaitlyn's Baby

CBC + BBC World Service

240

The Betrayal of Shohei Ohtani

ESPN

241

TRUE CRIME 187

Jacqueline Belle, Dr. Alexander Stevens

242

Cruel Summer: The Violent Death of Tiffany Valiante

Wavland and Street Smart Audio

243

COERCED: The Devotion & Death of Mica Francis Miller

LUNASHARK®⁠

244

Prime Crime: Solved Murders

Spotify Studios

245

True Crime Reports

Al Jazeera

246

Al-Fayed: Who Looked Away?

The Crime Desk

247

This Is Monsters

Kompound

248

Serial Killer: A True Crime Podcast

Unreported Story Society

249

Strictly Stalking

Strictly Stalking

250

Crossing the Line with M. William Phelps

M. William Phelps

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