Best True Crime Podcasts 2026

The Joe Rogan Experience

3x/week

The world's biggest podcast. Three-hour conversations with everyone from scientists to comedians to world leaders. Unfiltered and unpredictable.

→ WHAT IT COVERS Dean Radin, Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, presents 150 years of controlled laboratory evidence for telepathy,

Revisionist History

Weekly

Malcolm Gladwell re-examines the past to challenge what we think we know. History as a tool for rethinking the present.

→ WHAT IT COVERS Malcolm Gladwell and colleagues conduct a forensic analysis of Disney's Zootopia 2, arguing the film contains deliberate visual and n

Drug Story

Monthly

Deep dives into the stories behind breakthrough drugs — how they were discovered, developed, and brought to patients. Narrative-driven and accessible to non-specialists.

→ WHAT IT COVERS Tim Harford traces the rise of Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, a 20% alcohol herbal tonic marketed to women in the 1870s-1900s, e