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March 5, 2024:
    Nordic Crimes is new today from Nils Bergman, the creator of Rättegångspodden, Sweden's largest commercial podcast - but this new series will be in English, looking at crimes across the five Nordic countries. From Acast, the first season will look at Finland's criminal history from the 1970s to the present day.
February 5, 2024:
January 22, 2024:
    From Airwave: Season 3 of The Art of Crime is titled Queen of Crime: Madame Tussaud and the Chamber of Horrors. It chronicles Madame Tussaud’s long and distinguished career, kicking off in pre-revolutionary France and wrapping up in Victorian London; and charts the evolution of the Chamber of Horrors, a special showroom in Tussaud's wax museum that displayed effigies of notorious criminals. Just as each episode advances the narrative of Tussaud’s life story, each is also structured around at least one noteworthy criminal or crime depicted in the Chamber.
January 10, 2024:
December 19, 2023:
    Hot Money: The New Narcos is new from Puskhin and the Financial Times. The show examines the rise and fall of a Dubai-based super cartel, a network of European criminal entrepreneurs believed to control a third of Europe’s drug market. It turns out that the crime bosses aren't just hiding from governments, but working alongside them.
November 21, 2023:
September 6, 2023:
    "Criminal gangs behind a rise in bombings and shootings in Sweden in recent years are using fake Spotify streams to launder money", is the unusual claim in Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. The article, reported in The Guardian, suggests that Swedish gangster rap is actually funding Swedish gangsters. Spotify says it has not found “any data or hard evidence that indicates that the platform is being used at scale in the fashion described”.
August 16, 2023:
    Part of the Airwave podcast network: Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast looks at true-life tales of crime, criminals, tragedies and disasters through history - with historians and authors who have studied their subjects for years. Gangsters, gunslingers and serial killers are all here, with host Erik Rivenes.
August 7, 2023:
    Wanted is new from Jack Laurence, featuring interviews with intriguing people who have been - or are currently - wanted by authorities in connection with alleged criminal activities.
August 3, 2023:
    Shattering the System is new from iHeart and Macro today. The show is hosted by pioneering audio journalist Sonari Glinton - drawing from his decades covering politics and the economy, Sonari exposes the systems making it possible for criminals of all kinds to get away with the unthinkable. The system isn't just broken - but shattered.
June 23, 2023:
    Vox Media's Criminal has launched Criminal Plus, a subscription product that will offer additional benefits including a quarterly subscriber-only virtual event, free and discounted merchandise, and more.
June 21, 2023:
March 16, 2023:
    Swindled launches its seventh season on Sunday. A top twenty show, the true crime podcast dedicated to exposing the greediest of white collar criminals, con artists and corporate evil. It's repped by AdLarge.
February 8, 2023:
    Richard Wiseman’s On Your Mind is new today from Podimo and TellTale Industries. Professor Richard Wiseman holds the UK’s only professorship in the public understanding of psychology. The series starts with criminal barrister and broadcaster Rob Rinder asking if there's a secret to becoming a human lie detector.
February 1, 2023:
    Crime Analyst has joined the AdLarge podcast portfolio. The show is hosted by world-renowned former New Scotland Yard criminal behavioral analyst, Laura Richards. Cathy Csukas, CEO of AdLarge, describes the show as acutely focused, smart and informative.
January 30, 2023:
    Available: Until recently, Joel Callen was the lead writer/showrunner on Parcast's Serial Killers and Female Criminals. "I've got over a decade's experience as a writer, and am looking for a full-time writing/editing position."
January 27, 2023:
    A San Francisco meditation company, which was described as a criminal cult in a BBC podcast, has failed in an attempt to sue for libel. A similar claim by an individual practitioner, Rachel Cherwitz, has been allowed to proceed. The case continues.
January 13, 2023:
    Code Name Siren launched yesterday - a new true crime show from Storic Media. It's hosted by Nina Hobson, a former UK police detective and owner of a global private investigation firm who's seen it all: murder, human trafficking, and billion-dollar money laundering schemes. You can expect first-hand accounts from psychological experts, operatives, criminal informants, and the victims of the crimes she investigates.
December 16, 2022:
    Luminary's Telephone Stories is now available on all platforms - a show examining the hall of mirrors that was Michael Jackson’s life, painstakingly, sometimes painfully, reconstructing the complex narrative of an iconic and troubled performer haunted by criminal allegations. It was produced by Ninth Planet Audio.
November 30, 2022:
    New from The E.W. Scripps Company, Verified: Full Disclosure is the story of what happens when US law enforcement officials routinely fail to track dishonest and disreputable police officers, disclose their misconduct in criminal cases and hold them accountable. It launched yesterday, and has produced a public, searchable database of dishonest police officers.
October 18, 2022:
    What if California left the United States? If it did, what would happen? Would it usher in a new era of peace and prosperity? Or plunge the US into a new civil war? The Last Resort is new from Warner Music Group’s in-house podcast network, Interval Presents, and looks at Calexit, the campaign for Californian Independence, and how the movement’s founders became entangled in a global criminal conspiracy involving the FBI and Russian Intelligence. It's new today.
July 26, 2022:
    From Pushkin: Bad Women - Coming Oct 11. In February 1942, a very different threat than Hitler stalked the women of London’s theater district: a sadistic killer whose depravity was immediately likened to Jack the Ripper. Using new research from police files, court transcripts and exhaustive genealogical studies, Hallie Rubenhold reconstructs the lives of these murdered women who were ignored as the sex trade and criminality surged in the bomb-ravaged streets of the Blitz.
July 4, 2022:
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June 3, 2022:
May 31, 2022:
    Yesterday, we mentioned a podcast claiming it had the oldest podcast guest of all time, at 92. Records are made to be broken: tomorrow, the new season of Remarkable Stories will start with an interview with Lou Landreth, who's 98. She talks with Mike McDowall about her life, her husbands and her criminal escapades around the globe.
April 19, 2022:
    From Acast: The last episode of Unraveled drops tomorrow, after five seasons; it's an investigation into the most elusive criminal to ever strike - the “one and done killer.” These mysterious offenders commit one brutal murder and disappear back into society, which makes them nearly impossible to catch. But could that be changing?
February 18, 2022:
    JJ Ramberg from Goodpods tells us that "this violates the Goodpods Terms of Service which states that the company may immediately terminate your Goodpods account and you may also be subject to civil or criminal penalties".
February 8, 2022:
January 4, 2022:
    Rob Byers is to join Vox Media's Criminal Productions as fulltime Technical Director. He's currently Director of Broadcast and Media Operations at American Public Media, and a Board Member of AIR; he's been mixing Criminal and This Is Love for many years. Vox Media is hiring for a number of production staff.
November 17, 2021:
November 12, 2021:
    Presented by AdLarge Media: Swindled What’s the worst thing you'd do for money? Join “A Concerned Citizen” as he unravels true stories of white-collar criminals, con artists, and corporate evil. From corruption and fraud to Ponzi schemes and environmental disasters, you don’t want to miss these unimaginable financially-motivated crimes, committed all in the name of greed.
November 11, 2021:
    Presented by AdLarge Media: Swindled What’s the worst thing you'd do for money? Join “A Concerned Citizen” as he unravels true stories of white-collar criminals, con artists, and corporate evil. From corruption and fraud to Ponzi schemes and environmental disasters, you don’t want to miss these unimaginable financially-motivated crimes, committed all in the name of greed.
November 10, 2021:
    Presented by AdLarge Media: Swindled What’s the worst thing you'd do for money? Join “A Concerned Citizen” as he unravels true stories of white-collar criminals, con artists, and corporate evil. From corruption and fraud to Ponzi schemes and environmental disasters, you don’t want to miss these unimaginable financially-motivated crimes, committed all in the name of greed.
November 9, 2021:
    Presented by AdLarge Media: Swindled What’s the worst thing you'd do for money? Join “A Concerned Citizen” as he unravels true stories of white-collar criminals, con artists, and corporate evil. From corruption and fraud to Ponzi schemes and environmental disasters, you don’t want to miss these unimaginable financially-motivated crimes, committed all in the name of greed.
November 8, 2021:
    Presented by AdLarge Media: Swindled What’s the worst thing you'd do for money? Join “A Concerned Citizen” as he unravels true stories of white-collar criminals, con artists, and corporate evil. From corruption and fraud to Ponzi schemes and environmental disasters, you don’t want to miss these unimaginable financially-motivated crimes, committed all in the name of greed.
October 22, 2021:
September 14, 2021:
    Indisputable with Dr. Rashad Richey is a new podcast from TYT, as a result of their partnership with Acast. It launched on Monday, and comments on the top news stories about criminal justice, politics, social justice, policy and racism and welcomes a Conservative into 'The Bullpen' for a fiery debate.
July 13, 2021:
    Killer Psyche is new from Wondery today; Candice DeLong, a former FBI criminal profiler, draws on her decades of experience to reveal why murderers and criminals do what they do. She will reveal fascinating new details about what drove these people, including cases she worked on first-hand, like the Unabomber.
February 4, 2021:
September 30, 2020:
    Will a true-crime podcast cause a criminal trial to never take place? The subject of a popular Australian true-crime podcast, Chris Dawson, has won a delay to his court case, with the judge calling the podcast the “most egregious” example of media interference with a criminal trial process. (The podcast isn't being named in Australian media; many episodes of it have been removed.)
September 22, 2020:
September 16, 2020:
    70 Million is back for Season 3. For its season premiere, 70 Million takes you inside Chicago’s Cook County Jail during a rapid outbreak of COVID-19. Learn of the unprecedented steps officials took to control the outbreak, and how COVID-19 is directly confronting structures within the criminal justice system. Listen to Episode 1. (ad)
September 15, 2020:
    70 Million is back for Season 3. For its season premiere, 70 Million takes you inside Chicago’s Cook County Jail during a rapid outbreak of COVID-19. Learn of the unprecedented steps officials took to control the outbreak, and how COVID-19 is directly confronting structures within the criminal justice system. Listen to Episode 1. (ad)
September 14, 2020:
    70 Million is back for Season 3. For its season premiere, 70 Million takes you inside Chicago’s Cook County Jail during a rapid outbreak of COVID-19. Learn of the unprecedented steps officials took to control the outbreak, and how COVID-19 is directly confronting structures within the criminal justice system. Listen to Episode 1. (ad)
September 10, 2020:
August 28, 2020:
    In a world where we are so dependent on our phones, our computers and the internet, what happens when you don’t protect yourself online? Criminal Domain is a new podcast from Ampel, talking to victims of cyber crime in a podcast presented by NortonLifeLock.
June 26, 2020:
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June 18, 2020:
April 1, 2020:
    This is Love returns for season four, with six new stories about animals, including the family drama of rival wolfpacks, a dog who guides his owner out of a tragedy, a retired Central Park police horse, and tiny ice fish in Antarctica who save a woman's life. This Is Love is created and produced by the team behind the podcast Criminal.
February 24, 2020:
    Paul Bae has announced he is to produce two original fiction series for Spotify. Meanwhile, music website Digital Music News dialed up the pressure on Spotify's bootleg podcasts problem. "One cannot help wondering how much longer the world’s largest music-streaming service will stand by while criminals flagrantly violate the law," the website says.
December 30, 2019:
    Spreaker Prime: Florida Men is the official podcast of the Florida Man. Each week the hosts share stories from the shady side of the Sunshine State, starring America's most prolific criminal. Part true crime, part comedy, all weird. This show is about the kind of stuff that only happens in the state where everybody is crazy from the heat. They’re using Spreaker Prime to host for free and make more money.
October 30, 2019:
    Hunted launches on November 12th: the first in a slate of audio fiction from Wolf Entertainment and Endeavor Audio. "When four convicts escape from a maximum-security prison, Deputy Marshal Emily Barnes (Parker Posey) is called in to pursue the criminals on one of the most treacherous and violent manhunts in United States history." The trailer's in our podcast today. (Wolf Entertainment / Endeavor Audio / Megaphone)
September 30, 2019:
    Spreaker Prime: Nature vs Narcissism is a true crime/comedy podcast where host Heather and her guests discuss true crimes and the narcissists who commit them. Sometimes with alcohol in-hand, they delve into whether they think nature makes criminals commit heinous acts or if it's simply their narcissism getting the best of them. Heather’s using Spreaker Prime to host for free and make more money.
September 24, 2019:
September 20, 2019:
    Sports podcasts are almost as popular as true crime podcasts. So... what would happen if you managed to produce... both? Sports Criminals highlights professional athletes who thought they could get away with anything, including blackmail, theft, prostitution and even murder. The first few episodes focus on Oscar Pistorius. (Parcast / Megaphone)
April 30, 2019:
January 16, 2019:
    Acclaimed criminal justice podcast Justice In America returns for a second season today. Hosted by criminal justice reform experts and social media influencers, Josie Duffy Rice and Clint Smith, it explores America’s criminal justice system and its effects on American communities, particularly communities of color and low-income communities.
November 1, 2018:
October 17, 2018:
    An episode of Lantigua Williams & Co's 70 Million will be placed on TIDAL, the music subscription service. TIDAL is planning a fundraising concert for criminal justice efforts on October 23.
October 16, 2018:
August 21, 2018:
    How do jails affect your community? 70 Million, a new podcast from Lantigua Williams & Co and supported by The Safety & Justice Challenge digs deep into criminal justice reform, often one jail--and story--at a time.
May 10, 2018:
    Features and interviews: Atlanta Magazine writes a feature on The Fall Line, a true-crime podcast. The Mary Sue writes about Lauren Spohrer and Phoebe Judge, the founders of Criminal and This is Love.
January 31, 2018:
    Radiotopia's Criminal team are launching a new podcast on Valentine's Day, and it's all about love. This is Love "tells stories of sacrifice, obsession, and the ways in which we bet everything on each other". There's a trailer up now at the website.
January 4, 2018:
    The US freesheet Metro writes a piece exploring the success of true crime podcasts, focusing on Radiotopia's Criminal and Wondery's Hollywood & Crime. "I am pleasantly surprised that podcasts like this show do as well as they do," says H&C's Larry Brand, "because we are so attuned to visual images."
July 7, 2017:
    Behind the scenes of Radiotopia's Criminal podcast. "We’re mindful of efficiency because we’re asking listeners to devote their full attention to these stories."

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