The Greatest True Crime Stories Ever Told
Episodes
Introducing: Rorschach: Murder at City Hall
28 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
A shocking public shooting at New York City Hall leaves the ambitious, charismatic City Councilman James E. Davis dead, before his assailant is gunned...
Introducing: Burden of Guilt s2
14 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 1999, an 18-year-old bartender named Bobby Gumpright told a lie that sent an innocent man, Jermaine Hudson, to prison for 22 years. Burden of Guilt...
Introducing: Betrayal s5
31 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Saskia Inwood woke up one morning, knowing her life would never be the same. The night before, she learned the unimaginable – that the husband s...
Introducing: The Brothers Ortiz
13 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Brothers Ortiz is the story of two brothers–both successful, but in very different ways. Gabe Ortiz becomes a third-highest ranking officer ...
Jenny Geddes and Her Revolutionary Stool
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we look all the way back to seventeenth century Scotland, to Jenny Geddes and her revolutionary acts. It's the story of the butterfly...
The Real Scarlet Letter
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we examine the story of Sarah Cornell, a young Methodist textile worker who was the inspiration for Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawtho...
The Snakehead of Chinatown
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we look at the underground world of Sister Ping. It's a story about desperation, ambition, and the shadowy world of human smuggl...
Teresita Basa: Stretching the Boundaries of Belief
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, a woman comes back from the dead to solve her own murder, something beyond the realm of what most people consider possible. And ...
The Woman Who Went Off the Grid
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we examine the story of Rebecca Vance: one of a mother’s misdirected love, the line between self-determination and mental ...
Diane Schuler: The Wrong Way Home
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we look at the story of an ordinary suburban mom, Diane Schuler, who did something extraordinarily terrible. And how the people who w...
Harvard's Forgotten Murder/Suicide
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we look at the collegiate tragedy of Sinedu Tedesse: friendship gone wrong, the limits of human ambition, and the dark underbelly of ...
Gloria Allred: The Most Famous Female Lawyer in the World
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we look at the sprawling career and casework of Gloria Allred. She’s an icon who’s been involved in so many major le...
Family Betrayal: The Susie Newsom Lynch Story (Pt 3)
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this third of three parts, we look the troubled life of Susie Newsom Lynch. A story steeped in paranoia and deceit, it has everything you need from...
Family Betrayal: The Susie Newsom Lynch Story (Pt 2)
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this second of three parts, we look the troubled life of Susie Newsom Lynch. A story steeped in paranoia and deceit, it has everything you need fro...
Family Betrayal: The Susie Newsom Lynch Story (Pt 1)
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this first of three parts, we look the troubled life of Susie Newsom Lynch. A story steeped in paranoia and deceit, it has everything you need from...
Coco Chanel and the Aryan Laws (Pt 2)
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the second of two parts, we look at the fallout of Coco Chanel's relations with Nazis during their rule over Paris in WW2. • Follo...
Coco Chanel and the Aryan Laws (Pt 1)
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this first of two parts, we examine the lives, public and private, of Coco Chanel in the wake of the France's fall in WW2. Though all had to make d...
The Real Witches of Macbeth
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this bonus episode, we look into the mysterious lore behind Shakespeare's 'Weyward Sisters" from Macbeth. Did you know those three women, the ...
The Gold Club: Sex in the Champagne Room
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we dive into the infamous Gold Club, Atlanta's premiere strip club in the 1990s. It’s the story of some of the most beautiful a...
Criminal Cremators
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we look at the story of a Family Business, the Lamb Family Funeral Home… which wanted to be a booming business so badly t...
The Great Con-Woman of the Gilded Age (Pt 2)
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In part two of two, we dive further into the tales of Cassie Chadwick. She ended up pulling one of the most elaborate cons in American history, securi...
The Great Con-Woman of the Gilded Age (Pt 1)
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In part one of two, we take a look at the story of a woman who wanted into east coast high society… and got there. Cassie Chadwick went by many...
The Sicilian Photographer Who Shot the Mafia
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we take a look at Letitzia Batagliga, an acclaimed photojournalist from Palermo, whose stories and art helped legislators end the Cosa...
Agatha Christie: The Original Gone Girl
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we examine the lesser told story of Agatha Christie: that of her sudden disappearance. The beloved crime fiction writer, whose works a...
The Housewife Who Tried To Kill The President (Pt 2)
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is part two of a two-part series on Sarah Jane Moore, the unlikely woman who wanted to kill the president, and the bizarre life she led…wh...
The Housewife Who Tried to Kill the President (Pt 1)
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is part one of a two-part series on Sarah Jane Moore, the unlikely woman who wanted to kill the president, and the bizarre life she led…wh...
True Crime Writing's Gold Standard, Ann Rule... and Her Friend Ted Bundy
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is the story of Ann Rule, an icon who’s published more than thirty true crime novels, and redefined the genre for an entire generation of A...
The Most Nefarious Welfare Queen
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is the story of Linda Taylor, a woman who seized every opportunity to commit fraud and a whole host of other crimes… and no, that’s ...
Pablo Escobar's Hostages
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is the story of Pablo Escobar's struggle against extradition to the United States and two of the many journalists he kidnapped to leverage the Co...
Postpartum Psychosis Horror Story
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is the story of Andrea Yates and the debilitating effects of postpartum depression in the digital age. The Greatest True Crime Stories is a...
Introducing: 'The Greatest True Crime Stories Ever Told' Season 2
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Greatest True Crime Stories Ever Told S2 is an anthology of the most layered and engrossing true crime stories of female killers, cops, scientists...
Bonus Episode: True Crime as an Entertainment Genre w/ Keith Wallman
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this exclusive bonus episode, producer Emma DeMuth sits down with Keith Wallman, Editor-in-Chief of Diversion Books, to discuss the "why" behind th...
Finding My Brother's Killer
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is the story of Penny Farmer—who lost her brother at sea in the late 1970s, and never stopped looking for him. Not for 40 years… The Greate...
People Don't Sleep in Bras
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is about the murder of Steve Beard…and Steve’s wife’s lover, who shot him.The Greatest True Crime Stories is a production of Divers...
The Murder Factory (Pt 2)
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is the second episode of a two-episode mini series about the Archer House. It was supposed to be a place where older folks could find comfort, co...
The Murder Factory (Pt 1)
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is the first episode of a two-episode mini series about the Archer House. It was supposed to be a place where older folks could find comfort, com...
I Survived a Serial Killer
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is the story of Holly Dunn, the only known survivor of the brutal, bloody crimes of the so-called “railroad killer.” But Holly’s story is a...
The First American Female Serial Killer (Pt 3)
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode is the finale of our three-part miniseries on “The First American Female Serial Killer", Jane Toppan. The Greatest True Crime Sto...
The First American Female Serial Killer (Pt 2)
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We’re continuing our 3-part miniseries on “The First American Female Serial Killer.” It’s a nineteenth century American tale about how an orph...
The First American Female Serial Killer (Pt 1)
02 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is the first of a three-part miniseries about a precocious little orphan. One who was abused and ignored for so long that her acting-out behavior...
Like a Hot Knife Through Butter
26 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is the story of a murderous stripper and Vegas showgirl, Marjorie Orbin. The Greatest True Crime Stories is a production of Diversion Audio.• ...
Sex Workers' Tip Line
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is the story of the one of the first female African-American lawyers, Eunice Hunton Carter, who took down America's most powerful mobster. The G...
The Catfish Killer (Pt 2)
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
PART 2/2 An online feud escalates offline, resulting in a double murder. This is the story of the “The Facebook Murders” of Mountain City, Tenness...
The Catfish Killer (Pt 1)
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An online feud escalates offline, resulting in a double murder. This is the story of the “The Facebook Murders” of Mountain City, Tennessee.The Gr...
Introducing: The Greatest True Crime Stories Ever Told
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Greatest True Crime Stories Ever Told is an anthology podcast series of the most layered and engrossing true crime stories about female killers, c...