Best Podimo True Crime Podcasts (2024)

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Jigsaw - Dave The Busker 14:22

1h ago14:22

14:22

In this episode of Jigsaw - we explore the puzzling case of Dave The Busker - a man found buried in a residential garden in Galway. It's a case with multiple clues, and various pieces of evidence which investigators hope could lead to his identification. And, unusually for this series, the man already has part of his name... 'Dave'. Can you help co…

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Jigsaw - The St Helier Woman 13:27

7d ago13:27

13:27

In this episode of Jigsaw - we shine the light on The St Helier Woman - discovered outside a hospital in London, seriously ill, but with nothing to identify her. Who brought her to the hospital? How did she get here? And what had made her sick? This is a story with multiple clues... investigators have been able to identify where she came from, a li…

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Jigsaw - The Balmore Man 16:21

14d ago16:21

16:21

Welcome to Jigsaw - the brand new series from the makers of The Missing. Brought to you with Locate International. Jigsaw invites you to help pull together the pieces on an on-going case. There are more than 1,000 unidentified bodies in the UK. All of them will be mothers or fathers, daughters or sons. Their lives cut short - but without an ending.…

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Steven Durand 36:51

24d ago36:51

36:51

The first twenty-four hours of a missing person case are the most crucial. Its of vital importance that the authorities are working with the most accurate and up to date information in order to best direct their search efforts. Steven Durand was 31 when he went missing in Salford, in the North West of England. He was a mixed race man who walked wit…

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Charlene Downes 51:35

1M ago51:35

51:35

The disappearance of 14 year old schoolgirl Charlene Downes is one of the most notorious missing person cases in UK history. When Charlene vanished from Blackpool in the North West of England in November 2003, it resulted in a media frenzy, one monetized by tabloids cashing in on rumours and exploited for political purposes by the far-right. In the…

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Sarm Heslop 42:07

1M ago42:07

42:07

Sarm Heslop was never afraid to choose the road less travelled. The 41 year old from Southampton, couldn’t bear the thought of spending forty hours a week in an anonymous office, chained to a computer. Which is why, in the spring of 2021, she found herself working on a catamaran on St John in the US Virgin Islands. Sarm was working as the boat’s ch…

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Marshal Iwaasa 35:07

1M ago35:07

35:07

All of us have things that we associate with the people that we love: a smell of perfume they wear; a taste of something they might cook; a personal possession which they once gave us, or which once belonged to them. When it comes to her brother, Marshal, what pops into Paige Fogen’s head is his truck. Marshall drove a dark blue, 2009, GMC SIERRA p…

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Patricia Duncan 30:33

2M ago30:33

30:33

In many missing person’s cases, there’s a potential suspect, a clear motive, or a reason why the missing person might have wanted to vanish….But sometimes cases come along with none of that. Cases which feel like such a mystery, it’s hard to know what to think or where to start. Cases like that of 51 year old mother and grandmother, Patricia Duncan…

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Nancy Moyer 33:44

2M ago33:44

33:44

In season seven of The Missing, we’re examining, for the first time, missing person cases outside of the UK and Ireland. Today’s episode takes us to the United States, and the city of Tenino, Washington. That’s where Nancy Moyer, a 36 year old mother of two, who worked at the department of ecology, lived. When her daughter Sam thinks of her, she im…

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Cian Langelaan 42:02

2M ago42:02

42:02

The moment when a child enters adulthood is a tricky time for every parent. Do you get involved when they make mistakes, or in a bid for independence, do you let them figure it out themselves? For Anthea Langelaan, this question was one she grappled with endlessly. Every time she reached out a helping hand to her son, Cian, who lived in a small vil…

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Svetlozar Yotov 37:45

2M ago37:45

37:45

Living in a big city can make you feel small. It’s easy to feel isolated - despite being surrounded by millions of people - to lose sense of community and, perhaps, your self. Community was very important to Svetlozar Yotov, who lived in Angel, in central London. To the 30 year old aspiring culinary entrepreneur, his personal relationships were the…

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SEASON 7 2:40

3M ago2:40

2:40

THE MISSING IS BACK. We're thrilled to announce the new series of The Missing is complete, and the first episode will be available on Wednesday February 14th. We have eight more episodes - eight more unsolved long-term missing cases which need your help. And - for the first time - we're adding something different. We've integrated the podcast with …

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From the makers of The Missing - Smoking Gun 29:46

3M ago29:46

29:46

We're just a week away from the brand new series of The Missing. While we wait - why not check out another show, from the same team. Smoking Gun tells the story of the extraordinary ways in which forensic science has solved crimes. It's hosted by Tracy Alexander - Britain's best known forensic scientist - and the first episode is out now. If you en…

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Daniel Hives 28:10

5M ago28:10

28:10

Imagine you’re working at a fairground. All around you, ferris wheels are rotating, bumper cars are colliding at top speed and the air is full of the sound of raucous laughter and the smell of deep fried food. What a place to be when whilst casually scrolling through your phone you spot a message from someone. Someone who knows your brother. Someon…

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Isabella Skelton 33:40

5M ago33:40

33:40

Isabella Skelton was many things to many people but first and foremost, to her daughter Lynda, she was a Mum. The void she left in the lives of those who loved her has remained, ever since the day she vanished back in 1969, when she left her home on Lidiard Street in Crumpsall, Manchester and was never seen again. Strangely, Isabella wasn’t reporte…

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Trevor Farthing 31:39

5M ago31:39

31:39

It's hard to ever truly know what's going on in someone’s head. Most of us are fighting private battles, the details of which we don’t disclose to even the dearest people to us. Trevor Farthing, who lived in St Helen’s, Merseyside, was no stranger to mental anguish. Over the years, his long term partner Marie saw in front of her very eyes how the j…

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Sammy Townsley 40:34

5M ago40:34

40:34

Whenever someone goes missing, we inevitably put our last interaction with them under a microscope. For Ann Margaret Allan, her final conversation with her brother Sammy Townsley is one that will be forever seared into her memory. Growing up in a traveller family, he saw his fair share of discrimination from an early age and sadly, as he made his w…

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Imelda Keenan 34:51

6M ago34:51

34:51

Imelda Keenan kept a diary, where she wrote down her most personal feelings and aspirations. In 1994, she was 22 years old and living in Waterford City in the Southeast of Ireland. There she lived in a second story bedsit just a stone’s throw away from the river Suir. She was a student, she had a boyfriend and a family that loved her. But on Januar…

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Introducing: Where's Home Really? 38:09

6M ago38:09

38:09

We hope you enjoyed Who Robs A Banksy? If you're reading this, chances are you did. The team at Podimo, who brought you Who Robs A Banksy, have another excellent show to tell you about. Where's Home Really? sets out to discover what home means to famous faces from the worlds of TV, music, comedy, food and beyond. In this episode, Jimi Famurewa meet…

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Neil Skinner 46:38

6M ago46:38

46:38

You’re in your home office. It's the middle of a busy work day and the house phone rings. You pick up, slightly irritated at the interruption, only to be greeted by the police and asked if you are your father’s next of kin. We all know that nothing good comes after that question. Kate Armitage, whose father, Neil Skinner went missing in the Scottis…

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Jill Brown 36:44

6M ago36:44

36:44

Older sisters, for those of us that have them, leave an indelible mark on the lives of their younger siblings. Whether it's the music they played, the jokes they told, or the secrets they shared, being around them felt like a sneak preview of adulthood. Jill Brown, who was nineteen years old when she vanished without trace from the seaside town of …

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Aamina Khan 46:39

6M ago46:39

46:39

The sixth series of The Missing begin with the heartbreaking story of Aamina Khan. We urge you to listen to her father, Safraz. Imagine you’re a parent, sharing custody of your young child with an ex partner. You go to collect them one day and no-one answers the door. Perhaps wires have been crossed and dates and pickup times have been miscommunica…

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Lisa Pour 30:13

9M ago30:13

30:13

When it comes to long term missing person's cases, you never quite know when you're going to catch a break. Most lay dormant for years at a time, with nothing in the way of new clues or leads, leaving relatives and authorities alike feeling like they've exhausted every avenue of inquiry... Such was the case for Lauren Saffery, whose mother Lisa Pou…

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25: The Inheritance 20:01

9M ago20:01

20:01

In November 1996, residents of the Copenhagen neighbourhood Vesterbro are woken up by screaming sirens. It’s not unusual around here, but this time it’s not because of a conflict between drug dealers. The police have received multiple calls from the same apartment building. Several people have reported hearing arguing, shouting and a loud, dull thu…

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Sandra Collins 34:42

9M ago34:42

34:42

It's a sad fact of life that in the major cities of the world, missing person cases are a dime a dozen. In places like London, New York and Tokyo, tens of thousands of people vanish every year, to the point where they’re barely even newsworthy. But in a quiet seaside village like Killala, on the west coast of Ireland, the disappearance of just one …

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24: My Father Will Be To Blame 24:32

9M ago24:32

24:32

To those who knew her, news of the death of 14-year-old Sonay doesn’t come as a surprise. Both her teachers and child services tried their best to protect the girl but were ultimately unsuccessful. Sonay came to Denmark from Iraq as a nine-year-old and quickly assimilated into the new culture – much too fast, according to her father. New episode ev…

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James Miller 37:23

9M ago37:23

37:23

On the 23rd of March 2020, due to the growing threat posed by the coronavirus, the United Kingdom locked down. For most of us, it marked the start of many months spent trapped in our homes, where the lack of freedom and face to face contact with others, had a profound effect on our collective mental health. One such person was James Miller, a thirt…

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23: The DNA Breakthrough 20:41

9M ago20:41

20:41

On a warm evening in spring 1998, ten-year-old Susan is keen to get out of the house. During dinner, she’s had yet another argument with her dad. Since the divorce, father and daughter are often at loggerheads. Now she’s begging him to be allowed out in this lovely weather. He wants her back at nine at the latest, but Susan will never return home a…

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Kevin Hicks 34:08

9M ago34:08

34:08

500 yards is a relatively short distance. Its about the length of four and a half football pitches, a journey most of us could make in six minutes or less. It also happens to be the distance between Sperrings community shop on Lower Addiscombe Road in Croydon and the home of the Hicks family. On a cold spring night in 1986, sixteen year old Kevin H…

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22: Making a Killing 22:20

9M ago22:20

22:20

On September 27, 1965, Palle Mogens Fogde Sørensen becomes one of Denmark’s most notorious men. He goes down in history as “The Police Killer”. But who is Palle? And what drove him to pull the trigger that night and take the lives of four police officers? New episode every Tuesday. From Podimo, Murder in the North has been the #1 true crime podcast…

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Simon Hodgson-Greaves 40:53

10M ago40:53

40:53

Rachel Pickthall has been birdwatching for as long as she can remember. It's a passion she shared with her older brother Simon and as children, the pair spent many an evening together camped out in their back garden, bird guide in one hand and binoculars in the other. In late December 2013, Simon, then aged 48, travelled to Bempton Cliffs on the Yo…

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21: The Woman Who Started The Fire 21:23

10M ago21:23

21:23

In August 1995, the fire brigade on the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea are called out to a house fire. When they arrive on the scene, they find a seven-year-old boy at the back of the house. He’s badly burnt. When asked if there’s anyone inside, he replies: my mother, my little brother and the woman who started the fire. New episode ev…

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Sandra Gant 37:41

10M ago37:41

37:41

Sandra Gant of Clacton-on-Sea in Essex has three daughters, Carrie, Michaela and Lauren. Their relationship with their mother has always been fraught, complicated as it was by her struggles with alcoholism. Sandra lost a lot of battles with her demons over the years but as we all know, addiction is a war…one Sandra was very much still fighting when…

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20: Madly In Love 19:50

10M ago19:50

19:50

Being in love is a great feeling, especially when it’s mutual. In 2005, 24-year-old Freddy moves from India to Sweden to study molecular biology. In Gothenburg, he meets 20-year-old Jelena and he falls madly in love. With catastrophic consequences… New episode every Tuesday. From Podimo, Murder in the North has been the #1 true crime podcast across…

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Jean Tighe 32:37

10M ago32:37

32:37

Consider what the average person goes through when they’re trying to locate a missing loved one. For starters there’s the ongoing dialogue with the authorities, where you’re doing your utmost to provide the investigation with the information it needs to progress. Then you have the media, as well as poster and online campaigns to manage, in an effor…

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19: The Hunt for The Black Widow 24:01

10M ago24:01

24:01

The blurry colour photograph on the front page of a Danish tabloid newspaper shows an inconspicuous middle-aged woman. The media have dubbed her "The Black Widow". The day this picture is taken, in September 2003, she’s handed the toughest sentence available under Danish law: life in prison. New episode every Tuesday. From Podimo, Murder in the Nor…

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James Nutley 33:28

10M ago33:28

33:28

It doesn’t matter how old your children get, whenever they go on a trip you’re always dreading that phone call…The one that often comes in the early hours of the morning…The one with the solemn voice at the end of the line. The Nutley family of the Welsh village of Caerwent, received one such call in October 2004. James, who at 25 was the eldest so…

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18: Leather Gloves 25:16

10M ago25:16

25:16

Jukka, a child of divorced parents, grows up with his two stepsisters in Oulo, a city in northern Finland. During puberty he starts drinking alcohol, using drugs and stealing. He spends his time watching horror films and playing video games. But how does he then become one of the most notorious serial killers in Finland's history? New episode every…

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Carmel Fenech 34:55

11M ago34:55

34:55

When Carmel Fenech went missing in London in the summer of 1998, her mother Deirdre, of Broadfield, Crawley, didn’t panic. She was well practised at bringing her daughter home.This wasn't the first, second or even tenth time her child had gone AWOL. Carmel had a well documented drug problem, one that had pulled her into the orbit of people and plac…

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17: The Short-Tempered Serial Killer 26:08

11M ago26:08

26:08

In 1991 a brother and sister are stabbed to death in their own home in the small Norwegian town of Tistedalen. This double murder proves to be tricky to solve and the case drags on for years. Eventually, Tistedalen will become known for a spate of extremely violent murders and robberies. New episode every Tuesday. From Podimo, Murder in the North h…

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Steven Clark 42:33

11M ago42:33

42:33

What would you do if the police knocked on your door one day and told you they had just arrested your parents for your brother’s murder? That was the nightmare scenario facing Victoria Orr, whose beloved mother and father were taken into custody in September 2020, suspected of killing their own son. Steven Clark had vanished during a walk in the se…

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16: Tell Her Parents 25:00

11M ago25:00

25:00

A missing child causes feelings of helplessness and despair, especially among those closest to the boy or girl - parents, family and friends. But it can also have a profound impact on police officers, detectives, journalists and judges. In 1989, ten-year-old Helén disappears. Her family and the investigators working on the case have to endure a 15-…

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S5: Season 5 is COMING - on June 12th 3:59

11M ago3:59

3:59

The Missing is BACK - Launching on June 12th - a brand new series with TEN more stories of long-term missing people. For more information on this case, and every episode from every series visit https://themissingpodcast.org And to visit details of the most recent appeals - like you one you may have heard in this episode, please visit : https://miss…

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15: The Secret of Lake Bodom 22:32

11M ago22:32

22:32

On a summer’s evening 60 years ago, four teenagers camp out in a tent by Lake Bodom in Finland. In the early hours, they’re brutally attacked and only one of them emerges alive. His name is Nils Gustafsson and the events that night will haunt him for the rest of his life. New episode every Tuesday. From Podimo, Murder in the North has been the #1 t…

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10: Love is Blind 33:15

11M ago33:15

33:15

Love can make us do extreme things. As the saying goes, “Love is blind”, and a person who is in love, including unrequited love, might find it difficult to judge the consequences of their actions correctly. Even when it comes to the worst crime imaginable… murder. Cold Blood: Nordic True Crime is a series based on a hit Danish podcast, exploring st…

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6: Finale 27:00

11M ago27:00

27:00

So where have we ended up? Has the team managed to get to Banksy? And above all, is Andy ever going to get the closure he’s after? From Podimo & Message Heard, this is Who Robs A Banksy? CREDITS: Presented by Jake Warren Produced and written by Bea Duncan Music composed by Tom Biddle Production support from Harry Stott and Blu Posner Sound engineer…

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10: Death in the Chat Room (William Melchert) 37:50

11M ago37:50

37:50

On a cold Sunday in March 2008, an 18-year-old woman jumps off a bridge in Canada's capital, Ottawa. She sinks into the icy water and welcomes death to end the darkness that has consumed her mind. Three years before, a 32-year-old man hanged himself in his apartment in the city of Coventry in central England. He could see no other way out. The two …

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14: Alias Natural Selector 89 19:11

11M ago19:11

19:11

Since the 1990s, violent computer games and aggressive music have been seen as the reasons for violence among young people. Meanwhile, experts urge the media not to describe suicides in too much detail to avoid putting ideas into people’s heads. But can murder really be contagious? New episode every Tuesday. From Podimo, Murder in the North has bee…

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9: The Murder in the Woods (Part 2) 27:00

11M ago27:00

27:00

Part 2 in our 2-part exploration of the grisly crime that shook a community. In the previous episode we heard how on a summer evening in 1981, in a small Danish village in the northern part of Jutland, a 16-year-old girl went missing. Four days later, she was found in a nearby forest, hanged by a rope tied to a tree. Her body was partially covered …

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5: Cash, Money, Art 32:20

12M ago32:20

32:20

The Drinker mysteriously vanishes from Andy’s back garden…and theories are flying about who might be behind it. But things get really interesting when it appears 10 years later on sale at Sotheby’s. Is Banksy really the anti establishment figure we all want to think he is? And the team has one final shot at getting in touch with Banksy. From Podimo…

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