This post is a round-up of this week’s (07/03/21) top 10 in Apple’s True Crime UK podcast charts. Based on true crime podcasts with the most downloads and the best ratings, in this week up to 7 March 2021.
For more top new true crime podcasts, audiobooks, TV shows, documentaries and more see my posts listed below.
Best True Crime Pocasts UK 2021
Top ten crime pods from Apple’s UK charts, based on downloads and ratings. All of these top Apple podcasts are available to listen to online for free. Or via other podcast platforms including Spotify, Stitcher, Playerfm and Acast.
What’s your top pick of the true crime podcasts this week? Let us know by leaving your recommendations in the comment form below.
1. Casefile True Crime
From: Casefile Presents | Apple UK podcast rating: 4.7/5.0 from 7.8K Ratings.
Description: Fact is scarier than fiction…
Latest Episode (6 March 2021) Case 167: Jai, Tyler & Bailey Farquharson – In Australia, Father’s Day falls on the first Sunday of September and is typically a time for families to gather together and celebrate. But on Father’s Day in 2005, the small Victorian town of Winchelsea was rocked by the news that a local man named Robert Farquharson had driven his three young sons – Jai, Tyler and Bailey – into a dam… [Source: podcasts.apple.com].
*Listen to Casefile True Crime Podcast with Apple Podcasts
2. RedHanded
From: True Crime with Suruthi & Hannah | Apple UK podcast rating: 4.6/5.0 from 3.5K Ratings.
Description: RedHanded the podcast jumps head first into all manner of macabre madness.
We cover everything from big time serial killers (and those you may never have heard of), to hauntings, possessions, disturbing mysteries, bizarre whodunits and basically anything that tickles our creepy fancy. So, join us, plug in, sit back and prepare for scares.
*Listen to RedHanded UK True Crime Podcast with Apple Podcasts
3. My Favorite Murder
With Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark | From: Exactly Right | Apple UK podcast rating: 4.7/5.0 from 7.5K Ratings.
Description: Lifelong fans of true crime stories Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark tell each other their favorite tales of murder and hear hometown crime stories from friends and fans.
Latest Espisode (4 March 2021) – On this week’s episode, Karen and Georgia cover the murders at White House Farm.
*Listen to My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark Podcast with Apple Podcasts
4. Astray
From: iHeartRadio | Apple UK podcast rating: 5.0/5.0 from 6 Ratings | New True Crime Podcast released 3 March 2021.
Description: How far would you go for enlightenment?
Westerners have long been drawn to the spiritual mystique of India.
While many find what they’re looking for and return home, some vanish without a trace or even end up dead.
Astray investigates those who pay the ultimate cost in search of spiritual awakening.
*Listen to Astray Podcast with Apple Podcasts
5. They Walk Among Us – UK True Crime
From: They Walk Among Us | Apple UK podcast rating: 4.5/5.0 from 3.4K Ratings.
Description: They Walk Among Us is an award-winning weekly UK true crime podcast covering a broad range of cases from the sinister to the surreal.
Latest Episode S5 E35 (03/03/21) Days turned to weeks, weeks to months, months to years, years to decades. Roy’s murderer was free to travel around the countryside and towns across the United Kingdom, undetected.
Almost 33 years later, the law would catch up with him, but perhaps some of his crimes were left behind…
*Listen to They Walk Among Us British True Crime Podcast with Apple Podcasts
6. Power: The Maxwells
From: Somethin’ Else | Apple UK podcast rating: 3.9/5.0 from 545 Ratings.
Description: Everyone’s heard of Ghislaine Maxwell (Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged partner in crime). But there’s a shadowy figure who hangs above her who you likely don’t know: her father, media tycoon Robert Maxwell. His rise from nothing to fall…
from the deck of his super yacht under mysterious circumstances is straight out of a crime novel. His favorite daughter Ghislaine’s theory: her father was murdered.
*Listen to Power: The Maxwells UK True Crime Podcast with Apple Podcasts
7. Crime Junkie
From: audiochuck | Apple UK podcast rating: 4.8/5.0 from 5.1K Ratings.
Description: If you can never get enough true crime… Congratulations, you’ve found your people.
Latest Episode (1 March 2021) – MURDERED: The Lundys Part 2 – After Mark Lundy was convicted of viciously slaying his wife and daughter, another story started to emerge, leading many people in New Zealand to wonder… was the wrong man behind bars?
*Listen to Crime Junkie True Crime Podcast with Apple Podcasts
8. Mommy Doomsday
From: NBC News | Apple UK podcast rating: 4.4/5.0 from 49 Ratings.
Description: The disappearance of two of Lori Vallow’s children in Rexburg, Idaho in September 2019 would expose a bizarre trail of death, devotion and Doomsday beliefs that captivated the nation… A haunting podcast from Keith Morrison and Dateline NBC.
Latest Episode (4 March 2021) – What Happened to the Children: The six-month search for Lori’s two missing children has followed a trail from snowy Idaho to sunny Kauai and back again. And the question of where the children are is finally answered.
*Listen to Mommy Doomsday True Crime Podcast with Apple Podcasts
9. The Apology Line
From: Wondery (see below for more top Wondery true crime podcasts) | Apple UK podcast rating: 4.4/5.0 from 411 Ratings.
Description: If you could call a number and say you’re sorry, and no one would know… what would you apologize for? For fifteen years, you could call a number in Manhattan and do just that. This is the story of the line, and the man at the other end who became consumed by his own creation. He was known as “Mr. Apology.” As thousands of callers flooded the line, confessing to everything from shoplifting to infidelity, drug dealing to murder, Mr. Apology realized he couldn’t just listen. He had to do something, even if it meant risking everything.
From Wondery the makers of Dr. Death and The Shrink Next Door, comes a story about empathy, deception and obsession. Marissa Bridge, who knew Mr. Apology better than anyone, hosts this six episode series.
*Listen to The Apology Line True Crime Podcast with Apple Podcasts
10. Serial Killers
From: Parcast Network – A Spotify Original | Apple UK podcast rating: 4.6/5.0 from 1.7K Ratings.
Description: Every Monday and Thursday, Serial Killers takes a psychological and entertaining approach to provide a rare glimpse into the mind, methods and madness of the most notorious serial killers.
With the hopes of better understanding their psychological profile.
And the help of in-depth research, we delve deep into their lives and stories.
*Listen to Serial Killers True Crime Podcast with Apple Podcasts
More Top True Crime Podcasts from Wondery
Description: Wondery brings a world of entertainment and knowledge to listeners with character-driven, binge-worthy podcasts including Dr. Death, The Shrink Next Door, Even the Rich, American Scandal, Business Wars, Over My Dead Body, and more.
Wondery has more than 55 shows that have reached #1 on the Apple Podcasts charts. With Wondery, you’ll be immersed in a unique story-telling style that engages listeners to “feel the story”. [Source: Apple Podcasts]
Mystery thrillers and investigation podcasts that true crime fans will definitely want to check out includes:
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- Something Was Wrong
- RedHanded
- Morbid
- 48 Hours
- MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories
- Small Town Murder
- British Scandal
- American Scandal
- The Vanished
*Listen to more Top Wondery True Crime Podcasts with Apple Podcasts, UK Amazon or US Amazon
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