True crime through the courtroom lens.
Court TV Podcast follows active and high-profile criminal cases through the lens of courtroom strategy, investigative details, and legal argument. Recent episodes move between the Nancy Guthrie disappearance and the Kouri Richins murder trial, with close attention to evidence, family testimony, bodycam footage, and disputed timelines.
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Court TV Podcast treats true crime as a live legal process. It is concerned with what investigators know, what lawyers can argue, and what a jury may eventually hear. Recent episodes spend substantial time on two unfolding stories: the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie and the murder trial of Kouri Richins. The Nancy Guthrie coverage is urgent and investigative. It revisits her home, blood evidence, disabled digital systems, masked surveillance images, ransom letters, neighborhood lighting questions, DNA analysis, and the lack of a confirmed suspect or proof of life. The Kouri Richins episodes work in a different register. They track testimony, bodycam footage, alleged financial pressure, family bitterness, funeral disputes, medical examiner uncertainty, and prosecutors' claims about fentanyl and motive. The show is comfortable with legal tension. One minute it is parsing whether blood droplets suggest movement or injury; the next, it is asking who benefits when family anger becomes part of a trial narrative. That mix gives the feed its shape. It is not simply retelling crimes after the fact. It is watching cases being argued in real time, with the messiness of incomplete evidence, competing claims, and emotional testimony still visible. The pacing is brisk and television-adjacent, but the useful parts are concrete: clips from court, investigative questions, expert interpretation, and repeated attention to what remains unproven. Listeners hear the machinery of a case as it turns. The tone can be pointed, especially around credibility, motive, and performance. It remains anchored to the presumption that allegations must be tested in court. For true crime listeners who care less about atmosphere and more about legal movement, Court TV Podcast offers a steady stream of trial-focused case tracking.
Made for: For listeners who follow active criminal cases, courtroom testimony, investigative updates, and legal strategy closely. It suits true crime fans who want evidence, timelines, and trial context more than polished retrospective storytelling.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by working from live legal developments, court testimony, bodycam footage, surveillance questions, and expert commentary as cases unfold. Its energy comes from real-time uncertainty rather than hindsight.
Every week listen to the newest true crime podcasts on the Court TV Podcast. Court TV will dive into the real-life deceptions, betrayals, and murders that lead to justice in the courtroom. If you love geeking-out on trials and crime, you’ve landed on the perfect spot.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Close questioning and careful evidence review turn courtroom developments, forensic details and uncertain leads into clear, accountable true-crime analysis.
Court TV Podcast turns active cases into guided examinations of what the available evidence can and cannot establish. Episodes from Closing Arguments and Vinnie Politan Investigates move between courtroom testimony, bodycam footage, surveillance images and autopsy findings, with…
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A family-feud trial account that stays sharpest when the witnesses take the stand.
This account treats Eric Richins' death as a courtroom story first and a true crime story second, moving through the prosecutors' allegations about his final hours, the fentanyl overdose they say killed him, and the family testimony that gives the case its force.
A careful disappearance review that stays close to the evidence.
This Court TV episode treats Nancy Guthrie's disappearance as a straight evidence case, starting with the night she came back from dinner and sticking close to the timeline investigators can still defend.
A bodycam-led look at the Richens trial that keeps the focus on evidence and reaction.
Court TV's episode stays close to the Utah trial involving Corey Richens and the March 2022 death of Eric Richens, using bodycam footage and courtroom commentary to rebuild the case.
A porch video, a dark street, and a case still waiting on proof of life.
Court TV keeps this hour trained on Nancy Guthrie's case, with the porch image of a masked figure carrying a backpack and what appeared to be a gun at the center of the story.
A fentanyl death, family friction, and courtroom testimony drive the trial-day coverage.
Court TV's day-one coverage of Cori Richens' murder trial lays out the central facts cleanly: a Utah mother of three called 911 from near Park City, Eric Richens was found unresponsive, and the autopsy found five times the lethal amount of fentanyl in his system.
Missing-person cases kept in the light.
True crime with blunt, conversational shock.
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Vinnie Politan investigates the abduction of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie from her home in the Catalina foothills, with evidence of blood, disabled security systems, and ransom letters.
Julie Grant frames Nancy Guthrie’s 26-day disappearance around questions about Pima County investigators’ handling of the search.
Court TV Podcast's Closing Arguments follows the Corey Richens murder trial in Utah after Eric Richens died from fentanyl poisoning at five times the lethal limit.
Court TV Podcast host Vinnie Politan examines the Nancy Guthrie abduction case and asks why investigators initially declined Savannah Guthrie’s proposed $1 million reward.
Julie Grant's Opening Statements covers Corey Richins's Utah murder trial and the search for 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie.
Court TV’s “Closing Arguments Podcast” follows the Utah murder trial of Corey Richens after prosecutors say Eric Richens died in March 2022 from fentanyl toxicity at a Utah home.
Benny Palantan and the Court TV think tank focused on Corey Richins’s 911 call, Eric Richins’s fentanyl death, and the family’s Utah home near Park City.
Vinnie Politan and Bill Stanton argue that the masked figure may have “touch access” and multiple people involved.
Court TV host Vinnie Politan examines the allegations against Kouri Richins, who is charged in the 2022 fentanyl death of her husband Eric.
The episode discusses the alleged ransom note received by Scripps News Tucson regarding the disappearance of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, mother of Today Show host Savannah Guthrie.
This episode covers the abduction of Savannah Guthrie's mother, a overturned conviction for a UCLA gynecologist, and the delayed charges against Kiefer Sutherland.
This episode of Opening Statements covers the mysterious disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, including ransom letters, evidence from her home, and insights from a former co-anchor.
Vinnie Politan investigates the autopsy results of Spencer and Monique Tepe in a true crime podcast.
Vinnie Politan investigates the Brendan Banfield murder trial, where a former IRS agent is accused of plotting to kill his wife to be with the family's au pair.