True crime with blunt, familiar banter.
From Crime to Crime follows murders, disappearances, scandals, and suspicious timelines with a conversational back-and-forth. Grant and Erica keep the mood informal without losing sight of surveillance gaps, police choices, family advocacy, and the uneasy details that make a case linger.
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From Crime to Crime is a true-crime conversation built around cases, not theatrical narration. Grant and Erica host with an easy, teasing rhythm. They open episodes with small jokes, missed routines, country-chart guesses, and the kind of offhand comments that make the recording feel unvarnished. Then the facts take over. The show follows disappearances, murders, scandals, and contested self-defense claims through timelines that are easy to track. Jason Jolkowski’s case becomes a close look at the lost value of early witness canvassing and surveillance footage. Linda Cooney’s episode turns on staging concerns, gunshots, and the practical question of how someone was drawn inside a house. Bardstown brings family advocacy, recorded interrogation material, and the pressure around a missing woman’s husband. Anita Knutson’s case circles suspicious access, witness sketches, roommate tension, and the limits of rumor. The Paris 2024 Olympic scandals episode widens the lens without abandoning the crime-and-accountability frame. The hosts can pivot abruptly when breaking case updates appear, as with the identification of Marcia Thomas. That immediacy is part of the appeal. The show is informal, sometimes blunt, and clearly made for mature audiences. It also keeps asking useful questions. What evidence vanished because too much time passed? Who had access? What behavior looks wrong only after later facts appear? The banter rarely feels separate from the reporting; it acts as pressure relief between hard details. Closing jokes and affectionate sign-offs keep the atmosphere familiar. The result is a true-crime show for listeners who like serious cases handled through candid back-and-forth rather than scripted gravity.
Made for: For true-crime listeners who like detailed case timelines, skeptical questions, and hosts who keep the room conversational. Best for mature audiences comfortable with murder, disappearance, and investigation details.
What sets it apart: The show mixes case analysis with a distinctly informal Grant-and-Erica rapport, including side jokes, live reactions, and practical questions about evidence. It feels less like a lecture and more like two people testing each fact as it arrives.
A true crime podcast hosted by two best friends, with nothing in common, except their interest in true crime and their obsessions with The Office.
A country song guessing game before a murder case, if you like your grim stories with a detour.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A missing-person case tightens around a short route, two camera checks, and time already lost.
Jason Jolkowski's disappearance turns on a route that should have been easy to understand: a 19-year-old leaves his Omaha home, is expected at a high school, and never appears on cameras there or at the middle school along the way.
Grant and Erica trace Olympic excitement into animal-welfare concerns, a live case update, and an uneasy scandal.
From Crime to Crime returns with Olympic enthusiasm running straight into a darker question about medals, spectacle, and animal welfare. Grant and Erica start with the delayed release of a horse-abuse video, then widen the discussion into how competitive ambition can put animals…
A disputed self-defense claim gets harder to settle as Grant and Erica weigh the strange details around both shootings.
Linda Cooney's case is built around a hard question: how did a woman who shot both her husband and her son with the same gun avoid prison for either shooting?
A missing-person case gains force from family history, recorded interrogation clips, and the uncertainty around Crystal's disappearance.
Crystal's disappearance carries extra weight because of Tommy Ballard's family history. His sister vanished while pregnant in the 1970s, and her remains were later found after she had been murdered by her husband.
A North Dakota investigation circles a mistaken sketch, lingering suspicion, and questions about who had access to Anita.
From Crime to Crime follows Anita's case into a June 2007 North Dakota investigation, where a witness report turns a jogger's normal morning route into an unexpected police sketch.
Strange cases, loud banter, no polish.
Courtroom chaos, case updates, sharp reactions.
Case files with a psychological verdict.
Behavior, evidence, and accountability.
Old crimes, formally brought to judgment.
Jason Jolkowski, a 19-year-old in Omaha, Nebraska, left home on June 13, 2001 to meet a Fazoli's coworker at Benson High School and never arrived.
From Crime to Crime's PARIS 2024 OLYMPIC SCANDALS centers on two controversies tied to the Paris 2024 Games, with Grant and Erica framing the episode around what the Olympics reward and excuse.
From Crime to Crime revisits the 1992 Palm Beach, Florida shooting of James Cooney and Linda Cooney's claim that it was self-defense.
["From Crime to Crime frames Bardstown, Kentucky, around Officer Jason Ellis, who was shot dead on Exit 34 after stopping to clear tree limbs from the Bluegrass Parkway.", "The episode then moves to April 2014, when special-ed teacher Kathy Netherland and her 16-year-old daughter Samantha were found murdered, with Kathy shot several times and both necks cut.", "By July 2015, Crystal Rogers had vanished after a Fourth of July weekend date night, her car was found with her purse, keys, and phone still inside, and Brooks Houck told her family she had left.", "Erica and Grant connect the cases with dispatch calls, family reactions, and Bardstown's 13,000-person town context while the transcript stays unresolved."]
From Crime to Crime's Anita Knudson episode centers on a 2007 murder in Minot, North Dakota, after Anita was found dead in her apartment on Fourth Street.
Patti Adkins clocked out of Honda just after midnight for a planned Canada getaway, then missed her daughter's scheduled pickup on July 8, 2001.
The hosts describe ADX Florence in Colorado as the federal system’s only maximum security prison and explain its “Alcatraz of the Rockies” nickname.
A recycler found a teenage girl's severed head in a backpack near Barstow's Lenwood Road on February 10, 2010.
Two friends discuss the 1989 disappearance of 16-year-old Fawn Cox from Kansas City.
Two friends banter about a choking incident and upcoming travel plans before introducing a 'what the hell's going on' episode.
Two friends discuss the Murdaugh family murder case in South Carolina, covering the family's background and the crime.
Two friends discuss the 1982 Chicago Tylenol poisonings, detailing the victims and the case.
Two friends banter, shout out reviewers, and introduce a disturbing true crime case about Jaycee Dugard.
Two friends discuss the 1990 disappearance of 14-year-old Laureen Rahn, a cold case still unsolved.
Two friends banter about a new theme song before introducing a disturbing true crime case.
Two friends banter about CrimeCon and introduce a true crime case from Illinois in 2006.