True crime with cocktails and chaos.
Martinis & Murder is a true crime comedy show built around murder cases, drinks, and a panel that keeps interrupting itself. Case details sit beside birthday bits, TV rants, community jokes, and the occasional farewell toast.
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Martinis & Murder is a true crime comedy show where the case rarely arrives alone. It comes with drinks, side chatter, singing jokes, callbacks, and the feeling of friends trying to keep a serious story moving while everything around it keeps becoming funny. The show covers grim material, including murders, disappearances, affairs, addiction, financial stress, family strain, and police theories. It also spends real time on the ordinary life around the microphone. A birthday can become a bit. A quarantine check-in can become a long riff. A discussion of Lady Gaga, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Dionne Warwick, or a Netflix true-crime documentary can loop back into why people like mysteries in the first place. That looseness is the point. The panel does not present crime from a cold distance; it reacts, interrupts, questions choices, and sometimes pauses to make clear when a victim or family deserves care. Darren and John drive much of the exchange, with Matt threaded through the show as a recurring presence and drink-minded foil. The dynamic is quick, affectionate, and often self-mocking. Someone says something sharp. Someone else pushes back. A drink prompt appears. Then the case keeps going. The show is especially strong when it connects crime stories to messy relationships: double lives, cheating, dependence, loyalty, resentment, and the private compromises people make before a situation turns catastrophic. Its Another Shot episodes give the audience a looser version of the same chemistry, with more room for pop culture, dating advice, pandemic life, documentaries, and personal updates. The farewell and announcement episodes also reveal how much the show relied on its listener community. The Facebook group, shared jokes, and recurring “family” language make the audience part of the texture rather than a distant crowd. Martinis & Murder works best for true crime listeners who do not need every minute polished into documentary seriousness. It is warm, rowdy, case-focused when it counts, and very aware that a murder story can sit next to a ridiculous tangent without becoming careless.
Made for: For true crime fans who like case storytelling with fast banter, pop-culture tangents, and a strong sense of listener community. Best for people comfortable with dark subject matter presented through an irreverent but warm panel dynamic.
What sets it apart: The show’s signature is its cocktail-table rhythm: crime details, teasing, drink cues, personal updates, and fan callbacks all moving in the same conversation. It feels less like a sealed documentary and more like a lively recurring hang that still lands the important case beats.
The true crime podcast that you've been looking for! Hosts Daryn Carp and John Thrasher chat about creepy crimes and mysterious murders while Matt the Bartender mixes up martinis! From new episodes of cases you've never heard before, to cases you thought you knew really well, to interviews with the biggest and most recognizable names in true crime, Martinis & Murder has a little of everything for the ultimate true crime fan. Subscribe now!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Case narration becomes a candid group conversation, with personal dynamics examined closely and the hosts' humor keeping difficult material approachable.
Martinis & Murder pairs case narration with the loose chemistry of Daryn Carp and John Thrasher, while Matt the Bartender adds the show's drinks-centered frame.
Birthday ribbing before a murder case: your true crime comes with room for a laugh.
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A loose, affectionate farewell built around a countdown, a project reveal, and gratitude for the show's listener community.
Martinis & Murder ends on a final countdown, a project announcement, and a sincere thank-you to the listeners who kept it going. The closer also circles back to the running jokes, the singing, the Facebook group, and the easy ribbing that defined the show for Darren, John, Matt,…
A candid farewell that treats the end as a business decision and lets the banter stay loose.
Martinis & Murder closes on a plainspoken note: after four years, the show is ending because the contracts have run out and the hosts have decided not to renew with Oxygen.
A missing-man case where family testimony carries the real weight.
Martinis & Murder keeps its focus on Tim's disappearance on November 13, 2013, and the strongest material comes from the family accounts that circle the loss.
A loose quarantine-era chat built around birthdays, shipping delays, and a big announcement.
Martinis & Murder keeps Another Shot loose and conversational, opening with John singing before he and Darren trade jokes about Simon Cowell, inauguration day, and how quickly four years have passed since the podcast began.
A snowbound pandemic catch-up finds its best spark in Dionne Warwick's celebrity-name tweets and the William Eyelash joke.
William Eyelash turns a pandemic catch-up into an easygoing study of conversational drift, moving from a song-copywriting idea into snowstorm talk without much concern for neat lanes.
A banter-heavy episode that moves from Star Wars chatter to city life and a surprisingly powerful speaker.
Martinis & Murder's Another Shot #132, Holidays With Aliens, works best when the hosts lean into their chemistry. It opens with a Star Wars riff, moves into The Mandalorian, and then slips into New York talk about a 24/7 store on 5th Ave and how daily life can feel different…
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Hosts Daryn Carp and John Thrasher catch up in their 'Another Shot' segment, discussing a Manhattan snowstorm, Tom Cruise's COVID-19 set rant, and Dionne Warwick's viral tweets about Billie Eilish.
Hosts Daryn Carp and John Thrasher engage in humorous banter about a microphone mishap while setting up for a true crime discussion.
Hosts Daryn and John discuss the uncertainty of the 2020 presidential election while mixing martinis, blending true crime banter with current events.
Hosts Daryn Carp and John Thrasher interview former LA Times reporter Jeff Boucher about true crime, with a lighthearted martini-themed banter.
Hosts Daryn Carp and John Thrasher discuss holiday gift ideas, including Dr.
Martinis & Murder closes with a farewell episode after four years, 200-plus episodes, and a new project that the hosts say is already live on social pages and in the Facebook group.
Martinis & Murder opens with a "big announcement" that the show is ending after four years because the hosts "chose not to renew with oxygen." The hosts also say a final goodbye episode will air on Sunday, February 7th, while their next project will be teased on Twitter and Instagram.
Martinis & Murder's 'Another Shot #139 - The Announcement' centers on JoJo Siwa's TikTok statement and a teased Sunday reveal about the show's future.
Martinis & Murder covers Tim's disappearance in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, after Eve Nance called 911 on November 5, 2013.
Martinis & Murder's "Another Shot #138 - Dating Advice" opens with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's inauguration, then detours into Betty White turning 99 and a belated apology for missing it last week.
Hosts Daryn Carp and John Thrasher discuss true crime cases while Matt the Bartender mixes martinis, blending crime analysis with casual banter.