Global true crime with chaos around the edges.
Nothing Rhymes With Murder treats true crime as a global map, moving from Nigeria, Lebanon, Costa Rica, Serbia, Iran, Bolivia, Lithuania, and Christmas cases. The tone shifts from grim detail to loose, affectionate banter without letting the violence become decorative.
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Nothing Rhymes With Murder is a global true crime show with a country-by-country spine. The sampled run moves from Nigeria to Lebanon, Costa Rica, Serbia, Iran, Bolivia, Lithuania, and a Christmas-themed pairing, using place as the way into murder cases, kidnappings, hijackings, assassination, poisonings, prison stories, and unresolved violence. Its case material can be severe. The Nigeria episode includes the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping and the assassination of Dele Giwa. Lebanon brings in the hijacking of TWA Flight 847 and the murder of Zeina Kanjo. Costa Rica is represented through El Psicópata and Mata Indigentes, while Serbia includes the murder of Dada Vujasinović and the Baba Anujka poisonings. The show also reaches toward press freedom and state-linked violence through the Iran episode on the Chain Murders and The Spider Killer. The surrounding style is far less formal than the subject list suggests. Georgie and Kate appear repeatedly in the excerpts as named voices, and the openings are full of apologies, pandemic fatigue, remote recording, stress, tiny jokes, and a kind of self-aware disorder. The show does not pretend that the grim material exists in a vacuum. It lets the people telling it sound tired, scattered, affectionate, and funny. That makes the tonal shifts sharp. One stretch can dwell on captive schoolgirls preserving detail in hidden diaries; another can move to travel hotspots, charity or organization picks, listener shout-outs, merchandise, or Coin Corner. The travel element matters because the show frames countries as more than crime scenes, even while it uses local cases as the central draw. It is not sterile documentary true crime. It is also not pure comedy. The appeal is the friction between researched horror and unruly companionship. It suits a listener who wants international case selection, accepts emotional whiplash, and prefers conversation with rough edges over a sealed investigative package.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants murder cases from many countries and can tolerate blunt descriptions of violence when they are balanced by casual, irreverent conversation. It is a fit for someone who prefers personality in the margins rather than a detached documentary voice.
What sets it apart: The show’s country-by-country structure is paired with travel hotspots and charity or organization picks, giving each stop more texture than the case alone. Its informal banter and self-aware disorder make it stand apart from cleaner, colder true crime formats.
Join Kate and Georgie on a GLOBAL journey of murder. Every week a new country and true crime gems as well as fun hotspots to visit. Remember kids, life is a journey, don’t let murder stop you!
A Belgrade fortress well after the case: your true crime curiosity gets a detour.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Adamu's account shows how the girls preserved their stories under captivity.
Nothing Rhymes With Murder centers on Adamu's account of captivity and on the girls' determination to preserve what happened to them. They gathered to reconstruct events in detail, with some writing while others narrated, then hid the diaries in underwear or holes in the ground.
A tense hijacking account shaped by fear, forced ritual, and shifting ideas of safety.
This single-episode review keeps its focus on the hijacking itself, staying close to the plane as control shifts between captors and hostages.
A Costa Rican cold case weighs an awful scene against the possibility of a killer's return.
A Costa Rican cold case keeps circling the same uneasy question: did El Psicopata stop, or did the violence return years later in another form?
A loose true-crime episode with Belgrade detail, press-freedom concern, and comic rapport.
This true-crime podcast episode has a loose, unruly charm, with Georgie and Kate starting in their Supreme Leaders routine before riffing on pre-recording and the odd feeling of already sounding out of date.
Measured true crime with uneasy questions.
["Nothing Rhymes With Murder covers the April 14, 2014 Boko Haram attack on Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Nigeria, after neighboring villages saw armed convoys and tried to warn the town.", "The episode says 276 girls were taken, 57 escaped by jumping from the trucks, Amnesty International later said the Nigerian military had hours of warning, and the British Air Force reportedly found the girls before the government declined help.", "Georgie's narration follows survivors and witnesses including Grace, Hanatu Stevens, Naomi Adamu, Sarah Samuel, and Amima Ali, then returns to the diaries, the hidden school uniform, and the pressure to marry or convert.", "It also tracks the 'Bring Back Our Girls' campaign, public attention from Malala, Hillary Clinton, and Michelle Obama, and the closing charity mentions for the Neem Foundation and Women for Women International."]
Nothing Rhymes With Murder’s Lebanon episode follows the June 14, 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847 and the hostage crisis that moved through Beirut and Algeria.
Nothing Rhymes With Murder links Costa Rica's El Psicopata killings from 1986 to 1996 with the 2015 Mata Indigentes case, while Georgie and Kate record from South Korea and London.
Georgie and Kate take the show to Serbia for Dada Vujasinovic, a Duga reporter whose 1994 death stayed disputed across police, family, and forensic reviews.
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Nothing Rhymes With Murder’s 2020 look-back collects twelve strange cases and happenings, including a Florida woman arrested over McDonald’s dipping sauces.
Nothing Rhymes With Murder's Cyprus episode covers Nikos Metaxas and the murder of Danish woman Louise Jensen.
Georgie and Kate’s Nothing Rhymes With Murder episode covers John McAfee’s life in Belize and the 2012 death of neighbour Gregory Faull.
A true crime podcast exploring murder cases from different countries, blending crime analysis with travel tips.
Two hosts discuss international true crime cases and travel hotspots from different countries each week.
Two hosts discuss murder cases from different countries each week, blending true crime with travel tips.
Two hosts discuss true crime cases from around the world with a lighthearted, comedic tone.