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True Crime News: your weekly dose of real-time updates on the most gripping true crime stories, current cases, investigations, scams, and schemes. Host Ana Garcia is joined by crime experts, police officers, defense attorneys, and other leading authorities in their fields as they cover murders, scams, investigations, and unsolved crimes from across the country. True Crime News has the largest and most active true crime digital community in the world, with 4.8 million subscribers on YouTube and more than 3 million fans on Facebook. Join us each week as we take you inside the biggest, most shocking, and most bizarre true crime...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Anna Garcia turns individual cases into clear discussions of evidence, criminal responsibility, investigative reasoning, and the questions a court may have to resolve.
Anna Garcia keeps True Crime News: The Podcast moving by turning individual cases into pointed conversations about what investigators can prove and what remains inference.
A door leaves the crime scene, and suddenly you need to know which door.
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A case about debt, divorce, and a prosecutor's claim that Eric was worth more dead than alive.
The episode treats the case as a tangle of motive, money, and grief. It stays close to the parts that can be backed up: the divorce talk, the debt, the house flipping angle, and the prosecutor's view that Eric was worth more dead than alive.
A focused legal sidebar on excluded evidence, a poisoning conviction, and a disputed assisted-death case.
A judge's choice to keep out texts about wanting to kill a baby gives this episode its clearest legal tension: what evidence of intent belongs in front of a jury?
A fatal prank case that weighs justice, discretion, and compassion against a family tragedy.
A prank gone fatally wrong becomes a hard look at what justice should mean after a beloved mentor and teacher is killed while running out to greet teens.
A measured sidebar on disputed testimony, trial strategy, and the courtroom rules that shape what jurors hear.
A former police officer charged with killing his pregnant mistress gives the episode a stark opening before Joshua Ritter and Nima Rahmani shift to the courtroom mechanics around Corey Richens.
A grim, procedural true crime case that stays grounded in the evidence.
True Crime News takes a grim case and keeps its focus where it belongs: on the police work. The episode moves through the shaky 911 call, the parts of the account that do not add up, and the forensic questions that keep pulling investigators back in, from the removed door to the…
A clear, sober look at insanity findings, criminal negligence, and circumstantial evidence across several cases.
The Sidebar looks at what can come after a not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity finding when jail is not the outcome. The Ohio case involving an Amish woman near Atwood Lake, who drowned her four-year-old son and tried to kill her three older children, gives the episode its clearest…
A grim true crime case where medical records and legal claims matter more than shock.
True Crime News treats a heartbreaking family case as a legal and medical tangle, not a shock piece. A mother is accused of strangling her three children and then trying to leap to her death, while her husband says postpartum illness and heavy medication helped set everything in…
A brutal targeted killing told with restraint, legal context, and a steady eye on what can be proved.
A Valentine's Day murder in North Carolina gives this episode its hardest edge: a young soldier at Fort Bragg and his girlfriend are shot in bed, and police say the woman's ex-boyfriend drove seven hours from Ohio for the early morning ambush.
Measured true crime with uneasy questions.
The show opens on the shooting of a mother.
Joshua Ritter covers three court fights tied to death-penalty and murder cases, starting with the Pike County massacre in Ohio, where Billy Wagner is again facing capital prosecution after an appeals court ruling.
True Crime News: The Podcast centers on the 2023 killing of 30-year-old Duke graduate student Angela Reesey in Durham, North Carolina, and the plea deal for 32-year-old Stefan DeBose.
Ariel Koenig says her husband, anesthesiologist Garrick Koenig, tried to kill her on a cliff in Oahu, Hawaii, after pressuring her toward the edge on her birthday trip.
True Crime News: The Podcast's Sidebar opens with Corey Richens' Utah trial, where prosecutors say the wife was $4.5 million in debt, had an affair with Robert Josh Grossman, and poisoned Eric Richens for money.
Anna Garcia and her guests take on a disturbing family killing.
A criminal defense lawyer discusses a teen charged with murder on a cruise ship, a Michigan football coach avoiding jail, and a man arrested for homicide in his wife's disappearance.
A true crime podcast episode covering the kidnapping and murder of a seven-year-old girl, the suspect's guilty plea, and the upcoming death penalty phase, with analysis from a criminal defense attorney.
This episode covers the sexual abuse charges against Joseph Duggar and the broader Duggar family crime history, with expert analysis from a criminal justice professor.
A promo for The Powers That Be podcast, which analyzes the power dynamics in politics, media, and finance.
This episode covers the conviction of Corey Richens for murdering her husband Eric with fentanyl, exploring how she wrote a children's book about grief to deceive others.
Shocking text admissions can be inadmissible if only relevant for character, not intent.
True Crime News: The Podcast opens with a warning about graphic stories and strong language.
True Crime News host Anna Garcia and law enforcement expert Rich McHale dissect the case of Caleb Flynn, a 39-year-old music pastor and former American Idol contestant from Tip City, Ohio, charged with murdering his wife Ashley while their two young daughters slept nearby.
Host Joshua Ritter and legal analyst Matt Timpanik discuss three high-profile cases: an Amish woman found not guilty by reason of insanity for drowning her son, a Utah wife accused of poisoning her husband for insurance money, and a father convicted for his son's school shooting due to criminal negligence.
A mother of three is accused of a horrific killing.
A young soldier at Fort Bragg and his girlfriend are shot to death in bed on Valentine's Day.
Nancy Guthrie abduction sparks nationwide search
Host Ana Garcia and retired homicide detective Don Tabak discuss the case of Robert Richens, who murdered his girlfriend Rachel Vaughn in Oxfordshire, England.
Joshua Ritter and Terry Austin analyze three major cases: a conflict-of-interest motion in the Charlie Kirk murder trial, the kidnapping of Savannah Guthrie's mother in Tucson with ransom demands, and the discovery of missing teen Haley Busby who may prompt new missing persons legislation.
True Crime News: The Podcast centers on two alleged confessions with major legal questions: Samuel Hall Shelter, an 18-year-old Amish man charged in the death of Rosanna Kinzinger, and Wellington Dickens III, accused of killing four children and leaving their bodies in a Honda Civic trunk.
The episode focuses on allegations that Brandon and Juliana planned around Christine’s death and tried to stage the moment so Brandon could come back as the rescuer.
Host Joshua Ritter interviews criminal defense attorney Scott Reich about three cases: a double homicide in Columbus with no arrests despite surveillance, a mother charged with murder where prosecutors avoid the death penalty, and a Patriots receiver accused of assault with late reporting issues.
Anna Garcia presents a special edition of True Crime News focused on the 1981 murders of Christopher Ziemba, age 4, and Cheryl Ziemba, age 8, in Old Forge, Pennsylvania.
True Crime News: The Podcast’s Sidebar revisits four major 2025 cases, starting with Sean Diddy Combs and ending with James Craig in Colorado.
A father missing for decades is finally found beneath the family home.
True Crime News: The Podcast centers on Rob Reiner and Michelle Singer Reiner’s fatal stabbings in Brentwood, with their son Nick Reiner facing two first-degree murder charges and special-circumstance allegations.
The hosts discuss a case involving a mother and a special-needs woman, tied to a strange plan built around suspected online predator messaging.
Host Joshua Ritter and legal analyst Nima Ramani discuss three high-profile cases: the suppression hearing for suspected CEO assassin Luigi Mangione, the trial of Brian Walsh for allegedly dismembering his wife, and Antonio Brown's self-defense claim in an attempted murder case.
This episode covers the conviction of 14 members of a religious cult in Australia for the manslaughter of 8-year-old Elizabeth Strues, who died after being denied insulin.
Host Joshua Ritter and legal analyst Marie Pereira discuss three true crime cases: a murder trial where the defense claims the wife died suddenly, an assassination case with evidence suppression issues, and a father charged with child abuse after a dangerous hike.
This episode features a sponsored segment for Colette travel tours before presumably diving into true crime news and case updates.
This episode covers updates on the Slender Man stabbings escape, a cruise ship homicide, and a singer named as a suspect in a teen's murder, with legal analyst commentary.
A forbidden workplace romance in a morgue leads to the murder of a woman's ex-husband, with the body stored in a funeral home locker.
A ghost hunter reality star survives his wife's murder-for-hire plot involving an inmate pen pal, analyzed with a retired homicide detective.
Host Ana Garcia and criminologist Nikki Ali Jackson discuss a case where a man is accused of murdering his wife during a divorce, with strong evidence including the body found in his car.
Host Ana Garcia discusses the arrest of a husband 19 years after his wife's murder, with exclusive details from her investigation.