Fake Crimes & Misdemeanors

An entrepreneur was murdered in his mountain home. Seven suspects were present, but the police were unable to solve the case. Desperate for closure, the widow reaches out to a pragmatic reporter with a simple request: interview each suspect, compare their stories, and find out who’s lying.

In 2001 two girls, on opposite sides of town, in the dead of night, stopped what they were doing and walked into the Daniel Boone National Forest. Now, a journalist who grew up with the girls is coming home to find out what happened that night in Olive Hill.

Christmas 2007, a movie star heiress crashed her car in Northern California, walked into a clearing, and vanished, leaving a torso in her trunk. 10 years later, a reporter and a private detective reopen the case. Join them as they attempt to answer once and for all: what happened to Julie Capsom?

In 1946, a crew of California convicts fights wildfires in exchange for their freedom. Thirty years later, while researching the history of American prison labor, a British journalist uncovers evidence suggesting a wide-ranging cover-up of inmate deaths.

While traveling through Europe, newly-wed influencer couple, Karlie and Tre, notice an almost identical couple is following them and posting the same content - imitating their photos, poses, filters, and tags. Their inquiry snowballs into a double homicide and an influencer-targeted cult.

In October of 2011, 4 college students disappeared in the woods while researching a documentary on children’s author Jakob Stanley. Recently, their recordings appeared online. In an effort to aid in the investigation, the families of those missing have agreed to release the recovered sound files.

When a true crime podcaster asks a friend if she will become a “missing person” so he can document finding her on the podcast, little does he know this one act of deception will set off a dangerous chain reaction and spin a story that he isn’t sure he’s ready to tell.

When Myra Abernathy’s estranged father dies in a grisly “accident,” she comes home to take up his secret obsession: the hunt for her baby sister’s cold-case killer.

The infamous Whitechapel murders, retold.

A New Weird / Folk Horror podcast that follows the paranormal investigations of Aiden Summers and Katherine Moore as they uncover the dangerous truth lurking behind the myths and legends of the British Isles.

Bodies are piling up in the strange town of Springfield, and forensic pathologist Jonathan Spacer intends to find out why. But, Jon isn’t without his own secrets…He can talk to the dead, for starters.

A man’s search for his missing brother leads him to a mysterious cult. A mind-bending mystery/thriller from Cryptic Radio.

A brash winemaker with a secret past, his missing girlfriend, and a jilted roughneck from Louisiana who pulls an investigative journalist into a mystery that quickly consumes his life and career.

Former detective, and current ghost, Calvin Westover decides to stick around for a bit before passing on, working as a P.I. (Paranormal Investigator) to solve crimes of the supernatural nature, aided by his unpaid intern, Arthur.

Crime fiction by Mark Coggins featuring private investigator August Riordan. Each season is a one chapter/one episode reading of a Riordan novel by the author.

San Francisco homicide inspector Bryan Clauser is losing his mind. How else to explain his dreams, dreams that mirror — with impossible accuracy — gruesome murders drenching the city in blood? How else to explain the feelings these dreams provoke in him? Not disgust, not horror, but excitement.

Four New York City women have a group mid-life crisis when a bagman friend involves them in a jewelry smuggling sting.

It’s 2052 and Detective Gray Cooper and her partner Joe Nebraska, investigate supernatural crime. Nothing will stop Gray from finding out the truth behind each case, even when the demons of her past threaten her future.

Welcome to FEY HOLLOW: THE FAIRY TALE MURDERS — step into a world of mystery and suspense and choose the ending of your choice.

A fictionalized true crime podcast detailing the bizarre, egregious, and completely fake exploits of the world’s most notorious, and most nonexistent, people.

An amateur podcaster disappears while searching for the legendary Forrest Fenn Treasure. A disgraced former sportscaster attempts to uncover the truth only to find that everyone has their own story to tell.

Blake Wayman was a cop until a criminal syndicate had Blake and his wife killed. But Blake didn’t stay dead. Now a wheelchair bound P.I., he can walk the streets of a purgatory on the banks of the River Styx. There, he searches for his lost love and solves crimes no one else can.

Kit Morland, true crime podcaster and wannabe heroine, is dying for some excitement. When her neighbours offer to take her on a trip to Bath, site of the famous Chawton Murders, she knows this is her chance to investigate the unsolved mystery. But Kit’s new environment is full of distractions.

London, 1889. When the residents of 221B Baker Street leave town for the weekend to solve one of their most famous cases, no one is left to clear a poor housekeeper’s name of a crime she didn’t commit. Well, no one except for their neighbors at 224B…

Two rival bus service operators have a business feud that turns personal, and then turns deadly, after one of them takes a trip to Florida, and engages in a passionate affair with a mysterious stranger. Take a walk on the wild side of Florida strange.

It's post-Prohibition Cleveland, Ohio at the height of the Great Depression. An elusive killer has claimed thirteen victims all under the watch of newly appointed Public Safety Director, Eliot Ness. True crimes, true events.

Shocked by his sire’s murder, young vampire Titus Reed returns to the city. He reopens the case and vows to hunt down the real killer while confronting his violent past, the Second Inquisition, and the politics of Port Saga.

Meet DCI Charlotte Walker - the Yorkshire Tea-drinking, Tizer-loving, Love Hearts-eating detective. She’s the detective you want on your case. This isn’t a typical police procedural, it’s a trip into the chaotic and witty crime-solving world of Charlotte Walker.

The classic radio show, Pat Novak for Hire gets an update for the 2020's. This version of Pat Novak takes the original episodes and rewrites and re-records them with modern updates. But this show lives in a netherworld that is both modern and old. Still Noir… but better.

An audio drama that follows Detective Sarah Elsher on a mind-bending thrill ride. Follow Sarah as she uncovers dark secrets of corruption and crime within her city and police department. Can Sarah track down the suspects before it's too late?

Crime stories from the Indian Sub-Continent. A curated series of audio fiction podcasts from award-winning creators Ayeesha Menon, Nadir Khan and John Scott Dryden recorded in Mumbai, India.

A private investigator and his mysterious assistant fend off bombs, a homicidal ex, the FBI, and an alligator while trying to manage their sexual attraction and ever-growing resentment.

Rick McNamara’s attempt to install an in-ground pool plunges him deep into a world of secrets, conspiracies, and deceptions. As he seeks out help in his quest for pool ownership, Rick quickly realizes that the townspeople of Caldwell County are not all what they seem to be.

A full-cast audio drama, resurrecting the lost silent horror classic, directed by Tod Browning and starring Lon Chaney. Originally released in 1927, the film was lost in the notorious 1965 MGM vault fire.

Set in a lethal pro football league 700 years in the future, Aliens and humans alike play positions based on physiology, creating receivers that jump 25 feet into the air, linemen that bench-press 1,200 pounds, and linebackers that literally want to eat you.

From the annals of American criminal history come sensational cases that captured and held the public’s imagination. Investigations carried out by legends of law enforcement, in pursuit of some of the most notorious criminals from the 19th and 20th centuries.

An audio comedy about Santa’s bastard daughter solving hardboiled Christmas crimes on the North Pole. Candy is a death-metal-loving, peppermint-schnapps-swilling PI trying to solve the North Pole’s first murder in 500 years without learning the true meaning of Christmas.

A fake beard, a conspiracy theorist, suspects for miles, and two teen podcasters on the scene to get to the bottom of the mystery.

An ex-conman turned undercover cop in the middle of the biggest case of his career—the gang are getting suspicious, his wife wants a divorce, the police are demanding results and his ex girlfriend is blackmailing him. Not an ideal situation for someone with a burning need to please everybody...

A gritty tale of crime, betrayal, and moral apathy, where the difference between friend and foe is blurred line after line.

When a handsome tobacco heir dies mysteriously, a private investigator with a deep knowledge of the occult and a dubious reputation agrees to assist in uncovering the truth behind the young man’s fate, he must navigate a dangerous landscape to thwart the plans of those responsible.

The Capital city and its art galleries, bars, restaurants, and long-held secrets are featured in this cozy-inspired mystery that is as unpredictable as the mighty Susquehanna River it sits on.

Based on actual events. A drug smuggler finds God, and turns against the cartel, working as an undercover operative to take them down from the inside. Based on Dr. Hal Bradley’s book, “A Fox In The Lion’s Den.”

Sherlock Holmes has become 'real’, as a 3D bioprint, and soon learns that he was the fictional creation of Conan Doyle. Can he solve both the riddle of himself and a monstrous crime now that all his methods have been surpassed by technology?

When a new lead prompts a fresh look at a cold case, Special Agent Nicole Baumer is tasked with finding out what really happened to sixteen year old Erin Michaels. But as parallels surface between her past and Erin’s, Nicole must finally confront her own trauma in order to save her.

The tale of how ATF agent Darrin “Koz” Kozlowski pulled off one of the largest organized crime busts in a generation. This gritty, LA-after-dark story dives deep into the world of one of the most dangerous motorcycle clubs in Los Angeles, bringing these unbelievable true events to life.

Desperate to finally solve the decades-old cold case of her best friend’s murder, Margot Ingell returns to the scene of the crime. Will the discovery of a long-lost diary reveal the killer, or will the secret forever remain at the bottom of Camp Ashwood’s lake?

Murder, We Spoke is a podcast in a podcast in a podcast. The series dives into people’s obsession with true crime and satirizes the true crime culture. This dark comedy series asks listeners to consider, how far would they go for fame.

In a queer-normative future that isn’t all rainbows and sparkles, the justice you receive depends on your job – assuming you can get it at all. Enter vigilante detective Andersson Dexter, whose beat covers both the physical world and the online universe Marionette City.

A noir-western tale of crime and vengeance in rural Texas.

When a 14-year-old jackhammered into the water main at the mall, twenty-three people drowned. Three people were electrocuted in the arcade. Two people were fatally bitten by a hammerhead shark that escaped from the mall’s aquarium. And the teenager responsible was never found. No body. No trace.

Originally heard on Radiotopia’s Showcase, THE POLYBIUS CONSPIRACY tells the story of a mysterious arcade game from the '80s whose alleged existence in the Pacific Northwest is fueled by a blending of fact and fiction.

TANIS is a serialized docudrama about a fascinating and surprising mystery: the myth of TANIS. TANIS is an exploration of the nature of truth, conspiracy, and information. TANIS is what happens when the lines of science and fiction start to blur…

After a tragedy in the national forest, Peregrine seeks out survivalist skills from an old recluse. In this fictional documentary, producer Brett Ryback explores grief, adolescence, and our precarious relationship to the wilderness - all set against a sleepy Minnesota town.

What would it be like if we were presented with the chance to live in a non threatening world? Would we embrace the chance of a new life view…or would we revert and mould our new circumstances to what has been familiar to us.

A retired detective breaks his village’s community when he is encouraged onto the case of a respected member’s murder.

Socio-political thriller about the ethical dilemmas that surface when the pursuit of human connection blurs the lines between technology and reality.

Our family members are not always who we think. When Eleonore exposed her father’s dark legacy, she vowed to clean up the family business – and hired her half-brother to help her do it. But old habits die hard. As her father always taught her growing up, medicine is a bloody business.

Heather Haskins went missing two years ago. Discovered aboard a flight without a ticket or identification, she now believes she's a woman named Coral Goran - and that it's 1938.

At an affluent dinner party, a snowstorm begins to rage outside, trapping all the partygoers inside their host’s mansion. When a murderer starts killing off those in attendance, the guests must figure out who is responsible, or at least how to stay alive -- lest they be next.

Cruises are the murder capital of the sea and the sea is the murder capital of the world. One human has jurisdiction over international waters and she’s here to tame the seas and water the skis.

When a local man goes missing at a shadowy billion-dollar tech company’s new compound in the middle of Noware, Nebraska; a fencing contractor finds himself balancing a lagging job that could put him out of business and a homespun investigation into the mystery that entangles the entire town.

London, 2029. Detective Inspector Neil Nowak is investigating the case of three missing people. He discovers that each person in question had an identical, strange digital recorder, locked in a black box and hidden in their homes, each with over an hour of recording.

Follow a brooding, sharp-witted private eye on Mars, as he tangles with an elusive homme fatale, tracks dangerous artifacts of an ancient alien civilization, and faces his three greatest fears: heights, blood, and relationships.

A fantasy audio drama that explores ancient ruins, sails the high seas, and questions whether friendship truly is magic—all while cracking pirate skulls and dabbling in high explosives! Can three unlikely heroes keep from arguing long enough to thwart a diabolical conspiracy?

When a mysterious guest is found dead during the grand opening of a new lunar resort, two detectives are sent to investigate. What they find is a rich assortment of potential suspects, and the emergence of a mystery that goes deeper than they imagined.

An anonymous teenage girl starts a gossip radio show to report on the events of her small southern town. In her quest to uncover the latest scoop, she becomes entangled in the midst of a mystery.

Out in the far reaches of Los Angeles County, where the glamor of Hollywood fades into the long empty of the desert, two unlicensed private detectives are about to face a case that is larger and more complicated then any they’ve faced before.

150 years ago, the S.S. Cumberland disappeared in the Pacific Northwest. A lifeboat from the ship with four skeletons inside just mysteriously showed up in Marrow Passage. Reporter Daisy Bonham attempts to solve the mystery and find out what other secrets are lurking just below the surface.

A detective investigating a bizarre serial killer stumbles upon a conspiracy by a thousand-year-old vampire to return humanity to its “superior” primal capabilities.

Evelyn Green, a hard-hitting journalist, and Thomas Wright, a detective-in-training, become unlikely partners as they investigate the peculiar deaths of ex-detectives Frank and Lilah. Listen along and piece together the mystery as they fall into the chaos of the supernatural!

The story of two writers, both working in a Spanish prison in the reign of General Franco - but on different sides of the bars.

Alice yearns for something more in life. She has a low-stress job, a steady relationship, and a nephew she loves looking after, but she can’t shake the feeling that something isn’t quite right. A phone call turns everything upside down, making her the perfect target for a cybercrime.

An assortment of people living on the fringes of respectable society, in locations across the world, find themselves caught up in nefarious plots far beyond their experience, caught in the nexus of history-making events.

Detective Sergeant John Billings has risen swiftly through the ranks to become one of Scotland Yard’s youngest detectives, but in his private life he struggles with loneliness and morphine addiction. But he will lead you on a thrilling journey into the darkest recesses of Victorian society.

An FDA and FBI agent team up to solve a string of murders occurring around the country, targeting victims seemingly at random through poisoned water… only to discover the connection that unveils the killer.

An atmospheric, unsettling folk horror audio drama that explores the true nature of humanity and the deep, dark secrets we all try to hide. The Woods Are Watching.

After a night of drinking, canceled comedian Dean Blackshaw is found dead in a comedy club green room. Now his friend and fellow comic, Anne-Marie, has to put together the pieces of a blacked-out night, solve the crime, and wonder if it was all her fault.