Best New True Crime Podcasts of February 2026
I am back with a new list of true crime podcast recommendations! These are the best true crime podcasts that I have binged on throughout February 2026. Don’t worry, I am always a month behind as I always listen to every true crime podcast before I recommend it and believe it or not, there were three other true crime podcasts that I listened to this past month but they didn’t make the list - we have high standards here!
1. Kinahans Downfall - Hosted By Damien Lane - The Irish Sun.
I featured season one of this true crime podcast The Kinahans in my Top 8 New True Crime Podcasts of May 2023 blog. If you haven’t already listened to season one then you should go back and listen now, before listening to season two Kinahans Downfall which, as the title suggest, covers the fall of the Kinahan cartel and is the sequel to season one.
In this true crime podcast, across ten episodes, host Damien Lane:
“… explores the extraordinary domestic demise and fragile future of the Kinahan Cartel.… delving into the crime groups’ shady alliances with Iranian networks, Hezbollah and South American drug gangs.” (Source here).
This gripping true crime podcast will have you at the edge of your seat as it dives into:
“… the very heart of the State’s relentless campaign against the criminal organisation that waged open war on Irish streets between 2016 and 2018. Utilising reconstructed Garda wiretaps and expert contributions from Gardaí, FBI agents, former criminals, sanctions experts, and others, Kinahans Downfall brings listeners inside the world of the Kinahan mob and their crimes.” (Source here).
A really excellent true crime podcast that gives you a great insight into this crime family and the wider criminal underworld in which they operate.
This is the perfect true crime podcast to binge right now as all ten episodes are already available.
2. World of Secrets: The Darkest Web - Hosted By Sam Piranty - BBC News World Service.
World of Secrets is back with another excellent true crime podcast. In World of Secrets: The Darkest Web “two US special agents infiltrate the dark web to rescue children.”:
“Somewhere in America, a twelve year old girl is being abused in her own home. Her abuser is sharing photographs of her with a vast community of child abusers on the ‘dark web’ - an encrypted corner of the internet where users are untraceable. But, hidden amongst the paedophiles, are two men whose job it is to try and find her: US Special Agents Greg Squire and Pete Manning.” (Source here).
The host of this true crime podcast is BBC Eye journalist Sam Piranty and he has been following the work of the two aforementioned US special agents for over seven years! So as you can imagine, this true crime story is extremely detailed and thorough.
The first three episodes are out now and you will not be able to stop listening once you begin!
3. Spiral: Murder in Detroit - Hosted By Frannie Block - The Free Press Investigates.
This next true crime podcast Spiral: Murder in Detroit, investigates the October 21st 2023 murder of forty-year old Jewish community leader Samantha Woll. Woll was stabbed to death outside her home exactly two weeks after the October 7th 2023 attacks on Israel.
“Investigators follow a mysterious figure caught on camera: Is this truly a hate crime, or something else?” (Source here).
I was not at all familiar with this sad case. The facts and timeline of the murder are very well laid out and examined in this true crime podcast. There are some major curve-balls! The ending of this podcast is left open for future episodes and I really hope they come soon as the fight for justice continues.
There are five episodes available now.
4. Burden of Guilt (Season 2) - Hosted By Nancy Glass.
Nancy Glass is back with season two of her true crime podcast Burden of Guilt. This season, Glass investigates a grave miscarriage of justice and tells listeners:
“… the story of a devastating lie that sent an innocent man to prison for life until a confession changed everything, forcing a reckoning with guilt, justice, and redemption.” (Source here).
Wow, this is a unbelievably sad story, a lie is told and an innocent man named Jermain Hudson is convicted of a crime he didn’t commit and sentenced to 99 years in prison - until:
“More than two decades later, the man whose testimony put him there - Bobby Gumpright - finally told the real story. Through court records, firsthand interviews, and intimate access to both men, Burden of Guilt explores how addiction, fear, and systemic failures collided and what justice, accountability, and redemption look like when the truth finally comes out.” (Source here).
A really captivating true crime podcast. The first three episodes are out now!
5. Two Faced: John of God - Hosted By Martina Castro - Exactly Right & iHeartPodcasts.
If you like true crime Guru related podcasts then this is the podcast for you! In this podcast Two Faced: John of God host Martina Castro tells the story of João Teixeira de Faria:
“To thousands of people around the world, João Teixeira de Faria was known as John of God, a traditional Brazilian spiritual healer famous for performing miraculous medical procedures without anaesthesia. But in 2018, it became clear that John of God was keeping a dark secret that would ultimately lead to his downfall. In this series, we follow a guru who built a holy empire, the criminal activity that made it possible and the powerful network of believers who protect him even to this day. Two-Faced: John of God is a story about the reach of global faith healing movements, the power of belief and just how far we will go before we question it all.” (Source here).
The stories told by some of the young female victims of João Teixeira de Faria throughout this true crime podcast are truly harrowing, so raw and agonising; they are hard to listen to but clearly show how manipulating and powerful he was and how he abused his power in the worst possible way.
All five episodes are out now.
6. Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada (Season 36) - Hosted By Rachel Browne - CBC.
Next up we have a Cult related true crime podcast that honestly sounds like something out of a dystopian Hollywood movie!
The story of Uncover: The Cult Queen of Canada podcast begins in a tiny Saskatchewan town where a cult leader takes over an abandoned school and:
“As neighbours turn on each other, a retired teacher leads resistance in a story about what happens when online extremism spills into the real world.” (Source here).
Hearing from town locals as they explain what living in the town was like before the arrival of the cult, just how small and close-knit it was and then how it changes so quickly and drastically after the cult arrives - if it could happen to this town, it really could happen anywhere! We learn a lot about the cult leader and her wider networks and connections.
Only the first two episodes are available so far so get listening and all caught up before episode three drops as I already can tell its going to be good!
7. Kiss and Kill - Hosted By Alison Sandy - 7News.
This brand new Australian true crime podcast is brought to us by Alison Sandy who you may remember from the excellent and previously featured true crime podcasts The Lady Vanishes which I featured way back in 2019 and The Truth About Amy which I featured in July 2024 - both well worth a listen if you haven’t already!
In Kiss and Kill we visit many of the same themes and topics that were at the centre of Sandy’s previous true crime podcasts such as recognising narcissistic men, coercive control, gas-lighting, rushed intimacy and other major red flags in a relationship that if go ignored often lead to intimate partner homicide. This podcast is:
“An explosive 7NEWS podcast reveals the chilling patterns that could have predicted some of Australia’s most shocking crimes.” (Source here).
We are taken back to a series of intimate partner murders that shocked Australia and:
“… inside the minds of narcissists who murdered the women who trusted them, uncovering strikingly similar pathways followed by killers Gerard Baden-Clay, Borce Ristevski, Louis Mahony, Tyrone Thompson, Anthony Eriksen and Charles Evans.” (Source here).
This is a really interesting and insightful true crime podcast that is essential listening in my opinion.
The first three episodes are out now.
8. Someone’s Hunting Us - Hosted By Rebecca Everett & Daysi Calavia-Robertson - NJ.com.
In Someone’s Hunting Us we are taken back to 2016 in New Jersey where a serial killer is at large:
“In 2016, Black girls and women were disappearing mysteriously from New Jersey. A serial killer was preying on victims he thought no one would miss — and getting away with it. Police in New Jersey never suspected that Khalil Wheeler-Weaver, a nerdy-looking, polite young man from a law enforcement family, was the one stalking the streets and dating apps for his next target.” (Source here).
The hosts investigate four murders and a fifth attempted murder. They explore the connection between the murderer and the victims. They highlight how the victims positions in their societies, as well as their social and racial standings led Police to overlook their murders and not investigate them as thoroughly as they would have under different circumstances. This meant that the victims loved ones (family members and close friends) needed to do their own investigations, to uncover the truth and bring the murderer to justice.
The hosts aim to:
“… understand and expose the systemic issues and failures that made it possible for Khalil Wheeler-Weaver to kill repeatedly. (Source here).
The first seven episodes are available now.
9. Murder at The U - 30 For 30 Podcasts.
Murder at The U is a true crime podcast investigating the 2006 murder of Bryan Pata. At the time of his murder Bryan Pata was attending the University of Miami where he played collage football and was well on his way to changing his life and those of his family as he progressed in his American football career beyond college and towards the NFL.
“Instead, one night in early November, Bryan was shot dead outside his apartment complex coming home from practice.” (Source here).
So far this case is quite mysterious and knowing nothing about this story prior to finding this true crime podcast, its really just starting to unfold for me as I listen and even still developing. In fact, this year, 2026, a suspect is headed to court on trial for the murder of Bryan Pata:
“Murder at The U tells the story of a shocking, high-profile murder investigation and what happened when a team of reporters tried to get to the bottom of who killed Bryan Pata.” (Source here).
So, best you get listening now and get familiar with this true crime story before you start seeing it in the current day true crime podcast news cycle!
The first six episodes are out now.
10. The Slow Newscast: The God Complex - Hosted By Rachel Sylvester - The Observer.
This two-part true crime podcast series is shocking but completely engrossing. The Slow Newscast: The God Complex is a medical true crime story:
“When an esteemed transplant surgeon is found to have sexually harassed a number of his female colleagues — sometimes in the middle of operations — the General Medical Council recommends that he be struck off the medical register. But that is not what happens.” (Source here).
The host Rachel Sylvester investigates the surgeon at the centre of this crime story and what she uncovers is more than she could ever have imagined - this isn’t a one-off but it is in fact “symptomatic of a much wider problem in surgery.”
We hear from those who were harassed by the surgeon in question as well as from “Patient A” who clearly illustrates that patients are also at risk.
A really astounding true crime story, I wish there were more than two parts as its obvious there is so much more to this story.
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