🏆true crime hosts ranked by storytelling craft, not downloads
the biggest download numbers are not the best written shows. fight me in the suggestions
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1
Casefile's anonymous host
no name, no face, no jokes, and somehow the most gripping narrator in the genre. pacing is the whole skill and he never wastes a sentence
2
Sarah Marshall, You're Wrong About
not strictly true crime but the craft is unmatched, she can make you rethink a case you thought you already understood
3
Rasha Pecoraro & Yvette Gentile, Root of Evil
4
Brian Reed, S-Town
one season and it's basically a novel. structurally the most ambitious thing on this list
5
Sarah Koenig, Serial
6
Karen Kilgariff & Georgia Hardstark, My Favorite Murder
banter over craft, and i say that as someone who has listened to hundreds of their episodes. it's comfort food, not literature
7
Ashley Flowers, Crime Junkie
putting her this low will get suggestions arguing with me. the format is TOO efficient, flattens every case into the same shape
8
Payne Lindsey, Up and Vanished
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