🏆true crime hosts ranked by storytelling craft, not downloads

the biggest download numbers are not the best written shows. fight me in the suggestions

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

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

Rasha Pecoraro & Yvette Gentile, Root of Evil

Brian Reed, S-Town

one season and it's basically a novel. structurally the most ambitious thing on this list

Sarah Koenig, Serial

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

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

Payne Lindsey, Up and Vanished

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