10 Best Crime Podcasts New Zealand Edition 2025

1. GUILT - Finding Heidi

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*FREE Episodes Released every Monday. Subscribers get Early Release, Ad Free Listening and Bonus Episodes**In this hit investigative podcast, Actor & Lawyer Ryan Wolf investigates some of New Zealand's most enduring unsolved criminal cases.Season Three In 1989 two Swedish backpackers, Heidi Paakkonen and Sven Urban Hoglin arrived in New Zealand for the trip of a lifetime. And never went home. They were last seen alive together in Thames on April 7th 1989. One year after their mysterious disappearance Urban Hoglin's body would be found and confirmed a brutal murder...MORE Host Ryan Wolf
Producer/Network Brevity Studios
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Facebook 4.3KInstagram 18.9K Avg Length 42 min Get Email Contact Get Influential Podcasters ContactsGet access to 100k active Podcasters, Influencers in 1500 niche categories.Get targeted media contact list in your niche at your fingertips so you can focus on running your campaign.Email us the categories of Podcasters you want to reach out for your marketing campaign at anuj@feedspot.com Copy email. We'll share active Podcasters list with verified email contacts in an Excel or CSV format.Email us

2. A Moment In Crime

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From the NZ Herald newsroom comes A Moment in Crime - a podcast delving into some of New Zealand's biggest cases.Anna Leask has been a crime and justice reporter at the Herald for more than a decade.Each month she'll take you inside some of our most infamous incidents, notorious offenders and behind the scenes of high profile trials and events to show you what's really happening in your backyard.MORE Host Anna Leask
Producer/Network The New Zealand Herald
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Apple Rating 4.5/5 Avg Length 58 min Get Email Contact

3. DELVE

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A mother jailed. A family separated...But everything is not as it seems. From award-winning investigative journalist Melanie Reid and her team comes their latest podcast, Fractured. Listen as they unravel how the dream of a new life in a new country became an unimaginable nightmare for a young couple. In this years-long investigation, they take the medical evidence used to imprison a first-time mother to international specialists and ask whether a common diagnosis helping to convict parents all over the world is flawed...MORE Host Melanie Reid
Producer/Network newsroom.co.nz
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Apple Rating 4.6/5 Avg Length 31 min Get Email Contact

4. The Lost Boy

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One ordinary day almost a decade ago, John Beckenridge abducted his stepson, Mike, from school and vanished.Police investigated for four years, but with no proof of what happened, asked a court to make sense of the crime.That court heard dozens of hours of evidence, and tried to determine how a marriage breakdown became a manhunt and then a mystery.As well as a kidnapping, the story includes cryptic phone messages, a car plunging from an 80-metre cliff and allegations of secret bank accounts, criminal accomplices and illegal border crossings...MORE Hosts Michael Wright, Shannon Redstall
Producer/Network Stuff
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Apple Rating 3.3/5 Avg Length 32 min Get Email Contact

5. Gone Fishing

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| Winner Best Podcast NZ Radio Awards 2019 | | Winner Gold Medal  New York Festivals Radio Awards 2019 | | Winner Best Investigative Radio/Audio Series  The AIBs 2019 | Gail Maney was sent to prison on her son's birthday. The police said she'd put a hit on a man who stole drugs from her. She went to jail for 15 years. She's consistently denied having anything to do with the disappearance of Deane Fuller-Sandys. In fact, she says, she never even met him. She isn't sure he was murdered at all. She thinks he'd just … gone fishing...MORE Hosts Amy Maas, Adam Dudding
Producer/Network Stuff | RNZ
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Facebook 341.8KTwitter 93.9KInstagram 107.4K Avg Length 30 min Get Email Contact

6. True Crime New Zealand (NZ)

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True Crime New Zealand is a Kiwi-based true crime podcast. It is storytelling based on no opinion, just facts. We are trying to give the big picture of these crimes with context as well as investigating what happened subsequently and how the crime affected the wider community of NZ.MORE Producer/Network True Crime New Zealand
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Apple Rating 4.1/5Facebook 10KTwitter 108Instagram 564 Avg Length 30 min Get Email Contact

7. Crimes NZ

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Jesse Mulligan talks with investigators, journalists and others about major crimes in New Zealand
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Producer/Network RNZ Originals
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Apple Rating 4.4/5 Avg Length 26 min Get Email Contact