10 Best New Zealand Crime Podcasts
New Zealand Crime Podcasts
Here are 10 Best New Zealand Crime Podcasts worth listening to in 2026. Subscribe in one place on FeedSpot Reader.
Export Contact List1. GUILT
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*FREE Episodes Released every Monday during active seasons. Paid Brevity Subscribers get Early Release, Ad Free Listening, Bonus Episodes and access to the War Room on www.theguiltpodcast.com In this hit investigative podcast, Ryan Wolf investigates some of Australasia's most enduring unsolved criminal cases. Season Six On August 28th 1999, 16 year old Jessica Gaudie was babysitting in Nambour, Sunshine Coast, Australia, when she vanished without a trace...MORE Host Ryan Wolf
Producer/Network Brevity Studios
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Location Auckland, New Zealand
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Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 3KFacebook 4.7KInstagram 21.6K Avg Length 43 min Format Long form Get Email Contact Get access to full database of 2.7M podcastsCreate podcast lists, export in spreadsheet or CSV file with email contacts and start your podcast outreach in minutes.Sign Up for Free with Email Continue with Google
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
Email ****@nzherald.co.nz
Location Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 108 Avg Length 45 min Format Long form Get Email Contact
3. DELVE
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**Subscribe for early episodes and to hear every season ad-free.** SERIES 9 - DIAGNOSIS OF A CRIME: Imagine being told that what's wrong with your child isn't an illness or an accident, but a crime. From the team behind The Boy in the Water and Fractured, Diagnosis of a Crime takes you inside the lives of families torn apart by a medical diagnosis. Join us for Melanie Reid's latest groundbreaking investigation, where medicine and law combine, and nothing is quite what it seems...MORE Host Melanie Reid
Producer/Network newsroom.co.nz
Email ****@newsroom.co.nz
Location Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 1K Avg Length 36 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact
4. 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
Email ****@fairfaxmedia.co.nz
Location Greater Wellington, New Zealand
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 602Facebook 457KTwitter 93.2KInstagram 152.3K Avg Length 30 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact
5. True Crime New Zealand (NZ)
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True Crime New Zealand is a kiwi based true crime podcast. It is storytelling based with 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.www.truecrimenz.comMORE Producer/Network True Crime New Zealand
Email ****@gmail.com
Location New Zealand
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 213Facebook 9.7KTwitter 108Instagram 564 Avg Length 30 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact
6. Crimes NZ
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Jesse Mulligan talks with people about their relationship to major crimes in NZ.
Host Jesse Mulligan
Producer/Network RNZ Originals
Email ****@rnz.co.nz
Location Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Apple Rating 4.4/5Apple Reviews 42 Avg Length 26 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact
7. 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
Email ****@press.co.nz
Location Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
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Apple Rating 3.3/5Apple Reviews 305 Avg Length 32 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact
New Zealand Crime shows hosts and producers
| Podcaster Name | Role | Podcast Link | Gender | Twitter Handle | Twitter Followers | Location | |
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| Ryan Wolf | Host | shows.acast.com/guilt | Male | New Zealand | |||
| Brevity Studios | Producer | shows.acast.com/guilt | |||||
| Anna Leask | Host | Female | @annaleask | 3.6K | Christchurch, New Zealand | ||
| NZME | Producer | ||||||
| Melanie Reid | Host | Female | Auckland, New Zealand | ||||
| Amy Maas | Co Host | interactives.stuff.co.nz/2018/06/gone-fishing | Female | @amymaas1 | 1.3K | NY, United States | |
| Adam Dudding | Co Host | interactives.stuff.co.nz/2018/06/gone-fishing | Male | @a_damn_dudding | 189 | Auckland, New Zealand | |
| Jesse Mulligan | Host | Male | Auckland, New Zealand | ||||
| Michael Wright | Co Host | Male | @mike_thepress | 489 | Christchurch, New Zealand | ||
| Shannon Redstall | Co Host | Female | @shanredstall | Berlin, Germany | |||
| True Crime New Zealand | truecrimenz.com/2019/08/12/case-8-graeme-burton-part-ii | @truecrimenz | 108 | New Zealand |