Hope you like at least one of them! Different opinions for everyone, of course.

LPOTL is the only place I’ve found that covered my pet case from my home state but I was so grossed out by their attitudes that I could t finish it.

LPOTL has a massive following, so I’m always cautious about warning against them. You can get a lot of hate for it, but I can’t listen to anyone who calls a victim of crime retarded, personally.

But the comparison in dynamic is...you may be fine with your local morning radio jocks and their dumb humor. But if you listen to Howard Stern (back in the real messed up days) you would be disgusted in comparison. That’s how grating LPOTL is for some of us. I hate that they are always the #1 recommendation for new listeners to true crime. It’ll well turn you off the genre.

I know the research is good, but the sense of humor with LPOTL is just infuriating and hard to listen to (as well as straight up bigoted, in early episodes).

There’s just so much good content out there:

Casefile, red handed, sinisterhood, mfm, criminal, court junkie, Canadian true crime, they walk among us; felon (dead now but they have a good back catalog), already gone (Michigan only Crimes), the vanished, invisible choir, obscura, the trail went cold, beyond contempt, southern fried true crime...

If you like storytelling true crime, you can do WAY better than last podcast on the left, without being annoyed.

I was also a huge sword and scale fan (that show is what introduced me to podcasts) before the host turned out to be a major piece of crap. I still recommend the early episodes, because those gave me the most insane visceral reactions, where I was physically ill or shaking after hearing them (see Mitchelle Blair or Luka Magnotta), but don’t subscribe and give that turd any money.

There definitely something out there for everyone. So don’t get hung up on trying to like one that isn’t for you.