The best true-crime podcasts of 2025: from Deep Cover to Scam Inc

Chilling mysteries to keep you on the edge of your seat

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Deep Cover

This "meaty investigative podcast" delves into the motivations and mysteries behind people who have lived double lives, said Phil Harrison and Hannah J Davies in The Guardian. The most recent series tells the "audacious tale" of Sarah Cavanaugh, who was unmasked in 2022 after extracting money from the US government while posing as a decorated military veteran suffering from cancer. Cavanaugh had not only deceived institutions, but also her loved ones, even her wife. Presenters, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jake Halpern and journalist and prolific writer Jess McHugh, "go deep" into the psychological and real-world implications of this notorious deceiver.

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