Crime of the Truest Kind posted episode 103 on October 9, 2026, and Bear Brook starts season 3 on October 21. Start with those two if you want a new episode. The other seven are shows you can still play, and they cover Boston, other Massachusetts towns, New Hampshire, and Maine.
Two of them take on the Boston Strangler, and they are not the same series: one is a 12-part investigation, and the other is a five-episode companion to a film.
Crime of the Truest Kind
Anngelle Wood hosts Crime of the Truest Kind, and the show stays on Massachusetts and New England cases. Episode 103, posted on October 9, is the first part of her interview with journalist Dave Wedge about the death of Boston police officer John O’Keefe in Canton. She is also still going back to older Boston cases. On June 23, 2026, she replayed a 2021 episode about Karina Holmer, who was found dead in a Fenway dumpster on June 23, 1996. That June replay said new episodes would return in the fall, and the October 9 episode is the new one.
Bear Brook
Bear Brook is Jason Moon’s show for New Hampshire Public Radio. Season 1 is the case of two barrels and four bodies. Season 2 follows Jason Carroll, who is serving life in prison for a murder he says he did not commit, and the evidence the season examines is his own taped confession. Season 3 is called A Private Matter. The show’s listing says a Christmas tree farmer with dementia disappeared from his small town, his wife never reported him missing, and new episodes start on October 21, 2026.
Stranglers
Stranglers is a finished 12-part series hosted by Portland Helmich, made by Stitcher and Northern Light Productions. From June 1962 through January 1964, 13 women were murdered in Boston. Albert DeSalvo confessed and went to prison, and he was never tried for those murders. The series asks whether he was the only person who killed them, and whether Boston police and the FBI did what they could have done to stop the killings.
Truth and Lies: The Boston Strangler
Truth and Lies: The Boston Strangler is the shorter one. ABC Audio launched it on March 1, 2023, as a companion to the film, and Dick Lehr, a longtime Boston Globe journalist, hosts it. Apple lists five episodes. They start with the women who were killed and end with Keira Knightley and Carrie Coon talking about playing the reporters Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole. ABC News reported at the time that a confession and DNA evidence tied a suspect to one of the killings, and that investigators still had not settled who was responsible for all of them.
Last Seen
Last Seen began as a WBUR and Boston Globe series about the theft of 13 works from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. The first episode is about the 81 minutes of the heist, and that season looks at why none of the art had turned up. The show did not stay on the museum. Season 4, posted on May 1, 2024, is called Postmortem, and it is about stolen bodies at Harvard. An update on the sentences went up on December 23, 2025.
Ivy League Murders
Ivy League Murders is hosted by Laura Rodrigues McDonald and Sarah Alcorn, who are both from Cambridge. Alcorn is a private investigator, and their site still presents the show as historical true crime. The page does not list a dated episode from this year, so this one is a back catalog, not a show with a new episode this month.
Murder, She Told
Murder, She Told is hosted by Kristen Seavey, a victim’s advocate from Maine. She covers cold cases, unsolved murders, and missing people in Maine, the rest of New England, and small towns outside the region. The site says the show is working with Kittery police on the 1983 disappearance of Reeves Johnson.
Dark Downeast
Dark Downeast is Kylie Low’s show. She is from Maine, and she started it in 2020 after moving back from New York, because the true crime she already listened to rarely included cases from home. It covers unsolved homicides and missing-person cases in Maine and New England. Her site puts the downloads above 2.4 million.
Snitch City
Snitch City is a Boston Globe Spotlight series hosted by Dugan Arnett. He spent two years reporting on police informants in New Bedford, and the series is five episodes. The first one posted on March 11, 2025. The Globe’s newsletter on April 2, 2025 said the fifth and final episode had just been posted, so this one is finished and short enough to play straight through.
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