Murder In America

Courtney Shannon and Colin Browen come to Murder In America from The Paranormal Files, a YouTube channel with close to a million subscribers, and you can hear the on-camera experience in the way they pace episodes. The hook is simple and it works: every episode picks a state, then picks a case from that state, and they actually travel to a lot of the locations they cover. The result is true crime that feels more like a road trip than a studio recording. Since 2021 they've put out over 230 episodes and the show sits at a 4.8 rating across more than 8,000 reviews, which is the kind of number you don't fake. Colin handles most of the heavy narrative lifting while Courtney pushes back with questions a listener might actually have, and the dynamic keeps things from drifting into monologue territory. They're respectful about victims without getting preachy about it, and the paranormal background occasionally surfaces when a case has unexplained elements, which is a nice change of pace from shows that treat everything like a courtroom transcript. New episodes drop Fridays. The bonus material lives on Patreon if you want to support them directly. Worth adding to your rotation if you like your true crime with a sense of place, a real co-host chemistry, and hosts who've clearly been doing this long enough to know what they're doing.