Members: Reviews: Popularity: Average rating: Conversations: 21: 5: 888,725 (4. Songs from the Phenomenal Nothing by Steven Luna. LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Nevertheless, by the time you get to these series, you will be so addicated to the impressive display of investigative journalism that you’ll gladly step-away from true crime to listen. Click to read more about Songs from the Phenomenal Nothing by Steven Luna. Serial’s most recent series (series 4, ‘Nice White Parents’ released in August 2020 and series 5, The Improvement Association released in April 2021), have moved away from the true crime genre.

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Season 3 changes tact and rather than presenting a linear story about a single event, various cases being heard and determined in the Justice Centre Complex in Cleveland are examined. Songs from the Phenomenal Nothing eBook : Luna, Steven: : Kindle Store. In season 2, Koenig and her team investigate the disappearance of Private Bowe Bergdah who walked off his US Army post in 2009 and was captured by Taliban members. For those of you who aren’t in that group of 80 million, season 1 is dedicated to investigating the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee, an 18-year-old female student at Woodland High School in Baltimore. It has also had massive international attention – by February 2016, season 1 of Serial had been downloaded over 80 million times.

Series One, especially, stands the test of time – it is as good on a 2021-lockdown re-listen as the first time we downloaded it in 2014. One cannot underestimate the impact that this groundbreaking series presented by Sarah Koenig and developed by This American Life has had on the true crime podcast genre. We unresevedly believe Serial deserves the top spot in this top true crime podcast list.