Canadian True Crime has been downloaded more than 75 million times globally and is consistently in the top Canadian charts.

Accolades

2024

• Canadian True Crime named the #8 podcast in Canada (Apple Podcasts)

• The #8 episode in Canada - The Murderous Mountie - Part 1 (Apple Podcasts)

• The #2 Podcast in Canada (Annual Canadian Podcast Listener Report 2024)

• One of The 10 Best Canadian Podcasts of 2024 (Pod the North)

• One of the 20 Best Podcasts in Canada, Top Podcasts, Most Followed (Amazon Music’s Best of 2024)
  

Previous years

• 2023:
  The #5 podcast in Canada overall

  The #2 True Crime Podcast in Canada overall

  The #7 Top Episode in Canada overall - The Trial of Hedley’s Jacob Hoggard - Part 1 (Apple Podcasts)
  

• 2022:
  The #4 podcast in Canada (Apple Podcasts)

  Featured in Amazon Music’s 2022 advertising campaigns on transit and a digital billboard at Yonge Dundas square (Toronto)
  

• 2020:
  Ten Biggest Shows of 2020 in Canada (Apple Podcasts)
  

• 2019:
  Best Listens 2019 (Apple Podcasts)

Please note: we don’t actively seek publicity for the podcast, and Kristi Lee prefers to remain behind-the-scenes.

New documentary “Breaking Idol” — Jacob Hoggard accusers come into light  #FIRSTLOOK, MrWillWong.com, Decmeber 2025

Will the ‘Breaking Idol’ Documentary Release on Netflix? What Is the Jacob Hoggard Film All About?, Netflix Junkie, December 2025

New rules on publication bans cleared way for victim to come forward, CBC News, November 2025

Clinging to hope: Twenty-five years after Beverley Rowbotham was slain, her family believes a mysterious letter could shed light on the case that gripped Manitoba, Winnipeg Free Press, October 2025

7 Podcasts Every Canadian Should Subscribe to in 2025, Pod The North, January 2025

Canadian True Crime Podcast examines heinous crimes of Kingston’s Richard Joyce, Kingstonist, February 2024

These women use true crime podcasts to lull themselves to sleep—experts explain why it works, CNBC, October 2023

New West trans woman's killing remembered in true crime podcast, Vancouver is Awesome, April 2023

The best podcasts of 2022, CBC, December 2022

10 Great Canadian Podcasts You Should Be Listening To, Reader’s Digest Canada, May 2021

15 True crime podcasts that are all murder and no boring banter, Buzzfeed, December 2021

Nearly decade long case of missing Vanderhoof woman showcased on international podcast, My Prince George Now, January 2021

How to bear podcasting burnout with Kristi Lee and John Asante, Timber.FM October 2020 (requires email address to read, sorry)

Reflecting on the 6th Anniversary of the murder of Loretta Saunders - Labrador Morning with Janice Goudie - CBC Radio, interview starts at the 14:45 minute mark, February 13, 2020

Kristi Lee: ‘I didn’t think that I would ever be able to monetize the podcast [PDF clipping], The Globe and Mail, January 13, 2020. Also online here.

The one where we talk about Canadian True Crime, The Papaya Podcast, November 4, 2019

This week in True-Crime Podcasts: Red Ball, Night Time, and More, Vulture, December 2019

The best Canadian podcasts to listen to — according to podcasters, CBC, November 12,2019

6 true crime podcasts with connections to Saskatchewan, CBC, August 2 2019

Catching up with CTC’s Kristi Lee, Vocal Fry Studios, September 21, 2018

Our addiction to true crime has a human cost, Globe and Mail, October 2018

More Women Than Ever Are Podcasters. Here's How To Make Your Mark, Huffington Post Canada, September 30, 2017

I Survived Domestic Violence. Now I'm Drawn to True Crime Podcasts, The New York Times, July 19, 2017