Canadian True Crime has been downloaded more than 75 million times globally and is consistently in the top Canadian charts.
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Accolades
2025
Named as one of the Best Canadian Podcasts of 2025 (Amazon Music)
2024
Named the #8 podcast in Canada (Apple Podcasts)
Named The #8 episode in Canada - The Murderous Mountie - Part 1 (Apple Podcasts)
Named the #2 Podcast in Canada (Canadian Podcast Listener Report 2024)
Named one of The 10 Best Canadian Podcasts of 2024 (Pod the North)
Named one of the 20 Best Podcasts in Canada, Top Podcasts, Most Followed (Amazon Music’s Best of 2024)
Previous years
2023:
Named the #5 podcast in Canada overallNamed the #2 True Crime Podcast in Canada overall
Named the #7 Top Episode in Canada overall - The Trial of Hedley’s Jacob Hoggard - Part 1 (Apple Podcasts)
2022:
Named 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:
Named one of ten Biggest Shows of 2020 in Canada (Apple Podcasts)2019:
Named one of Best Listens 2019 (Apple Podcasts)
Please note: Kristi Lee prefers to remain behind-the-scenes and doesn’t typically seek publicity for the podcast.
Press
Kristi Lee: Canadian True Crime at 200,
The Sound Off Podcast, February 2026
I Was Sexually Assaulted By A Celebrity. Here’s Why I’m Going Public by Jessica Baker, as told to Flannery Dean, Chatelaine, January 2026
5 True Crime Podcasts with a Trauma-Informed Approach,
Earbuds Podcast Collective, January 2026
Kristi Lee Joins The Social, CTV, January 2026
'Canadian True Crime’ host Kristi Lee on her 200th episode milestone, Broadcast Dialogue, January 2026
Why Canadian brands need to be advertising on Canadian podcasts in 2026, Pod the North, January 2026
Canadian True Crime is publishing its 200th episode today, (part of) podnews, January 2026
Behind the scenes with Kristi Lee from Canadian True Crime, CBC Crime Story with Kathleen Goldhar, December 2025, also on YouTube
Faceless, nameless no more. Survivor of Hedley frontman’s sexual assault sheds her anonymity, shares her story of the crime and its aftermath,
Winnipeg Free Press, December 2025
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