Podcast Corner: Four new true crime podcasts to get you hooked

From catfishing a serial killer to stolen therapy notes held for ransom

A selection of true crime podcast series to dip into

Explosive Lies 

From the same creators as 2023’s Filthy Animals, involving scams, shamanism, and the Amazonian jungle, and last year’s Coining It (“How far would you go if the money felt endless?”), Explosive Lies is a six-part series about a scam that hoodwinked powerful forces globally who really should have known better. Jim McCormick is a wheeler-dealer who convinced governments and security services around the world that a cheap golf ball finder sold as a stocking filler was in fact a world-class, life-saving bomb detector.