Listener sentiment
Crime Weekly continues to command fierce loyalty from its audience, with the large majority of recent ratings describing it as the gold standard of true crime podcasts. Listeners return repeatedly to the same touchstones: Stephanie Harlowe's exhaustive, primary-source-driven research and Derrick Levasseur's law-enforcement and private-investigator perspective, which together produce multi-part deep dives that listeners say consistently surface details other shows miss. The hosts' chemistry, respectful victim-centered tone, and back-to-back CrimeCon audience awards are cited as further proof of the show's standing. The most persistent criticism cluster remains the Lindsay Clancy coverage, where multiple reviewers — including some longtime listeners — expressed deep disappointment with what they saw as a dismissive or ill-informed treatment of postpartum psychosis, with a few indicating they are stepping away from the show entirely. Recurring frustrations also include format drift (dragged-out multi-part series with repetitive teasing of upcoming content, an overlong crime-news segment, horoscopes, and heavy ad breaks), Stephanie's lengthy opinionated tangents and speculative leaps, the increased use of raw 911 and court audio that some find disruptive to pacing, a desire for greater diversity in case selection, and a handful of vitriolic personal attacks on the hosts' on-air relationship dynamic. These criticisms remain a clear minority against an otherwise devoted and growing audience.
Apple4.7 · 1,094
Summary generated Sep 5, 2026
