The Best True Crime Podcasts It’s easy to see why: each week, host Phoebe Judge takes a look at a different crime throughout history and relays it in exceptionally lulling tones (“I’m Phoebe Judge and this is Criminal” is enough to relax even the most tightly wound among us). What differentiates Criminal from other podcasts is that these aren’t just brutal, salacious murder retellings, but any sort of crime.