There doesn’t seem to be anybody on this planet that didn’t get hooked on viral sensation Reesa Teesa and her 50-part TikTok series ‘Who TF Did I Marry!’ But like any good binger…it leaves you wanting more! While her story has ended, there are several just as good and shocking true story-inspired podcasts.
Here is a list of our favorites:
- Ex-Wives Undercover: Liars, Cheaters & Love Cons
We had to put a shameless plug for our podcast. But, if you love Dirty John, The Tinder Swindler, or Reesa’s Who TF Did I Marry?, then this is a must-listen.
In seasons 1 and 2, ex-wives Amber and Athena, join forces to go undercover to find out the truth about their mutual ex-husband. What they discovered was beyond any of their wildest imaginations. And when, they launched Ex-Wives Undercover podcast to help protect other women, all hell broke loose and the story took a crazy left turn that ended with saving the life of one unsuspecting victim.
2. Dirty John
One of the OG podcasts in the love con genre, Dirty John is definitely a wild ride of shocking twists and turns. Debra Newell is a successful interior designer. She meets John Meehan, a handsome man who seems to check all the boxes: attentive, available, just back from a year in Iraq with Doctors Without Borders. But her family doesn’t like John, and they get entangled in an increasingly complex web of love, deception, forgiveness, denial, and ultimately, survival.
3. Betrayal: The Perfect Husband
This is a story of a real-life fairytale gone horribly wrong. It’s a cautionary tale about a marriage so filled with betrayal and deceit, that many people are still recovering from its path of destruction. This is the story of Jenifer Faison. After 20 years apart, Jenifer reconnected with her college sweetheart, Spencer Herron. He was a two-time Teacher of the Year and Jen was convinced she married the perfect husband. On June 1, 2018, that all changed. Jenifer came home to find Spencer holding a search warrant. He had sexually assaulted one of his students. In the days that followed Spencer’s arrest, Jenifer uncovered a dark, secret life her husband had been living during their entire marriage.
4. Something Was Wrong
This podcast is another OG of true crime-adjacent topics and tales of love gone wrong. They describe themselves as a docuseries about the discovery, trauma and recovery from crime, shocking life events and abusive relationships.
Our top picks from the numerous seasons is – season 1, season 9 and season 12.
5. The Dichotomy Diaries
This podcast is fairly new on the scene but so far has packed quite a shocking punch as far as love crime stories go. Brace yourself for tales of manipulation, domestic turmoil, narcissistic intrigue, and financial deceit—all driven by the intoxicating illusion of love.