The podcast My Mom’s Murder is hosted by Lauren Malloy, whose entry point into the case is the most personal one possible — she believed she knew how her mother died, and then new information arrived that undid that. What follows is a years-later investigation she pursues herself, chasing answers, accountability, and some version of closure in a case that had already been filed away.
The structure is familiar to anyone who listens to investigative true crime, but what separates this one is the emotional register. Malloy isn’t performing grief or performing toughness — she sounds like someone who genuinely didn’t expect to be doing this and is doing it anyway because the alternative is worse. The personal-investigation format has been done many times over, but when the host has actual stakes and the journalism is sound, it elevates the whole thing. Available on Wondery and Apple Podcasts.
