The podcast Untested: A True Crime Podcast is hosted by Gina Barton, a reporter whose background is in long-form investigative journalism rather than narrative audio production, and you can feel the difference. This is a series rooted in on-the-ground reporting — following detectives and advocates working to surface serial crimes and cold cases through DNA evidence and previously untested rape kits. The untested kit crisis in the U.S. is an ongoing and deeply undercovered story, and Barton treats it with the specificity it deserves.
This isn’t ambient true crime for background listening. It asks you to pay attention, track details, and sit with the weight of what a backlog of untested kits actually means for the people waiting for answers. That’s not a knock — it’s what makes it worth recommending. If the systemic failure angle is what interests you more than the individual cases, this one rewards that orientation. Available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
