True crime has become a guilty pleasure. Driving to pick up my kids, folding laundry, squeezing in a walk after work — all have become opportunities to listen to a true crime podcast. I've burned through everything from cold cases and serial killers to financial fraud and missing-person investigations.
So I decided to see if ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode could give me on-demand true crime stories. I've tried it before with less-than-perfect results, but now that ChatGPT is significantly better in 2026, I figured I'd give it another try.
For a full week, every time I reached for Spotify, I opened ChatGPT instead. I had it walk me through famous unsolved mysteries, explain competing forensic theories and even build entirely fictional cases from scratch.
