Untrue Crime

So, those true crime podcasts, are they still a thing?  You know the ones I mean, the ones where a bunch of amateurs decide to reopen either an unsolved case or one where they think there has been a miscarriage of justice and re-investigate it.  The main conclusion I take away from the phenomenon is that these people have clearly seen too many TV shows about amateur sleuths outwitting the police - the likes of Father Brown and Miss Marple have a lot to answer for.  But, to get back to the point, they seem to be much less prominent these days, which is why I was wondering whether they are still a thing.  Obviously, it could just be that the novelty of them has worn off as far as the wider media are concerned, so they just don't  discuss them as much, reducing their 'visibility' with the public.  Alternatively, I thought that maybe they were running out of cases to re-investigate.  Surely, by now, they must have done all the really 'glamourous' murder cases where they might hope to get a result and the public, as it turned out, just weren't interested in a ten part reassessment of the theft of Mrs Jones' push bike in Banbury in 1996 - was Jimmy from Number Thirty really the guilty culprit?  Was he unjustly fined £200 and given a police warning?  

The solution would seem to be obvious - theses podcasters need to start committing crimes themselves in order to provide subject matter for their shows.  Clearly, they'd have to be incredibly ingenious crimes so well planned and executed that the police could never solve them.  Either that, or they deliberately frame someone for them, ensuring there was sufficient manufactured evidence against them to ensure a conviction.  Then they could spend twenty six episodes unraveling the case to show that the conviction was unsafe.  If they were really good, then they would have a second fall guy lined up to be unmasked as the real culprit.  This second culprit should, ideally, be already dead, so that there is no chance of them pleading innocence and encouraging other true crime podcasters that they were the subject of a miscarriage of justice, thereby triggering yet another amateur investigation threatening the first bunch of podcasters.  Then again, rather than actually committing crimes, they could just make up sensational cases and 'solve' them.  I mean, as far as most listeners are concerned, they'd have no idea whether any of the shit on these podcasts is real.  Most probably wouldn't care, either.  Actually, it could be a whole new genre of podcasts: untrue crime.