Three True-Crime Podcasts From iHeart: Betrayal Season Two Begins

 It's true crime all the time with new and returning podcasts from iHeart. True crime is a genre that podcasting has polished into a high sheen. Broadcast TV networks like the ID Channel love the lurid and overusing the word "evil" to hyperventilate their true-crime shows. Evil-In-Law and Very Scary People are just two examples of the true-crime genre in hyperdrive. 

Podcasting may also be fertile ground for true-crime shows, but, at least, they typically have more on their minds than scaring the bejesus out of you like TV.

With that preamble, iHeart Podcasts and Glass Podcasts, a division of award-winning Glass Entertainment Group, today announced the second season of the popular podcast series Betrayal. Additionally, the two companies have also signed a slate deal for new true-crime titles, including “Burden of Guilt” and “Last Seen on South Street.”

The story of a picture-perfect fairy tale marriage gone horribly wrong, the first season of Betrayal amassed more than eight million downloads to date since its release this past April. Following its enormous success, Betrayal is being adapted into a TV docuseries for a premium streamer. 

 Betrayal 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, many people are still recovering from its path of destruction. After 20 years apart, Jenifer Faison reconnected with her college sweetheart, Spencer Herron. He was a two-time Teacher of the Year. On June 1, 2018, Jenifer came home to find her door kicked in by the police, and her husband sitting on the couch saying, “It’s over.” 

He had sexually assaulted one of his students. In the days that followed Spencer’s arrest, Jenifer learned that her husband had been living a dark, secret life. He had more than 60 affairs during their seven years together. His actions shook a community, devastated his wife, and sent Spencer Herron to prison. Climbing out of the devastation would be a journey Jenifer could never have imagined.

Premiering in the first half of 2023, host Andrea Gunning returns for Season Two of Betrayal, which will focus on a mother’s fight to find justice for her daughter and protection from a predator too close to home. Ashley Lytton was a typical suburban Utah wife and mom of three until she discovered her husband’s horrifying secret. It was a shocking crime that would alter her life and jeopardize the safety of her children.

The new true-crime podcasts from iHeart and Glass Podcasts include Burden of Guilt, a harrowing story of a woman who has spent the last four decades of her life at the center of one of the most bizarre and disturbing criminal cases in American history. She grew up believing that she was responsible for the brutal death of her infant brother, only later did she discover that she had been framed for his murder by her own parents. One of them was the real killer. This series will follow her as she fights for justice in the name of her baby brother.

Last Seen on South Street, is a serialized investigative podcast that examines the case of a couple from Philadelphia who went missing nearly two decades ago. Unlike most cases, there is not a single piece of physical evidence connected to the crime. The FBI believes it is a case of foul play. With unprecedented access with law enforcement, the podcast team will attempt to find out what really happened on South Street that fateful night.

Put on your amateur sleuth earbuds and listen to these true-crime podcasts. After all, with a teen in Kansas City, Mo, being shot for knocking on the wrong door, and people being shot at for pulling into the wrong driveway, true-crime is a welcome distraction from real life.