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24 alternatives to Criminal - 41: Open Case

A couple of accountants try to solve a 1965 murder

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Criminal - 41: Open Case launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Reply All - 65: On the Inside, Part II▲60

   "A murder he claims that he didn't commit"

   2016 · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Reply All - 66: On The Inside, Part III▲70

   The one person who witnessed the murder

   2016 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   This American Life - Anatomy of Doubt▲60

   Two crimes: one with shoddy police work, the other, stellar

   2016 · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Voice driven murder mystery, Interview AI suspects with your voice▲215

   Hey HN! I'm excited to show off this really fun project I put together. I originally built this project 2-3 years ago, AI was already booming at the time, however voice AI agents were still very early. I loved my proof of concept at the time, but wasn't quite happy with it. I recently had the desire to check out the tech again, and know many of you will be interested. Interviews are speech to speech with OpenAI's gpt-realtime-2.1 over WebRTC. This model is... expensive, and because of that, I have to add some amount of restrictions, conversations are tied to a authenticated Clerk user id. I…

   Aug 2026 · whodunnitai.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Criminal - 42: The Finger▲55

   Giving each other "the finger"

   2016 · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Another Case Solved▲66

   The police work overtime fighting the big criminals!

   2016 · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Bench▲74

   A new kind of accountant

   2013 · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Criminal - It Looked Like Fire▲67

   An episode about a famous photograph

   2016 · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Crimetown #5: The Art of the Deal▲61

   What does Buddy do? He picks a fight

   2016 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Making a Murderer - Behind the scenes of the new Netflix documentary▲130

    A true crime story more interesting than Serial

    2016 · its alternatives →

11. 11HR
    Hacking recruiting - Coder's Coffee▲180

    2012 · coderscoffee.com · its alternatives →

12. 12AC
    a conspiracy theory generator▲181

    2013 · verifiedfacts.org · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Infinite Lives▲61

    A serial killer and a policeman lay traps for each other!

    2016 · its alternatives →

14. 14FA
    Find a co-hacker for your project▲149

    2018 · projectboard.xyz · its alternatives →

15. 15TP
    The Program – A fictional podcast inspired by Hacker News stories▲162

    2018 · programaudioseries.com · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Memory Man▲55

    A man w perfect memory must solve his family's murder

    2015 · its alternatives →

17. 17FH
    Freelance Hacker Network▲83

    2012 · hackerlist.net · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Hidden Brain - Broken Windows▲76

    How a theory of crime policing was born & what went wrong

    2016 · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Criminal Podcast▲115

    Real stories behind unbelievable crimes

    2015 · its alternatives →

20. 20OA
    OpenHacker, a weekly competition for hackers▲27

    2013 · openhacker.co · its alternatives →

21. 21
    My Favorite Murder: Squad Gourds▲52

    The "My Way" killings in the Phillipines

    2016 · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Serial - S01 Update: Day 02, Adnan Syed’s Hearing▲80

    Day 2 of Syed's hearing - intro to cell tower data

    2016 · its alternatives →

23. 23
    SELLsecure Scams investigator▲78

    Check who is behind an email and detect fraud

    2017 · its alternatives →

24. 24
    The Adventure Zone: The Eleventh Hour - Chapter Six▲68

    Time for a bank heist.

    2016 · its alternatives →

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