YouTube channel

The Crime Desk

True crime and courts

In short

On YouTube, The Crime Desk has 230,000 subscribers and 729,064,610 views in all, as of November 11, 2026. In the last 7 days it gained 1,000 subscribers and 227,490 views. Its most watched video of the last 30 days is "Christa Pike – The MURDERER Who Survived TWO LETHAL Injections | The Casebook with Mollie Westbrook", with 6,385 views. By YouTube subscribers it is No. 4,415 of the 5,393 channels on Trari, and No. 52 of 59 in category "True crime and courts".

YouTube: The numbers today

subscribers

230,000

▲ 1,000 in the last 7 days
▲ 4,000 in the last 30 days

total views

729,064,610

▲ 227,490 in the last 7 days
▲ 949,921 in the last 30 days

views a day (current pace)

35,352

on a typical day: 31,874

Videos on the channel

2,429

1 uploaded in the last 7 days

Last upload

3 days ago

November 8, 2026

Views per subscriber

3,169

a new long video usually gets 4,420 views

Next milestone

250,000 subscribers

at the current pace: in about 150 days

Apple Podcasts: Podcasts

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YouTube: What happened lately

This week on the channel +221K views this week

Mollie Westbrook closes her Crime Desk Casebook with DeAngelo

Her final collaboration examines how genetic genealogy helped identify the Golden State Killer after decades without an arrest.

Channel: The Crime Desk · Story of November 10, 2026

This week on the channel +312K views this week

Mollie Westbrook revisits Aileen Wuornos for The Crime Desk

The Casebook episode shares a three-upload week with reports from Okinawa and Texas.

Channel: The Crime Desk · Story of October 11, 2026

The video drawing the most views now

Why Did It Take 30 YEARS To Catch The Golden State Killer? | The Casebook with Mollie Westbrook

Video published: November 8, 2026
Video views so far: 2,203
Video views, pace per day: 830
Views on its first day: 1,136

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YouTube: Position on Trari and in the category

	Among all channels on Trari	In the category True crime and courts
By subscribers	4,415 of 5,393	52 of 59
By views gained this week	4,050 of 5,274	52 of 59
By views gained in the last 30 days	3,996 of 5,043	52 of 58

The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.

The channel's share of the category: 0.1% of all views the category's channels gained this week
Subscriber growth this week: 0.4% on this channel, 0.0% on the category's middle channel

Subscribers in the category True crime and courts

20,000,000

13,200,000

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2,850,000

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2,610,000

1048 Hours

2,590,000

11COURT TV

2,510,000

12EWU Crime Storytime

2,400,000

13Ugo Lord: The Modern At…

2,260,000

14Real Crime

2,190,000

52The Crime Desk

230,000

Views gained this week in the category True crime and courts

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51,387,715

2Mike Rafi - Personal In…

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3Dr Insanity

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4Matthew Cox | Inside Tr…

25,667,340

5Law&Crime Network

19,528,099

648 Hours

15,760,110

7MrBallen

15,747,371

8Ugo Lord: The Modern At…

12,185,431

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8,316,747

10COURT TV

7,503,628

11Law&Crime Trials

5,386,378

12Kallmekris

5,319,992

13EWU Crime Storytime

5,111,524

14LegalEagle

4,385,636

52The Crime Desk

227,490

YouTube: Subscribers, last 30 days

October 13, 2026: 226,000 subscribers → November 11, 2026: 230,000 subscribers

YouTube: Total views, last 30 days

October 13, 2026: 728,131,027 views → November 11, 2026: 729,064,610 views · average: 32,192 views a day

YouTube: The channel's latest videos

The last 15 videos uploaded to the channel, with today's numbers. Click a video to play it here.

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views	Per day	First day	Likes	Comments
Why Did It Take 30 YEARS To Catch The Golden State Killer? …	November 8, 2026	9:49	2,203	830	1,136	47	5
The LINDSAY CLANCY Case: Was It Postpartum Psychosis or MUR…	November 2, 2026	10:12	4,308	110	2,026	45	12
The GIGGLING GRANDMA Who Secretly POISONED Her Own Family \|…	October 26, 2026	10:29	3,780	19	1,748	68	5
Christa Pike – The MURDERER Who Survived TWO LETHAL Injecti…	October 19, 2026	10:01	6,385	18	2,677	56	14
A Violent MURDER and a LONG wait for JUSTICE \| The Casebook…	October 12, 2026	10:18	5,061	6	-	82	4
A United States Marine accused of murdering a woman while s…	October 7, 2026	0:33 short	4,083	5	-	57	14
The mom of two accused of attacking her husband and young c…	October 7, 2026	0:26 short	2,276	4	-	33	2
What happened to turn Aileen Wuornos into a serial killer? …	October 5, 2026	10:43	5,404	6	-	75	9
What REALLY Happened During the Salem Witch Trials?	October 2, 2026	39:15	1,021	6	-	13	1
WATCH LIVE: Stakeout outside Lindsay Clancy hearing in Mass…	September 30, 2026	48:34	831	0	-	5	0
The Lindbergh Tragedy that Turned into America's First True…	September 28, 2026	11:08	4,532	3	-	84	5
Lizzie Borden: Did She Really Murder Her Father and Stepmot…	September 25, 2026	39:50	1,412	1	-	32	2
Lizzie Borden: The Unsolved Double Murder Mystery	September 21, 2026	12:05	5,755	4	-	94	16
They Thought He Was A Lost Hiker... They Were Wrong \| Burie…	September 18, 2026	31:22	772	0	-	11	1
Chris Watts: From PERFECT Husband To KILLER Next Door \| The…	September 14, 2026	8:41	5,520	6	-	91	6

Audience engagement

likes per 1,000 views: 14.9 in the category: 17.7
comments per 1,000 views: 1.8 in the category: 1.7
a video's usual first day on this channel: 2,033 views
short vs long: 2 short (up to 3 minutes), 13 long
average views per short video: 3,179
average views per long video: 3,614

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YouTube: Most watched Shorts

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Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

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