The Rest Is Crime is a true crime and history podcast about the murders, conspiracies, and betrayals history usually leaves out.

History remembers victories, emperors, and turning points. This podcast focuses on everything else—the crimes, cover-ups, scandals, and acts of violence that quietly shaped civilizations.

Each episode uncovers a real case from ancient history, telling the full story behind historical murders, political assassinations, poison plots, court conspiracies, and betrayals from Greece, Rome, Egypt, Persia, China, and beyond. These are not legends or rumors—they are documented crimes preserved in trials, chronicles, and eyewitness accounts.

Through narrative storytelling and historical sources, the show explores ancient true crime, power and violence, early justice systems, and the hidden human motives behind history’s darkest acts: ambition, jealousy, fear, revenge, and the hunger for control.

This isn’t a heroic history show or a list of famous battles. It’s a deep, story-driven exploration of true crime in ancient history, revealing how murder, secrecy, and betrayal often mattered more than treaties and speeches.

If you’re fascinated by true crime, ancient history, murders in history, assassinations, poisoners, court intrigue, political crime, and the dark foundations of civilization—this podcast is for you.

The Rest Is Crime History tells the highlights. The rest is murder.