# The Casual Criminalist: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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As of 2026-11-06, The Casual Criminalist has 718,000 subscribers, 160,262,237 total views, and 530 videos. It ranks #105,328 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [The Casual Criminalist](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for The Casual Criminalist is “Thomas Randolph: The Black Widower”, a long-form video published Nov 5, 2026.
- These are The Casual Criminalist’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Feb 11, 2026 and Nov 5, 2026 (48 long-form videos).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 168,458. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “The Most Incompetent Murder Investigations in FBI History” (310,431 views, Aug 31, 2026). Least viewed: “Thomas Randolph: The Black Widower” (14,106 views, Nov 5, 2026).
- Median length: 1:23:14 for 48 long-form videos.
- In this sample, The Casual Criminalist’s consecutive uploads were a median of 5 days apart (shortest gap 2 days, longest 16 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Nov 6, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Thomas Randolph: The Black Widower](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/nhBSY1SvPCI/) | 2026-11-05 | Long-form | 14,106 | 1:15:17 | - |
| [5 Killers Who Thought They Got Away With the Perfect Murder](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/Cw-SleCtSFQ/) | 2026-10-31 | Long-form | 75,604 | 5:45:12 | - |
| [Donald Harvey: The Ohio Angel of Death](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/N1NXeEdzLEs/) | 2026-10-28 | Long-form | 140,146 | 1:09:08 | 1.03x |
| [Sherri Rasmussen: The Murder the LAPD Didn't Want to Solve](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/Dog06j3hHZk/) | 2026-10-23 | Long-form | 178,708 | 1:34:57 | 1.23x |
| [Mob Justice: When Akku Yadav's Abuse Victims Had Enough.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/71xZ1TPRW1I/) | 2026-10-19 | Long-form | 152,875 | 1:12:48 | 0.98x |
| [Sonia Exelby: She Paid a Stranger $4,000 to Kill Her](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/MHlsERQYzhY/) | 2026-10-15 | Long-form | 143,818 | 1:44:05 | 0.86x |
| [The Beltway Snipers: Washington's 3 Weeks of Pure Terror](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/9gBwA5vOJ_I/) | 2026-10-12 | Long-form | 245,818 | 1:23:55 | 1.38x |
| [Driven to Murder: Why Ellen Pakkies Killed Her Own Son](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/IPmNtga9iNs/) | 2026-10-09 | Long-form | 172,652 | 1:14:19 | 0.97x |
| [CasCrim Comp: Murder Cases That Became Sh\*tshows.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/uk-M64LhVc8/) | 2026-10-05 | Long-form | 60,631 | 10:21:33 | - |
| [The Turpin Family: The Couple Who Tortured Their Kids](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/dS9QK_WoeVg/) | 2026-10-02 | Long-form | 250,482 | 1:50:40 | 1.21x |
| [Unsolved: The Servant Girl Annihilator](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/6QXtvzISVlI/) | 2026-09-28 | Long-form | 155,994 | 1:19:21 | 0.83x |
| [Unsolved: The Yoghurt Shop Murders](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/81YZ0lbbxl0/) | 2026-09-24 | Long-form | 203,921 | 2:27:03 | 0.98x |
| [CasCrim Compilation: The Worst Dismembering Cases.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/ghHlmWKpMSY/) | 2026-09-21 | Long-form | 77,071 | 4:38:04 | - |
| [William Bonin: The Forgotten Serial Killer](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/MG1wH1_mrAs/) | 2026-09-18 | Long-form | 209,941 | 1:44:25 | 0.88x |
| ['Dirty John': She Married a Psychopath and Chose Him Over Her Kids](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/Q69cfZLYmO0/) | 2026-09-15 | Long-form | 256,081 | 2:14:51 | 1.08x |
| [The Murder of Rob and Michele Reiner](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/72I5yjopRdk/) | 2026-09-09 | Long-form | 258,919 | 1:31:52 | 1.22x |
| [Unsolved: How Did Natalie Wood Die?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/6o0JOZPzCoU/) | 2026-09-04 | Long-form | 128,493 | 1:18:50 | 0.68x |
| [The Most Incompetent Murder Investigations in FBI History](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/7PeiBuyUsZg/) | 2026-08-31 | Long-form | 310,431 | 2:19:17 | 1.65x |
| [The Murder of Selena, Queen of Tejano Music](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/X8Sd18IJ2PQ/) | 2026-08-26 | Long-form | 141,721 | 1:21:39 | 0.89x |
| [Marta del Castillo and Spain's Most Hated Killer](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/As_8KsfHIrM/) | 2026-08-21 | Long-form | 171,815 | 1:33:28 | 0.94x |
| [Michael Peterson: The Staircase Killer Who Went Free](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/sZAzPPw0qss/) | 2026-08-13 | Long-form | 219,815 | 1:30:32 | 1.1x |
| [The Neverending Death of Meredith Kercher](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/Y0pWFyI0PGc/) | 2026-08-11 | Long-form | 286,565 | 2:07:10 | 1.44x |
| [The Horrifying Story of Daniel LaPlante](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/_Z2Z5l7w2Xg/) | 2026-08-06 | Long-form | 306,794 | 1:35:18 | 1.7x |
| [Hell on Wheels: The Mackenzie Shirilla Case](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/s-mObAcE2zU/) | 2026-08-03 | Long-form | 205,711 | 1:29:36 | 1.14x |
| [Melvin David Rees: Jazz Musician, Predator, Murderer.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/X0IoiyVbeLY/) | 2026-07-27 | Long-form | 147,253 | 1:13:38 | 0.87x |
| [Unsolved: The Death of Rey Rivera](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/2861eypFGcE/) | 2026-07-23 | Long-form | 101,113 | 1:27:55 | 0.6x |
| [The Disappearance of Laci Peterson](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/Gp7tbJYdw8I/) | 2026-07-11 | Long-form | 130,604 | 1:40:47 | 0.78x |
| [The Brutal Murder of Sarah Everard (By a Policeman)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/HfiW6Wal_S8/) | 2026-07-07 | Long-form | 143,580 | 1:02:12 | 0.85x |
| [The Serial Killer Hiding in America's Most Beautiful Park](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/I7dcx8jc8N8/) | 2026-06-22 | Long-form | 193,361 | 46:30 | 1.15x |
| [Unsolved: The Atlanta Ripper](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/_JFriiB6mcY/) | 2026-06-11 | Long-form | 219,510 | 1:06:47 | 1.3x |
| [Rex Heuermann: The Gilgo Beach Killer](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/Z0XR7-pwjWM/) | 2026-06-03 | Long-form | 262,398 | 2:07:49 | 1.58x |
| [Unsolved: The Yuba County Five](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/NLt7ppACORw/) | 2026-05-29 | Long-form | 166,216 | 1:31:27 | 1x |
| [Kouri Richins Killed Her Husband and Wrote a Children's Book About It](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/Z1miiOUcdE0/) | 2026-05-23 | Long-form | 217,526 | 1:34:50 | 1.29x |
| [The Worst Serial Killer Fumbles by Police (Of All Time)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/dHHQhNGHSFQ/) | 2026-05-19 | Long-form | 170,699 | 1:17:30 | 1.08x |
| [Igor Komarov: the Bali Dismembering Case](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/A52kdj9iiAs/) | 2026-05-11 | Long-form | 165,873 | 1:11:18 | 1.12x |
| [Carl Tanzler: The Depraved Man Who Lived With a Corpse for 7 Years](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/hOesbR0Hg5c/) | 2026-05-06 | Long-form | 137,064 | 53:58 | 0.93x |
| [North Korea Has Been Stealing People for 50 Years...](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/wcmkyvw5D5M/) | 2026-05-01 | Long-form | 77,025 | 40:27 | - |
| [Sweden's Prime Minister Was Murdered, and Nobody Knows Who Did It.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/DMccNoKi8zw/) | 2026-04-20 | Long-form | 149,025 | 1:24:56 | 1x |
| [The Family Massacre That England Got Wrong](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/98ekRgAbiBc/) | 2026-04-15 | Long-form | 172,249 | 1:27:36 | 1.07x |
| [He Studied Crime So He Could Commit One: The Idaho College Murders](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/frTAUPEV4Rc/) | 2026-04-11 | Long-form | 189,506 | 35:11 | 1.17x |
| [Thomas Neill Cream: The Lambeth Poisoner](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/KIdx1hUuOUw/) | 2026-04-08 | Long-form | 111,093 | 35:26 | 0.68x |
| [The Mushroom Murders: When Erin Patterson Poisoned Her In-Laws with Beef Wellington](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/c9ihTuoYxsY/) | 2026-03-23 | Long-form | 240,416 | 1:22:33 | 1.39x |
| [Sherri Papini: The Woman Who (Allegedly) Faked Her Kidnapping](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/dEeUoX0TqrA/) | 2026-03-20 | Long-form | 105,857 | 1:07:13 | 0.61x |
| [Unsolved: The Boy in the Chimney](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/IDesfMxk8nc/) | 2026-03-15 | Long-form | 145,854 | 1:01:31 | 0.84x |
| [New Crimes (Allegedly) Revealed By the Epstein Files](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/c5wbAMsGNws/) | 2026-03-10 | Long-form | 297,476 | 1:06:48 | 1.61x |
| [Death in the Classroom: 3 Cases of Killer Students](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/w5kDjvOXmSc/) | 2026-02-26 | Long-form | 116,622 | 1:00:28 | 0.67x |
| [Unsolved: The Dupont de Ligonnès Family Murders](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/XCoO8AAkC2g/) | 2026-02-18 | Long-form | 150,344 | 1:13:52 | 0.85x |
| [He Lived Next Door to Every Victim...](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@thecasualcriminalist/videos/4YWKP-BplAQ/) | 2026-02-11 | Long-form | 175,131 | 44:35 | 0.98x |

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