True Crime Central YouTube Stats

@truecrimecentral · True Crime & Mysteries · Updated Nov 6, 2026

True Crime Central channel overview

True Crime Central (@truecrimecentral) is a YouTube channel in the True Crime & Mysteries niche created in 2015. It has 1.5M subscribers and 194M total views across 1.1K videos, an average of 174K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 28K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 43K views. Over the last 12 months, True Crime Central published 76 videos (42% Shorts), and 10 of them (13%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

Subscriber growth

Over the last 20 days, True Crime Central gained 10K subscribers and 3M views, about 150K views a day.

How much does True Crime Central make?

Returbe estimates True Crime Central's YouTube ad revenue at $18K – $55K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $2.97 to $8.91, typically $4.95, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $5K.

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Upload schedule

True Crime Central publishes about 57.6 videos a month. Based on its last 78 uploads, its most common upload day is Wednesday (17% of uploads), usually around 10:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

True Crime Central's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are True Crime Central's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• Every Identifying feature of her was removed - except one | The Horrific Murder of Rebecca Koster3.7M views · Jun 25, 202521.5× typical views
• Stolen Luxury Cars Hidden in Containers Bound for Africa | Seized at Sea541K views · Oct 12, 202612.7× typical views
• Marine Agents Face an Armed Mystery Ship Near US Territory | Seized at Sea383K views · Sep 28, 20269× typical views
• She Chose Her Husband Over Her Family. Months Later, She Was Dead | A Secret to Die For255K views · Oct 21, 20266× typical views
• The Cheerleader Who Snuck Out and Never Came Home | Homicide: Hours To Kill197K views · Oct 8, 20264.6× typical views
• Double Date Ends in Double Murder | Homicide: Hours To Kill180K views · Aug 27, 20264.2× typical views
• A Mother Murdered in Her Dream Home, Months Before Her Wedding | Homicide: Hours To Kill156K views · Oct 22, 20263.7× typical views
• The Beloved TV Pastor Who Was Hiding a Dark Past | A Secret to Die For156K views · Oct 14, 20263.7× typical views

Latest videos

2 of True Crime Central's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• The Moment I Stopped Stealing #theglitch573 views · Nov 6, 20260.1× typical views
• She Met Him On A Dating App. Weeks Later, He Stabbed Her 33 Times | A Killer's Mistake17K views · Nov 5, 20260.4× typical views
• She Was Shot Four Times In The Face: The Murder of Theresa Burns | Homicide: Hours To Kill57K views · Nov 4, 20261.3× typical views
• A Wealthy Family's Secrets Surface After A Gruesome Double Murder | A Secret to Die For30K views · Nov 4, 20260.7× typical views
• Stolen Money Private Island Getaway #theglitch1.2K views · Nov 4, 20260.2× typical views
• The 17-Year-Old Facing Life For A Murder Nobody Saw Him Commit | Barristers6.1K views · Nov 3, 20260.1× typical views
• Border Agents Find Cocaine Packages Hidden Inside A Pickup Truck! | BorderForce USA39K views · Nov 2, 20260.9× typical views
• You Never Know When S.W.A.T Comes Knocking #theglitch1.5K views · Nov 2, 20260.3× typical views
• Three Cops Killed In Five Days And An Innocent Man Takes The Blame | I Didn't Do It34K views · Nov 1, 20260.8× typical views
• How to Date 10 Women at Once #theglitch1.6K views · Nov 1, 20260.3× typical views

The True Crime & Mysteries niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 5.1K videos from 500 channels in this niche. 8.2% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 21K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $9.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Crime 360 (241K subs, best video 17.9×), Criminally Obsessed (247K subs, best video 36.9×), Frontline Crime (78K subs, best video 25.2×), Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski: True Crime Today (399K subs, best video 8.4×), Queens of Crime - Female True Crime Stories (25K subs, best video 39.3×), Shezi Vlogs (270K subs, best video 63.9×).

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Frequently asked questions

Data from Returbe's index of YouTube channels, collected from public YouTube data. Earnings are estimates from views and RPM benchmarks, not figures from the channel. Returbe is not affiliated with True Crime Central or YouTube.