Truly Criminal YouTube Stats

@trulycriminal · True Crime & Mysteries · Updated Nov 13, 2026

Truly Criminal channel overview

Truly Criminal (@trulycriminal) is a YouTube channel in the True Crime & Mysteries niche created in 2019. It has 951K subscribers and 233M total views across 314 videos, an average of 741K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 293K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 258K views. Over the last 12 months, Truly Criminal published 30 videos, and 0 of them (0%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does Truly Criminal make?

Returbe estimates Truly Criminal's YouTube ad revenue at $15K – $46K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3 to $9, typically $5, 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

Truly Criminal publishes about 5.4 videos a month. Based on its last 30 uploads, its most common upload day is Tuesday (17% of uploads), usually around 23:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 7, 2026.

Truly Criminal's best outlier videos

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

• A 10 Minute Walk: The Frightening Case Of Sabina Nessa522K views · Sep 8, 20262× typical views
• Every Parents Nightmare: The Abduction And Murder Of Riley Fox483K views · Jul 10, 20261.9× typical views
• A Deadly Trap: The Murder Of Seath Tyler Jackson439K views · Sep 8, 20261.7× typical views
• Taken in Plain Sight: The Case Of Tori Stafford408K views · Sep 8, 20261.6× typical views
• The Story That Fell Apart: The Unravelling Of Kouri Richins404K views · Jun 10, 20261.6× typical views
• A Killer in Plain Sight: The 20-Year Hunt for Emma Caldwell's Murderer400K views · May 11, 20261.6× typical views
• Camera To Conviction: The Case Of Maya Millete385K views · Nov 7, 20261.5× typical views
• Murdered At Work: The Case Of Michelle Mockbee385K views · Oct 8, 20261.5× typical views

Latest videos

8 of Truly Criminal's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Camera To Conviction: The Case Of Maya Millete385K views · Nov 7, 20261.5× typical views
• Halloween Horror: The Liske Family Murders293K views · Oct 31, 20261.1× typical views
• Napa Valley Nightmare: Double Murder On Halloween193K views · Oct 30, 20260.7× typical views
• Closing The Net: The Heinous Murder Of Ebony Simpson272K views · Oct 24, 20261.1× typical views
• Behind the Screen | Hunting The Craigslist Killer217K views · Oct 17, 20260.8× typical views
• Ambushed: The Disturbing Case Of Don Fluitt277K views · Oct 10, 20261.1× typical views
• Shot In The Snow: The Murder Of Kevin Jiang302K views · Oct 8, 20261.2× typical views
• Murdered At Work: The Case Of Michelle Mockbee385K views · Oct 8, 20261.5× typical views
• The Halderson Murders367K views · Oct 8, 20261.4× typical views
• In The Line Of Duty: The Murder Of Matt Ratana337K views · Oct 8, 20261.3× typical views

The True Crime & Mysteries niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 9K videos from 1K channels in this niche. 11% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 17K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $9.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski: True Crime Today (404K subs, best video 17.8×), FOX 29 Philadelphia (432K subs, best video 82.5×), Criminally Obsessed (248K subs, best video 11.3×), Crime 360 (243K subs, best video 11.1×), Mafia Secrets (5K subs, best video 23.1×), Frontline Crime (79K subs, best video 24.4×).

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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 Truly Criminal or YouTube.