Nominations Announced For 2025 Clue Awards
The nominations have been announced for this year’s Clue Awards, an annual celebration of true crime programming across media. Held each year since 2017, the event aims to recognize “excellence and responsible storytelling” in coverage of true crime throughout a wide range of formats, including film, TV, podcasts, and publishing.
This year’s ceremony will be hosted by the hip-hop legend and star of Law & Order: SVU, Ice-T. Also presenting on stage will be the CSI franchise creator Anthony E. Zuiker, ABC News’ John Quiñones, Dr. Ann Burgess, and Matt Murphy. Meanwhile, the Crimefighter of the Year award will be presented by last year’s winner, John Walsh.
A separate award for America’s Greatest Detective, which honors real-life law enforcement professionals, has as its finalists Sergeant Julissa Trapp of Anaheim, who worked on the case of serial killer Steven Dean Gordon, Jeffrey Babauta, who investigated underground alligator poaching, and Sergeant Matthew Vartanian and Detective Andrew Houghton, whose work on a cold case inspired the true crime podcast Someone Knows Something.
The event is to take place on Wednesday, September 6, 2025, as part of CrimeCon 2025: Denver. A list of the nominations can be found below.
TV: Outstanding Docuseries
American Murder: Gabby Petito
Hey Beautiful: Anatomy of a Romance Scam
Betrayal: A Father’s Secret
Beauty Queen Killer
Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer
TV: Outstanding Episodic Series
Hostage Rescue
PD True
Crime Beat TV
Killer Cases
Prosecuting Evil With Kelly Siegler
TV: Outstanding Scripted Series
Long Bright River
Godfather of Harlem
Not My Family: The Monique Smith Story
Podcast: Outstanding Docuseries
True Crime News Presents: American Hustlers
In Esto Podcast with N Leigh Hunt
Up and Vanished
Who Killed Jennifer Judd?
San Miguel Kidnappings
Podcast: Outstanding Episodic Series
Courtroom Confidential
True Crime News: The Podcast
Crime Fix with Angenette Levy
Dead Sleep: True Crime for Bedtime
Betrayal: Weekly
Outstanding Documentary Film
The Menendez Brothers
Serial Killer Capital: Los Angeles
Left for Dead
The Girl Who Looked Like Me
Sins of the Parents: The Crumbley Trials
Publication: Book of the Year
My Time to Stand, by Gypsy-Rose Blanchard, Michele Matrisciani, and Melissa Moore
The Scientist and the Serial Killer, by Lise Olsen
The Atlas of Art Crime: Thefts, Vandalism, and Forgeries, by Laura Evans, PhD
The Impostor Heiress: Cassie Chadwick, the Greatest Grifter of the Gilded Age, by Annie Reed
Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr. Crippen, by Hallie Rubenhold
The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant LA, by Jesse Katz
