Update 12-12-2024: Not sure what’s going on here but these commercials have been too much. It’s still a great show as my original rating says BUT recently there’s 6 minutes of commercials before the show starts, then many commercial breaks 3-5 minutes long, so a 40 minute episode only has about 15 minutes of podcast and the rest are absolutely terrible ads. It pains me because I cannot stand that many ads but it will keep me from enjoying this great show unfortunately. Host of this show does diligent research, is very well spoken, highly organized presentation, and gives the facts before adding her insight. Her episodes are compact yet rich in details as her “flow” presenting the information of each case is top tier. Thank you Savannah for making my workdays go by much better.

First 12 minutes of a pod cast promoting her Patreon channel. Time to unfollow.

I have been listening to Savanah Bemer for years now and has grown extremely frustrated with the amount of ads that are in her 30 minute videos. I understand that they have to make their money and I can pay money to have ad free but I think that if I’m going to continue to be a listener who doesn’t wanna pay yet another subscription videos that are 30 minutes long she’ll only be able to have one to two ads in them, not 6+

Absolutely loved Savanah when she was just posting on youtube! but once she started the podcast, it’s like she’s money hungry and not really taking any consideration of her listeners. having 5 minutes of ads before AND after the podcast is absolutely bonkers.. along with the other 10-15 minutes of ads within the 40 minute episode.. would love to continue listening, but the ads are just becoming too much and too repetitive.

5 minutes of ads before your show even starts? Come on, this is an abomination. Even if this show was bigger, it would still be ridiculous to have that many ads before you even get to the content of the episode. Maybe this is part of why your show isn’t that popular?

The amount of adverts is getting worse and worse per content. Not worth it.

Really like this podcast but the host uses the word “however” way too much, it’s annoying. Other than that, this is a good podcast!

Extremely hard to stay interested in the whole episode. The words “ultimately” and “however” are incorrectly used a lot and almost every other word. It makes me cringe and honestly really frustrated. The stories could be done so much better. I keep listening to this because I like your voice and it helps me fall asleep. Also there are so many errors. I’m sorry I think you are a wonderful person spreading awareness of the victims, but please take note of the feedback we are trying to give to you. You always say you want our opinions and want to know how you can improve and we have all given really good feedback that is never listened to. I really enjoy your stories on Snapchat, though! You excel on those. :)

I like the podcast, but the ads are out of control. It’s almost to the point I don’t want to listen because of all the ads.

“Quote, unquote” drives me nuts! Can the host of the show just paraphrase the comments instead of quoting the comment verbatim? Please?

I listened for about two minutes. That’s about all I could take.

I love the ideas of monthly themes. It would be nice to get stories that’s not told on a lot of platforms. I think next month should be killer roommates !

I seriously don’t mean this as a backhanded compliment: Savannah’s voice is so pleasant, her vocal fry sounds endearing and comforting, like a purring cat — and I love cats!

Good job, Savannah. But your recent stories have been some that we have heard many times on other podcasts. Please find some new stories.

i prefer watching the youtube version but i’ve been watching/listening for a few years now and it’s so good!

I watched a few YouTube videos of this podcast. It isn’t good. Savannah basically just reads the information about the case and shows some photos on YouTube. It’s boring and repetitive. It lacks the features of good investigative journalism you’ll find in typical true crime podcasts. It appears she does no editing either.

I enjoy Killer Instinct over other true crime podcasts because Savannah takes the time to give background on the victims if the background information exists. This makes the victims enjoy a sense of humanity as real people unlike other podcasts who gloss over that and cut right to the crime. You can tell Savannah works really hard in producing the episodes and I appreciate her work ethic. Keep it up Savannah.

Pretty good but definitely doesn’t proof some things like saying the details are “disclosed” when she means to say “undisclosed” lol among other examples

Updated 1/1/24: I think I’m pretty much over this podcast. It’s very average and the host seems like she’s just reading from my script alone in a room. Original review: And I literally had to check if this was on double speed. This is not a speed reading competition! Repeated phases, too, will give this one more shot then I’m out.

Savannah I’ve been watching you on YouTube since the beginning basically and I still love watching/listening to you! I feel like I know you and we’re going over these cases together, you’re the best!!

i really use to enjoy watching Savannah’s Youtube videos but I like listening to the podcast when driving. I think she should read the reviews and invest in an editor. The repetition of sentences can be extremely annoying once you pick up on it.

I enjoy listening to your podcast. Thank you and keep it up!

This show needs an editor! Not only is the grammar atrocious, the host repeats herself so much it was like nails on a chalkboard. I tried…just couldn’t listen to an entire episode.

I like the story telling but the repeating of every sentence makes it hard to listen to sometimes

Flat reading of Wikipedia facts plus the vocal fry.

Kinda ruins it

There were so many editing mistakes on the Tanya kache episode

This hostess goes the extra mile to bring us into the story. I love that she actually looks up words that aren't normally used in our common lexicon and explains the meaning. She doesn't pretend to know everything like other podcasters. Thank you. Your casts are easily listened to.

I like this podcast however she repeats herself, a lot. She says the same thing after saying it already. Like she says something and right after she will repeat it again, either the same sentence or she’ll just phrase it different. Could be something to do with editing, I’m not sure.

I started listening for about a few months and I would listen EVERY SINGLE DAY , EPISODE AFTER EPISODE and let me tell you, I love this podcast! I listen to it while im working and it just keeps me on my toes. I love hearing about true crimes and Savannah(the host) goes so well in depth in every episode. There are ADS but I just skip them and continue on. I actually started listening to this podcast because It was an ad on another podcast that I listen to called “InTALKxicated” by Kelsi Davis!

The ads aren’t worth the bad podcast. Flop!

I watched her on yt and when I discovered that murder stuff helps me sleep I decided to try her podcast so I can be able to turn off my phone while listening. People are so picky. I would give Savannah 100 star review if I could. I’ve listened to all her podcasts and even replay them.

Great story teller

Would give it five stars but for the excessive Ads.

I love listening to your voice. It’s smooth and flowing. I kind of feel like you could add a few more details to go a touch more in depth and until today when I was listening to some prior podcasts I had been really impressed with this podcast. But today you expressed an opinion and insinuated that everyone should feel the way you do about it. To make it worse it was an opinion not at all relevant to a true crime podcast.

I feel like the host is incredibly judgemental. She’s too straight to the point. There’s no actual story. She repeats sentences too much. She has good cases but doesn’t do well on them. This is literally a back up podcast to me at this point.

Savannah is really good at this! One of my favorite things is, unlike the majority of podcasts, she gets right into it. You don’t have to listen to 8 mins worth of b/s before getting to why you started listening in the first place.

I love listening to savannah but it definitely gets to me that she constantly uses the word “however”. At this point I legit just know when she is going to say it lol. I wish this podcast had the “Played” and “Unplayed” section bc scrolling all the way through over 200 podcast to find ones that I haven’t listen to yet is brutal lol

Ads are ridiculous. No other podcast i listen to has that many ads. if i thought the podcast was good maybe i’d sit through them in support but…no. can’t stand the way she talks and episodes are short and can tell not much effort put into it. don’t waste your time here and go support Kendall Rae instead.

If you're in the mood to listen to cases with just the facts and very little additional commentary, this is a great podcast. Even though she doesn't add a ton of her own thoughts, it is still interesting to listen to.

Weird that I’m getting ads when I’ve paid for the subscription for a year???

Love how she gets straight to the point! Her YouTube channel is 🔥 also so happy I found this 💙💙

A true mental case, family connected, knew the unusual detail that the closet light in the little girl’s room was on. HELLO

I listen to strictly true crime podcasts-just what my interest is. I tried this one today after hearing it advertised. It’s really rushed, fast talking, lots of run on type sentences etc. It has a bit of an unprofessional vibe to me. Having said all of this, I didn’t make it through the first episode. It could get better.

Good story telling but literally half of the episodes are advertising

One voice nonstop is very irritating. The subject matter is good, but I can’t take just one voice on and on I’m out of here

Love this podcast, listen to it every day at work!! Just started from the very first one you put on ! Been listening since YouTube 🫶🏽 love love it!!!

While the selection is good the show really needs a better production team if it even has one. Savannah should check the pronunciation of words before she reads the script and try to keep a cadence. It’s just distracting and I had to stop listening after a while.

I get this is your job, but I use to listen regularly and I constantly have to skip thru the ads. At this point it’s like trying to listen to a tv and it’s frustrating.

I love Savannah!! I love this podcast! I listen to alot of podcasts, have for about 12 years! I just can’t believe I didn’t find this podcast until now.! I am binging don’t know what I will do when I have to wait each week for a new episode! Please keep them coming and don’t change a thing!! Thank you and everyone involed with getting this out there! When I found it I instantly became a Patreon!! Love it and y’all. Thanks again! Mommaa Hippie