HOSTS - Tenderfoot TV

OUR HOSTS

There is no podcast without the host! We have been fortunate to work with so many great hosts over the years. They have helped navigate our listeners through the story and bring valuable perspective and understanding. From bestselling authors to acclaimed journalists, citizen sleuths to legal experts, seasoned podcasters to newcomers, our hosts are the heart and soul of our shows.

Payne Lindsey

Founder of TFTV, Payne hosts the award winning Up and Vanished, Atlanta Monster, and Radio Rental, a combined 400+ million downloads! He also hosts the hit series High Strange.

Meredith Stedman

Meredith is a writer and producer at Tenderfoot and is a big fan of the horror genre (even though she's scared of everything!). Her podcast Rattled & Shook is a variety show for all things creepy-adjacent and horror-lite.

Maggie Freleng

A Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist and host of the Wrongful Conviction podcast, Maggie brings her talents to Tenderfoot TV as host of Up and Vanished Weekly with Payne Lindsey.

Dennis Cooper

Host of the investigative true crime podcast Culpable, Dennis is a first time podcast host, but brought in big-time downloads with over 20 million!

Celisia Stanton

After falling victim to a financial scam in 2020, Celisia launched Truer Crime to explore true crime with more context and nuance. She also writes for Tenderfoot and loves her 3 cats dearly.

Liam Luxon

Liam Luxon’s true crime debut, Status: Untraced, spans 3 years, 4 counties, 2 continents, and over 200 hours of interviews—uncovering dark secrets, risky encounters, and untold truths.

Jodi Tovay

Jodi Tovay, a four-time Emmy® nominee, has 18+ years in true crime and documentary storytelling. Now Principal of Starwipe Productions, her creative path shifted after an inspiring, rain-soaked discovery at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland.

Susan Peters

Susan Peters is the host of Monster BTK and is a former news anchor. She worked for KAKE, the ABC affiliate in Wichita, Kansas from 1995 to 2016. She has won regional Emmy awards for her reporting in both California and Kansas.

Thrasher Banks

Thrasher Banks is an Ohio native and the creator, writer, and host of Lords of Death, an investigative podcast and personal journey that deep dives into several unsolved murders from Thrasher's hometown of Dayton, OH.

Todd McComas

Todd is a retired police detective turned touring standup comic. In 2017, he left law enforcement for radio and podcasting, bringing sharp wit and crime headlines to This Day in Crime—a true crime-meets-satire show for fans all week long.

Jake and Payne

Payne Lindsey collabs with award-winning podcaster, Jake Brennan, to host Dead and Gone. Jake also hosts his own show, the acclaimed Disgraceland on his Double Elvis network.

Mosi Secret

Mosi Secret is an award-winning independent journalist from Atlanta, now based in Brooklyn. A former reporter for The New York Times and ProPublica, Mosi brings his 18 years of investigative journalism and perspective as the host of Radical.

Alice Qannik Glenn

Alice is an Iñupiaq born and raised in Utqiaġvik, Alaska. She hosts/produces her own podcast show, Coffee & Quaq, as well as HBO’s True Detective: Night Country podcast.

Remi and Rich

Former Navy SEAL Remi Adeleke and Former Army Ranger Rich Choppa combine their decades of military experience as they team up to host Down Range. The first person accounts from our heroes in the United States Armed Forces.

Alex Estrada

Alex is a TV writer and California native, now based in Brooklyn. He is a story editor for Disney’s Hamster & Gretel, and hosts the true-crime limited series The Estate.

Simon Kent Fung

An award winning creator and designer in tech and media (Patreon, Google, TIME Magazine), Simon, a Toronto native, hosts the limited series Dear Alana.

Jessica Noll

Jessica is an award-winning journalist and the voice behind Undetermined, the breakout true crime series, and Back in Crime, where she reexamines some of history’s most compelling cases.

Cole Locascio

Cole is an award-winning producer and Atlanta native, making his hosting debut with Flashpoint. He’s produced Ambie-winning series for Tenderfoot TV and contributed to the Webby-winning MrBallen Podcast.

Alison and Shapearl

Shapear Wells, a mother and activist, and Alison Flowers, an award-winning investigative journalist, teamed up to host the award-winning investigative podcast Somebody, which covered the Chicago murder of Shapearl’s son Courtney Copeland.

Jon Street

Jon is part of the Resonate Recordings team as Chief Production Officer, and he is the host of the new Tenderfoot/Resonate collaborative podcast, Turned Podcaster.

Celeste Headlee

A 20-year veteran, Celeste Headlee (NPR, PBS, TEDx), is a journalist, author, public speaker, and radio veteran. She hosts the new true crime series Freeway Phantom.

Matt Graves

Matt Graves is a podcast producer and host of Le Monstre. A bi-lingual American, he moved to Belgium in the summer of 1995, in the midst of the chaos he covered in his podcast.

Rasha and Yvette

Co-hosts of the chart-topping 2019 podcast, Root of Evil, these sisters are back to host a new weekly crime series, Facing Evil. With inspiration from their mother’s incredible journey, Rasha Pecoraro and Yvette Gentile bring a unique perspective to true crime.

David Farrier

New Zealand journalist David Farrier hosts When a Good Man Kills, but he’s also an accomplished documentary filmmaker who created Dark Tourist and Tickled.

Josh Zeman

Known for his 2009 film Cropsey, Josh also directed Netflix’s The Son of Sam: A Descent into Darkness, and hosted the companion podcast. He’s also host of Monster: Hunting the Long Island Serial Killer.

Bill Klaber

Author of Shadow Play and The Rebellion of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell, and co-host of The RFK Tapes, Bill is the host of the Tenderfoot TV podcast The MLK Tapes.

Ben Kueberich

A podcast producer (Monster: The Zodiac Killer & DC Sniper) turned first time podcast host, Ben created and produced “Algorithm” from Tenderfoot TV and iHeart Radio.

Terri J. Vaughn

An NAACP Image Award winner, Terri stars as host Rose Cranberry in the Insecure (HBO) fiction podcast spinoff Looking for Latoya.

Rainn Wilson

Actor, writer, comedian, Rainn hosts the hybrid (unscripted/scripted) Radio Rental as his character Terry Carnation.

Tim Livingston

Sports journalist and first time podcaster, Tim is an LA native, and host of the Sports/Crime investigative series Whistleblower.

Jake Brennan

An award-winning podcaster, Jake is the host of Dead and Gone. He also hosts his own show with Amazon Music, the acclaimed Disgraceland.

Neil Strauss

Neil Strauss is a 10x bestselling author and journalist. He hosts the 2019 “AP Podcast of the Year,” To Live and Die in LA and To Die For, featured on Apple’s 2025 Summer Listens. He’s also known for his hit book The Game.

Philip Holloway

Phil is a former Georgia police officer, prosecutor and current defense attorney in Atlanta. He hosts the criminal justice podcast Sworn.

Rembert and Jewel

Atlanta natives Rembert Browne and Jewel Wicker—hosts of the political podcast Gaining Ground: The New Georgia—are acclaimed writers and journalists. Jewel amplifies Southern voices through national reporting, and Rembert once interviewed President Obama aboard Air Force One.