True-Crime Podcaster Kaelyn Moore Signs With Netflix for 26-Episode Video Series ‘Last Trace’

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2026 — The true-crime podcast boom has a new front door, and it opens on Netflix. Producer Kaelyn Moore, the creator behind Heart Starts Pounding and Clues, has signed with Netflix to host Last Trace, a weekly video series that reexamines the clues left behind at crime scenes — and asks what the record missed the first time around.

The series premiered September 28, exclusively on Netflix, with a 26-episode order and new episodes landing every Monday. As Moore’s own site puts it: “Every case leaves something behind: a grainy frame, a timestamp, a witness who swears they saw something. Last Trace follows the record to the precise point where it goes cold, and asks what got missed the first time.”

What the show is

The format is built from fragments. Each episode pieces together CCTV footage, voicemails, texts, overlooked eyewitnesses, and other digital footprints to reconstruct the final moments before a disappearance or a killing — the traces people leave behind, assembled until they tell the whole story. TheWrap reports the series examines cases that made national headlines, and the premiere episode documents the 2019 murder investigation of Jennifer Dulos, who, like Moore, hails from Connecticut.

“On this show, we’re gonna discuss the last clues that were left behind in cases that truly keep me up at night,” Moore says in the pilot episode. “Oftentimes, we’ll look into what the camera shows, and also what it doesn’t.” Her tagline for the series: “If the footage exists, so does the truth.”

From the maternity ward to Netflix

Moore celebrated the premiere with a screening at The Sun Rose Hotel on the Sunset Strip, where she told the crowd that building the weekly series coincided with another major life event. “We got the offer from Netflix to make this show the day after I gave birth,” she said. “I was laying in the maternity ward on my laptop looking at the deal points, so I feel like I raised two babies this year: One of them is on Netflix, and one of them can’t even walk yet.” She also gave the small team its due: “Thank you to everyone who worked on the show, there’s so many people — well, actually, not really… it’s a very small team who worked a lot.”

The real behind-the-scenes story is the jump from self-publishing to a platform with standards, notes, and scale. Moore told What’s On Netflix that most of her work has been self-published, so the biggest adjustment has been the machinery around it: “There’s a lot of eyes on the scripts and there’s a lot of eyes on the cuts in a way that it’s just not when I’m making YouTube videos. It’s a challenge of learning how to put out a lot of content quickly on a weekly cadence while also making sure it’s up to an incredibly high standard.”

Who Kaelyn Moore is

In recent years Moore has become one of the biggest true-crime podcasters working: more than 2 million followers on TikTok, where she covers true-crime cases; the Heart Starts Pounding podcast on YouTube with over 500,000 subscribers; and co-host of the Clues channel. Her flagship podcast, Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries, has been running since 2022 with new episodes every Wednesday, and she’s since built Heart Starts Pounding into a media company with short-form channels and the horror audio drama The Timekeeper, starring Judah Lewis, Chandler Kinney, and Arjun Athalye.

Her origin story reads like a true-crime cold open. Moore grew up in a small New England town with a dark past — a serial killer her great-grandfather, a junior reporter at the local paper, helped catch. “You could say an obsession with digging into the dark side is in her blood,” her site says. She started in entertainment development at James Wan’s Atomic Monster — the company behind the Conjuring universe and Annabelle — then worked at Ace Entertainment on the reboot of Are You Afraid of the Dark?, before going independent with Heart Starts Pounding.

Netflix’s true-crime play

The move fits a bigger pattern. Netflix keeps deepening its true-crime bench — Russell Crowe’s Unabomber just claimed the platform’s No. 1 movie spot — and the podcast-to-video pipeline is the industry’s favorite way to mint new franchises. The weekly-Monday cadence is a bet that true-crime audiences will build a viewing habit the way they built listening ones: appointment viewing, one case a week, with the comment section doing the rest.

Moore, for her part, has told her existing audience not to worry. Announcing the Netflix deal to her Patreon supporters, she wrote: “I’m teaming up with Netflix to bring you Last Trace With Kaelyn Moore, a Netflix original true crime podcast!” — adding that Heart Starts Pounding isn’t going anywhere: “HSP will always be my baby and I will still be bringing you weekly episodes and all of the same Patreon content.” Two babies, one weekly cadence. So far, she’s feeding both.

For more on the stories Netflix is betting on, see our coverage of the Friday the 13th prequel series and the East of Eden limited series.