‘Anatomy of Murder’ Duo, After Acrimonious Split With Audiochuck, Are Back With New True-Crime Podcast ‘Homicide 360’: ‘It’s Important for Us to Own the Thing We Create’
Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger ended their hit true-crime podcast “Anatomy of Murder” at the end of 2025 — and there was some bad blood. They severed ties with their previous partner Audiochuck (producer of “Crime Junkie” and other shows) and sued the company, alleging Audiochuck stiffed them out of millions of dollars.
Now they’re back in the game with their independently produced “Homicide 360,” a weekly podcast set to premiere Tuesday, May 26.
How is it different from “Anatomy of Murder”? Well, to hear them say it, “Homicide 360” is a lot like what fans of their previous show were drawn to: It’s focused on telling stories of murder victims through interviews with the victims’ families, investigators and prosecutors, backed by their years of experience in this world — Nicolazzi’s as a New York City homicide prosecutor and Weinberger’s background in law enforcement and investigative journalism.
“The reason people are excited we’re back is that the conversation is the same for us,” Weinberger says in an interview with Variety. “It’s telling these stories in the same tried-and-true way we’ve done for years.” The tagline for “Homicide 360” is “Every Angle, Every Life,” he adds: “It’s taking a 360-degree view of a homicide investigation, keeping the victim at the center of the story.”
“We’ve sat with literally thousands of families over the years,” Nicolazzi says. “When you talk about true crime, for us this has been our work, always… It’s important for us to take a step back to measure the impact of [each murder case]. Our approach to storytelling is really victim-forward.”
For “Homicide 360,” they also enlisted the same composer of the “Anatomy of Murder” theme, Trey Anderson, to write new music for the show.
What is new, Nicolazzi says, is the challenge of trying to rebuild their podcast audience — which she conceded was a bit “anxiety producing.”
“We had an amazing launch from Audiochuck in the beginning,” Nicolazzi says. “They helped our listeners get their ears on the podcast in the beginning. Now it’s just us.” Soon after launching in October 2020, “Anatomy of Murder” regularly placed in the top 10 on the U.S. podcast charts. The duo produced more than 250 episodes of “Anatomy of Murder,” which had a total of more than 200 million downloads.
“We decided pre-lawsuit that it’s important for us to own the thing we create and that we would be going independent,” Nicolazzi says. “We’re going into new waters.”Each episode of “Homicide 360” will run around 50 minutes, and the co-hosts have more than dozen already completed. They’re working with several of the same production team members from “Anatomy of Murder”: “We wanted the consistency of the team we’ve worked with,” says Nicolazzi.
They are producing “Homicide 360” through their companies (Nicolazzi’s Forseti Media and Weinberger’s Weinberger Media) and have teamed with Daylight Media for ad sales and distribution. The podcast will be widely available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Amazon Music and other audio platforms.
Weinberger sums up why he believes his longstanding partnership with Nicolazzi works with one word: chemistry.
“We were friends way before we thought of doing a podcast together,” he says. “We had a common interest in giving respect to the cases that they deserve.” To Nicolazzi, if families of the victims of the crimes they investigate “walk away saying, ‘They did justice to that story,’ there is no better approval.”
So do they have a good cop-bad cop thing going on? Not really, they say. However, they once polled their fans to see if listeners thought so — and, Weinberger says, “I was the good cop in our poll!”
In their lawsuit against Audiochuck, Nicolazzi and Weinberger allege Audiochuck breached its contract by failing to pay them their “rightful share of Defendant’s exclusive advertising revenue deal with SiriusXM, an amount equating to millions of dollars.” Originally filed in federal district court in New York, it was removed from that jurisdiction and refiled in New York State court in February 2026 following Audiochuck’s disclosure that UTA is an investor in Audiochuck. Because UTA has a New York office, the case’s proper venue became New York State.
After Nicolazzi and Weinberger filed their original lawsuit, an Audiochuck spokesperson said in a statement to Variety: “We vigorously refute the claims made by the plaintiffs in the filing. We will defend ourselves in court. Beyond that, we do not comment on ongoing legal disputes.”
Nicolazzi and Weinberger are not discussing the particulars of their litigation against Audiochuck. “We are of the mind that most of that has to stay in court,” Nicolazzi said. The case is expected to enter the discovery phase this summer.
Listen to the “Homicide 360” trailer:
Now they’re back in the game with their independently produced “Homicide 360,” a weekly podcast set to premiere Tuesday, May 26.
How is it different from “Anatomy of Murder”? Well, to hear them say it, “Homicide 360” is a lot like what fans of their previous show were drawn to: It’s focused on telling stories of murder victims through interviews with the victims’ families, investigators and prosecutors, backed by their years of experience in this world — Nicolazzi’s as a New York City homicide prosecutor and Weinberger’s background in law enforcement and investigative journalism.
“The reason people are excited we’re back is that the conversation is the same for us,” Weinberger says in an interview with Variety. “It’s telling these stories in the same tried-and-true way we’ve done for years.” The tagline for “Homicide 360” is “Every Angle, Every Life,” he adds: “It’s taking a 360-degree view of a homicide investigation, keeping the victim at the center of the story.”
“We’ve sat with literally thousands of families over the years,” Nicolazzi says. “When you talk about true crime, for us this has been our work, always… It’s important for us to take a step back to measure the impact of [each murder case]. Our approach to storytelling is really victim-forward.”
For “Homicide 360,” they also enlisted the same composer of the “Anatomy of Murder” theme, Trey Anderson, to write new music for the show.
What is new, Nicolazzi says, is the challenge of trying to rebuild their podcast audience — which she conceded was a bit “anxiety producing.”
“We had an amazing launch from Audiochuck in the beginning,” Nicolazzi says. “They helped our listeners get their ears on the podcast in the beginning. Now it’s just us.” Soon after launching in October 2020, “Anatomy of Murder” regularly placed in the top 10 on the U.S. podcast charts. The duo produced more than 250 episodes of “Anatomy of Murder,” which had a total of more than 200 million downloads.
“We decided pre-lawsuit that it’s important for us to own the thing we create and that we would be going independent,” Nicolazzi says. “We’re going into new waters.”Each episode of “Homicide 360” will run around 50 minutes, and the co-hosts have more than dozen already completed. They’re working with several of the same production team members from “Anatomy of Murder”: “We wanted the consistency of the team we’ve worked with,” says Nicolazzi.
They are producing “Homicide 360” through their companies (Nicolazzi’s Forseti Media and Weinberger’s Weinberger Media) and have teamed with Daylight Media for ad sales and distribution. The podcast will be widely available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Amazon Music and other audio platforms.
Weinberger sums up why he believes his longstanding partnership with Nicolazzi works with one word: chemistry.
“We were friends way before we thought of doing a podcast together,” he says. “We had a common interest in giving respect to the cases that they deserve.” To Nicolazzi, if families of the victims of the crimes they investigate “walk away saying, ‘They did justice to that story,’ there is no better approval.”
So do they have a good cop-bad cop thing going on? Not really, they say. However, they once polled their fans to see if listeners thought so — and, Weinberger says, “I was the good cop in our poll!”
In their lawsuit against Audiochuck, Nicolazzi and Weinberger allege Audiochuck breached its contract by failing to pay them their “rightful share of Defendant’s exclusive advertising revenue deal with SiriusXM, an amount equating to millions of dollars.” Originally filed in federal district court in New York, it was removed from that jurisdiction and refiled in New York State court in February 2026 following Audiochuck’s disclosure that UTA is an investor in Audiochuck. Because UTA has a New York office, the case’s proper venue became New York State.
After Nicolazzi and Weinberger filed their original lawsuit, an Audiochuck spokesperson said in a statement to Variety: “We vigorously refute the claims made by the plaintiffs in the filing. We will defend ourselves in court. Beyond that, we do not comment on ongoing legal disputes.”
Nicolazzi and Weinberger are not discussing the particulars of their litigation against Audiochuck. “We are of the mind that most of that has to stay in court,” Nicolazzi said. The case is expected to enter the discovery phase this summer.
Listen to the “Homicide 360” trailer: