A Very Fatal Murder is a podcast produced by the satirical publication The Onion.

[1] A parody of true crime podcasts, A Very Fatal Murder is hosted by fictional New York City reporter David Pascall, who travels to the small town Bluff Springs, Nebraska to investigate the murder of prom queen Hayley Price.

He is assisted by ETHL (the Extremely Timely Homicide Locator), an MIT-created computer programmed to find "the most interesting, violent, culturally relevant murder cases in America".

The court hears closing arguments and the jury deliberates before giving the final verdict, all on a very special LIVE episode of A Very Fatal Murder!"

The podcast received mostly positive reviews, and was largely praised for attacking true-crime tropes such as the "hot dead girl" and the romanticization of small-town America.