Jack Laurence

One Minute Remaining

A true crime podcast like no other, One Minute Remaining: Stories from the Inmates has become an award-winning global podcast sensation since its launch in September 2022 by host and creator Jack Laurence.

Formerly a multi award-winning Australian radio host, throughout his fourteen-year career in the industry Jack had worked in nearly every market across the country when, seeking a new challenge in 2022 Jack left his Breakfast role at 2Day FM Sydney and moved his family to Queensland’s Gold Coast.

With the intention of using his wealth of experience in broadcasting to make the move into the podcasting sphere, Jack was researching stories for a concept unrelated to true crime when he was led to the intriguing case of an incarcerated woman in Florida who claimed she was wrongfully convicted. After their first phone call, a spark of inspiration led to the creation of his flagship podcast.

A compelling, compassionate and often crazy glimpse behind the bars of the US penal system, Jack simplytalks to incarcerated people, inviting them to share their stories – until the automated “you have one minute remaining” we’re all familiar with from the movies signals the conversation must end.

This fresh, completely original concept paired with Jack’s documentary-style storytelling quickly propelled One Minute Remaining (OMR) to the top of the Australian podcast charts, almost immediately securing the number 3 spot before climbing to number one on Apple and Spotify within just three months of its release. It was also highlighted in Apple’s New & Noteworthy and recognised by The Daily Telegraph as one of its Top 10 New Podcasts shortly after its debut.

In just its first year the show had surpassed one million downloads; won Best Indie Crime Podcast at the Radio Today Podcast Awards; and been shortlisted for both Best True Crime Podcast and Best New Podcast at the Australian Podcast Awards.

Now with more than three hundred episodes published, OMR has amassed over ten million downloads and has a dedicated listenership in more than one hundred and thirty countries, including a fully dubbed Spanish version. A community that has organically grown around the podcast refer to themselves as the OMR Jury, with listeners discussing their opinions on cases and the innocence or guilt of those featured in a ten thousand member-strong Facebook group.

With his open and non-judgemental approach, Jack has a knack for encouraging his guests to open up about their lives, crimes and time behind bars. Delving beyond personal stories, the show explores the broader judicial system from initial crime investigations, police interrogation techniques, and forensic evidence gathering, to courtroom proceedings, appeals, and life under the United States penal system.

Jack has covered fascinating and complex cases that have gained major media attention, with the likes of Temujin Kensu (one of the USA’s most infamous wrongful conviction victims), as well as Joe Exotic (The Tiger King) and Jason Vukovich (the ‘Alaskan Avenger’) sharing their stories – as well as bringing to light stories that may otherwise go untold. Notably, the OMR community were there to witness the exonerations of Evaristo Salas Jr. and Christopher Dunn—two men wrongfully convicted as teenagers who finally regained their freedom decades later.

While the show doesn’t shy away from the harsh realities of prison life, including stories of violence and daily struggles, its primary focus is on the human side of incarceration and the often flawed systems that keep these individuals behind bars.

Jack’s second true crime podcasting venture was launched in 2023. In Wanted Jack interviews men and women from around the world who have been or who are currently wanted by authorities. With stories ranging from claims of international kidnapping and Panamanian cartels to North Korean sanction dodging, leaked government secrets and even prison escapes, the gripping twelve-part mini-series quickly climbed the podcast charts, garnering over 300,000 downloads.

Inspired by audience feedback about listening to crime shows while drifting off at night, Jack created Crime at Bedtime in May 2024. Within just four months, Crime at Bedtime had accumulated over 300,000 downloads and broken into the Top Ten crime podcast charts in five countries. In July 2025 Jack added another bedtime offering to his roster. Mysteries at Bedtime landed straight in the Apple charts globally, with an immediate chart presence in USA, Canada, UK, Australia, Singapore, NZ, Philippines and UAE.

At the 2025 Adelaide Fringe Jack made his live debut – presenting the first One Minute Remaining live show at Adelaide Fringe. This debut included a real-time conversation with Temujin Kensu from his cell and was a huge success, instantly selling out with a Melbourne live show added to meet demand.

September 2025 saw the release of Jack’s collaboration with into one of the most successful podcasts in the history of the medium, the multi award-winning global phenomenon Casefile. Casefile Presents: Suing Diddy, uncovers the mind-bending story of the man who sued Sean “P. Diddy” Combs for $100 million, while representing himself, from behind bars… and won.

Hosted on the Acast network, this bonkers tale is a rabbithole of alleged assault, corruption, cover-ups, and murder. The seven-part series immediately reached the top of multiple charts, broadening Jack’s reach into an expanded global audience.

Now three years into his podcasting career, with over five hundred and fifty episodes across five podcasts and a total of more than twelve million downloads, Jack is heard in almost every country around the world.

Outstanding

Gary Jubelin (I Catch Killers)