Crime Scene Kitchen: Every Winning Team So Far

Spoiler note: this post names the winning team of every Crime Scene Kitchen season.

Crime Scene Kitchen is the Fox competition where baking meets detective work: duos inspect a kitchen someone just baked in, deduce the dessert from crumbs, tools, and cryptic clues, then recreate it from scratch. Joel McHale hosts, Curtis Stone and Yolanda Gampp judge, and the last team standing wins $100,000. Because the show is built on teams of two, every championship belongs to a pair, and both names deserve equal billing. Here is the complete list, pulled from our show record, where each season is verified against a cited source.

Every Crime Scene Kitchen winning team

Season 1: Luis and Natalie

The inaugural champions were friends and Las Vegas bakers Luis Flores and Natalie Collins-Fish, who beat eleven other duos across the nine-episode first season. Their plan for the prize money was the classic one: open a bakery of their own back home. We track what happened to them after the confetti fell in our where-are-they-now check-in on Luis and Natalie.

Season 2: Amber and Yassmeen

Season two stretched to ten episodes and ended with Baltimore friends Amber Croom and Yassmeen Haskins taking the title. Both came into the show as small business owners (Croom founded And 4 Dessert, Haskins founded Cocoa & Nuts Pastries), and after winning they teamed up again on a joint beignet venture. They remain one of the show's most likable champion pairs.

Season 3: Jessica and Lenore

The third season, which aired in the fall of 2024, produced the show's first champions from outside the United States: Jessica Harrison and Lenore Johnson, friends and bakery owners from Kitchener, Ontario. They prepared like true students of the show, studying both prior seasons and borrowing tactics from earlier teams, and their finale bake (a two-tier orange semolina olive oil cake they matched almost exactly to the mystery dessert) sealed the win over two other finalist duos.

A note on how these wins work

Because Crime Scene Kitchen judges accuracy first (did the team correctly identify the mystery dessert?) and execution second, its champions tend to be teams that communicate well under pressure rather than simply the flashiest decorators. All three winning duos so far have been pairs of friends, which probably is not a coincidence: married couples and siblings have reached the finals, but the friend teams keep closing.

Fox renewed the series for a fourth season in November 2024, so this list should grow. For the full story of how the mystery format works, the clue system, and why the show stands out in a crowded genre, see our Crime Scene Kitchen explainer.