Crime Adjacent
Chase Patrick
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OK, profilers. Can you solve an unsolvable murder?
Join host and serial killer survivor Chase Patrick live on stage for Crime Adjacent, the world’s biggest true crime podcast. Every week, at shows across the country, Chase reopens the most haunting, enduring mysteries from the grim underbelly of American true crime and challenges you to solve them.
“An atmospheric and immersive podcast where true crime and psychological thrillers intersect.” — Earworthy
From the Zodiac to the Rest Stop Killer, the Michigan Nightstalker to the Cross Country Killer, each episode unfolds like a real investigation — like the whip smart, nerdy love child of Murder, She Wrote and War of the Worlds — and dares you to unravel the mystery and provide justice for those who need it most.
It looks like a true crime podcast. It sounds like a true crime podcast. But what happens when the cosmology of our escapist entertainment looks terrifyingly like our real world? That’s Crime Adjacent. It’s a fully scripted, intimate, locked-room mystery that pulls back the curtain on our social obsession with true crime and what this fascination with humanity’s darkest impulses says about … us.
“Crime Adjacent is redefining the true crime genre.” — Podcasting Today
Crime Adjacent is written and performed by Mike Adamick, a former crime reporter turned contributor for NPR, The New York Times, and McSweeney’s. He uses degrees in sociology and gender studies from UC Berkeley, along with an obsession with criminal profiling, true crime, and Jessica Fletcher, to explore why people commit crimes, why we are enthralled with them, and who, ultimately, pays the price.
So listen closely, profilers. Because with every episode, a new crime is afoot and every detail matters.
It’s not crime. It’s Crime Adjacent.
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Crime Adjacent is written and performed by Mike Adamick.
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Recent Episodes
Crime Adjacent Live Episode 582: The Happiest Sleuths on Earth
On March 20, 2021, the body of Alexia Russo was discovered inside her Anaheim, California, townhouse just blocks from Disneyland.The 33-year-old horticulturalist actually worked at the theme park. In…
Crime Adjacent Live Episode 581: The Temecula Hitchhiker Killer
On the morning of Sunday, Feb. 14, 2010, the body of 21-year-old Monica Bixby was discovered behind bushes and berms along a desolate stretch of Highway 79 in Temecula, California.The aspiring film…
Crime Adjacent Live Episode 580: The Fairfield Sandwich Shop Murder
On the morning of Saturday, Jan. 3, 1998, the body of 17-year-old Samantha Carpenter was discovered in the kitchen of a popular sandwich shop in Fairfield, California. She had been hit on the back of…
Crime Adjacent Live Episode 579: The Cross Country Killer
On November 23, 1987, Bernard "Barnie" Jones arrives home from a business trip and tells his wife he feels "heavy" after a long flight and stress. The next morning, she finds him dead of an apparent…
S8E25 Catching the Nightstalker
At the tail end of September 2024, a man in a clown mask broke into the cabins of vacationing women on Walloon Lake in Northern Michigan to rub their feet in the dead of night. And then, the murders…
S8E24 A race to the end
Two things happened on that final night, Sunday September 29, 2024.Sheriff Press, Bill Laboa, and one of the Crime Adjacent computer pros formed a makeshift team to track all of the clowns roaming…
S8E23 A town on fire
Early in the morning on May 24, 2010, a fire broke out at a cabin on Walloon Lake. At first, investigators thought it was an ember flying from a backyard fire pit.But then, fire investigators…
S8E22 Going fishing
Deputy Swanson immediately recognized a victim of sextortion when she saw high school senior Emily Willis trudging fearfully through town.The FBI reports that more than 7,000 cases of sextortion…
S8E21 Blackmail
High school senior Emily Willis said her best friend, Dorian Block, was the happiest, most cheerful person she had ever met. They'd known each other since before kindergarten and were about to…
S8E20 Theory of the case
Sheriff Press had a grand theory about the ultimate suspect in this case. She put it all together when she noticed a pattern.All of the women who were assaulted were out-of-town visitors. But all of…
S8E19 Two days, four murders
Northern Michigan lake country had seen a murder in years. And then all of a sudden there are four, in just two days?It didn't make sense to Sheriff Press. All of her prime suspects were either in…
S8E18 An Accomplice
Tim Meeks said he had an accomplice, someone who gave him information about which cabins were rented by single women and then paid him to go scare all these visitors. Really put the fright into…
S8E17 Interrogation
How do you get information out of someone who absolutely, positively, doesn’t want to give it? And what if you raise the stakes even more? What if, say, you want them to tell you something. But that…
S8E16 Arresting the Nightstalker
The plan to use Deputy Swanson as a decoy to lure out the Nightstalker failed miserably.Swanson was stabbed. The Nightstalker got away. And although Sheriff Press finally had confirmation that Tim…
S8E15 How serial killers get their names
The same thing that happened in California, in the 1980s, happened in Northern Michigan. Residents wondered: What do we call this guy?In the beginning, he broke into cabins and rubbed women's feet…
S8E14 A huge mistake
We had to get ahead of this guy. That was my thinking. The clown creeper was breaking into cabins with impunity, and now he was in downtown Petoskey, where he was responsible for the murder of…
S8E13 A loud clue
Just a few blocks from the Clinton Street house where Allison Barnes was murdered that Saturday, Realtor Ebony Aster was hosting her own open house on Lake Street.But while she was getting ready, she…
S8E12 A timeline for murder
Can you kill a person in five minutes? And then appear perfectly reasonable when the cops arrive?These questions were floating through Sheriff Press's mind as she questioned Billy Barnes, who had…
S8E11 Who belongs in town?
As more and more cabins were broken into and more and more visitors were assaulted, or murdered, the town grappled with a sticky moral dilemma.Who belongs? Who gets to call this place home, and who…
S8E10 A new suspect
Best-selling author Aitana Ruiz heads to Walloon Lake every September to put the finishing touches on the latest book in her popular series Daggers and Wind. But 2024 was different.Because on…
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