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Crime Adjacent
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ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗

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. 


New live shows every Wednesday from theaters across America.


Weekly live behind the scenes insights for Crime Adjacent insiders at Patreon -- http://www.patreon.com/crimeadjacent 


Instagram -- https://www.instagram.com/crimeadjacent

 

Web site -- www.crimeadjacent.com

 

Crime Adjacent is written and performed by Mike Adamick. 

 

It is produced & edited by Multitude.


True Crime
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Average audio length:
27 minutes
English
United States
73 episodes
since May 20, 2025
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Crime Adjacent. New season: The Rest Stop Killer

Crime Adjacent. New season: The Rest Stop Killer

Thirty years ago, someone began snatching men from a small Bay Area town and dumping their bodies in a quiet lovers’ lane just off Interstate 80. But just as quickly as the killings began, they suddenly stopped. The killer simply vanished. No suspects. No arrests. No headlines. These men and their…
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Tommy

Tommy

Tommy Coulet left home at 9 p.m. on Dec. 23, 1995 and would never return. His body was discovered the next morning in a known lovers’ lane spot on the western edge of Ridgewood just off Interstate 80. Investigators wouldn’t know it at the time, but Tommy Coulet would be the first known victim of t…
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The Profile

The Profile

With no leads, no clues, and no suspects, Tommy’s case went cold, almost instantly. But as more men were abducted in Ridgewood, investigators reached out to the FBI for a profile. The profile has never been publicly released. Until now. Crime Adjacent is the never-ending true crime story told we…
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Bobby #1

Bobby #1

Exactly two weeks after the discovery of Tommy Coulet, another man was found on the outskirts of Ridgewood. Same valley. Same injuries. Same horrible manner of death. This is the story of Bobby Calvin, who would soon become known as Bobby #1. Crime Adjacent is the never-ending true crime story t…
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The Timeline

The Timeline

Bobby Calvin had everything going for him.  Smart, handsome, a former D1 star quarterback at Stanford, where he almost led the team to a national title in the 1980s. An actor with big dreams of Hollywood. An early adopter of the Internet. So how did he cross paths with a killer on a lonely …
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The Doodler Links

The Doodler Links

Detective Ida Jones had seen this before. Gay men were being murdered while the police and the entire town looked the other way.  Like a nightmare she couldn’t escape, she couldn’t stop this from happening in Ridgewood.  Crime Adjacent is the never-ending true crime story told weekly. N…
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Bobby #2

Bobby #2

With the discovery of a third body in the valley just off Interstate 80 in Ridgewood, police realized the killer emerged every other Saturday night. Only this time, instead of abducting a man at Hunter Hill rest stop, he was in Ridgewood. Anyone, it seemed, was fair game now. Crime Adjacent is t…
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A New Zodiac Victim?

A New Zodiac Victim?

The similarities between the abduction of Bobby Briggs and one Zodiac survivor were so striking that Detective Jones had to check it out.  Briggs was kidnapped in the middle of Ridgewood, on a busy thoroughfare. And yet, there were no witnesses or signs of a struggle. It was as if he simply v…
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Panic

Panic

After the abduction and murder of Bobby Briggs on Jan. 20, 1996, Ridgewood exploded. There was a killer among them, taking men. Off busy streets. Stomping them to death. Just as it has done all over the country for ages, panic set in. And Ridgewood would never be the same. Crime Adjacent is the n…
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Gone Cold

Gone Cold

One man built a flamethrower and patrolled the town’s sewer system, positive the killer lurked underground. A posse of women formed an armed vigilante group and roamed the streets at night. Neighbors reported other neighbors to police. Kids called the tip line on their teachers.  As Ridgewood…
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