About the show
Crime Adjacent is the never-ending true crime story told weekly. It is a scripted podcast that overlays speculative storylines onto the cosmology of true crime, blurring the lines between reality and conspiracy.
Each episode unfolds like exactly like a true crime documentary with meticulous research, investigative reporting, and deep, intimate storytelling from the perspective of victims and survivors.
As each new season spirals out of control, Crime Adjacent host and serial killer survivor Chase Patrick dives deeper and deeper into true crime rabbit holes, real and imagined, and asks listeners to consider: In this age of information overload, just how real are our nightmares? Our entertainment?
Why are we drawn to humanity’s darkest impulses, and what can this teach us about ourselves, about vulnerability, about community and justice and … survival?
Go deep or go home.
That’s the motto of the podcast’s members-only true crime reading group – the first of its kind in true crime. It’s a place where die-hard true crime and criminal profiling fans can nerd out and explore the show’s big issues together.
In the first season, host Chase Patrick investigates the Rest Stop Killer — quite possibly the most prolific serial killer in American history.
His reign of terror begins in 1995, when he murders three men in the small Bay Area town of Ridgewood before disappearing.
The crimes go practically unnoticed for 30 years, overshadowed by the Golden State Killer, the Zodiac, and other murderers who haunted the region.
But in late 2023, the killer suddenly returns to small town Ridgewood, taking residents off the streets, in broad daylight.
What Chase uncovers is a trail of destruction and heartbreak, along with a legacy of violence that stretches across decades and spans the entire country.
Listen to the first episode wherever you find your favorite podcasts.
The show is produced by Multitude. While each episode explores real true crime cases, other cases have been manufactured for entertainment, like your favorite mystery thriller, and any resemblance to real places or people is coincidental. Listen to the first episode here or wherever you find your favorite podcasts.
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About Mike
Crime Adjacent is written and performed by Mike Adamick, a former NPR and New York Times contributor and best-selling author. He began his writing career as a small-town crime reporter in the Bay Area, covering the Zodiac killer and once nearly colliding with the Co-Ed Killer in prison.
His reporting and personal essays have been published regularly in Parade Magazine, NPR, the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and KQED Radio.
He has published several books, most notably the Dad’s Book of Awesome Series (Simon and Schuster — 2014) and Raising Empowered Daughters (Hachette — 2019).
Mike returned to college later in life and uses degrees in sociology and gender studies from UC Berkeley, as well as crime reporting interests in forensic psychology and profiling, to provide each season with an in-depth exploration of why the crimes were committed, why the people who committed them can also live next door, and what our social fascination with true crime says about … us.
He lives in San Francisco, where he is probably listening to a murder pod.
(Photo: Lisa Keating)
