About the Host

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.