Crime Adjacent
by Chase Patrick
Crime Adjacent Live Episode 597: Maine's Most Notorious Fugitive
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.
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Crime Adjacent is written and performed by Mike Adamick.
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Episodes
The newest 20 of 75 episodes
- Crime Adjacent Live Episode 597: Maine's Most Notorious Fugitive · 37 min · Episode 597In 1956, Thomas Keegan robbed a convenience store in Portland, Maine, and the clerk had a heart attack from the fright. Keegan was sentenced to life in prison, despite never…
- Crime Adjacent Live Episode 596: The Rahway River Ripper · 43 min · Episode 596How fast can you run a half mile? If you're really booking it? 5 minutes? 6?Now imagine you see a loved one being attacked a half mile away. How fast could you get there to…
- Crime Adjacent Live Episode 595: The Betrayal of Matilde Freeman · 26 min · Episode 595Matilde Freeman, age 12, practically skipped out of her house in Stockton, California, on Oct. 8, 2022. Finally, she must have thought, finally. After years of bullying and a…
- Crime Adjacent Live Episode 594: The Miraculous Discovery of Emily Voss · 46 min · Episode 594On a quiet a Saturday afternoon in October 1980, someone crept into the Voss household in Scottsdale, Arizona, and snatched 2-year-old Emily Voss from her crib while her mother…
- Crime Adjacent Live Episode 593: The Iowa Farmhouse Massacre · 26 min · Episode 593On March 16, 2003, the bodies of the entire Banda family, along with two of their neighbors, were discovered in their farmhouse cellar in Ashton, Iowa.At first, police thought…
- Crime Adjacent Live Episode 592: The Live Stream Killing of Madison Park · 33 min · Episode 592You asked for it, and we are delivering. Today, we are finally revisiting the case you've urged us to cover: the murder of popular YouTuber Madison Park during her live stream on…
- A Quick Announcement from Mike · 3 minThis is Mike, creator and writer of Crime Adjacent, breaking the fourth wall for a quick announcement I have been … dreading.Starting now, today, I’m making a change to the…
- Crime Adjacent Live Episode 591: The Murfreesboro Five · 41 min · Episode 591In the span of four years in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, from 2018 to 2022, five people died under suspicious or mysterious circumstances.A mother, a student, a police officer, a…
- Crime Adjacent Live Episode 590: The Idaho Falls Hotel Murder · 55 min · Episode 590On October 11, 2024, 28-year-old Emma Girma checked into the Silver Pines Hotel in downtown Idaho Falls, Idaho, and never checked out.Her body wouldn't be discovered for 12 days…
- Crime Adjacent Live Episode 589: The Disappearance of Xavier Barnes · 40 min · Episode 589On a Saturday night in 2004, 22-year-oild Xavier Barnes can be seen exiting the Iron Spike Saloon in Opelika, Alabama, with a phone to his ear.He looks one way. Then another. He…
- Crime Adjacent Live Episode 588: The Slow Motion Murder of Dorothy Strasberg · 52 min · Episode 588When 27-year-old Dorothy Strasberg met a charming stranger in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 2020, it felt like a love story. The man swept her off her feet, won over her family…
- Crime Adjacent Live Episode 587: The Perfect Murder · 44 min · Episode 587At about 10:45 p.m. on Thursday, October 14, 2021, David Keller answered a knock at his door only to find a naked person standing right in front of him.The naked person pulled a…
- Crime Adjacent Live Episode 586: The Murder of Jessica Murphy · 43 min · Episode 586On the afternoon of Friday, Sept. 4, 1987, 9-year-old Jessica Murphy disappeared from her cul-de-sac in the quiet, peaceful Willow Creek neighborhood of Omaha, Nebraska.One…
- Crime Adjacent Live Episode 585: The Ohio Basement Killer · 35 min · Episode 585On Wednesday, June 17, 2015, Officer Danielle Peterson breaks down the front door of a house on quiet Lundy Street in the fancy North Arts District of Columbus, Ohio.The…
- Crime Adjacent Live Episode 584: Alpine Divorce: Murder on the Trail · 28 min · Episode 584On Saturday May 8, 2021, hikers Libby Mitchell and Stacey Rose Anderson met on the Deer Mountain Trail in the Rocky Mountain national park in Colorado.They were before strangers…
- Crime Adjacent Live Episode 583: The Ridge Hollow files · 37 min · Episode 583It was late at night on July 5, 2019, when the phone suddenly rang in the empty Ridge Hollow Recorder newspaper in Ridge Hollow, Colorado.Reporter Penny C. Johnson casually…
- Crime Adjacent Live Episode 582: The Happiest Sleuths on Earth · 42 min · Episode 582On 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…
- Crime Adjacent Live Episode 581: The Temecula Hitchhiker Killer · 41 min · Episode 581On 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…
- Crime Adjacent Live Episode 580: The Fairfield Sandwich Shop Murder · 47 min · Episode 580On 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…
- Crime Adjacent Live Episode 579: The Cross Country Killer · 53 min · Episode 579On 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…







