The two didn’t set out to become leading voices in the true crime world, but they have readily adapted to a job that includes the responsibilities of investigators, journalists, and storytellers.Īnd in “re-opening” some of these cases-and with the powerful platform their popularity has endowed them-they’re helping to keep unsolved cases alive. The pair has logged more than 200 episodes since they began in 2015, and today the show ranks as one of the most well regarded podcasts of the genre, winning acclaim from “casuals” and serious enthusiasts alike. Nowadays, the grisly stories ripped from the headlines aren’t being portrayed by shoddy reenactments on TV-they’re being combed through by average, everyday dudes. Their weird shared conversations became the foundation for True Crime Garage, now one of the most downloaded podcasts of its genre, swimming in the same sea as My Favorite Murder and Serial, riding the wave that started splashing down a few years back with Making a Murderer and The Jinx. These two men are Nic and The Captain, and from a two-car garage they’ve built an unlikely empire on the unlucky-and in the process become de facto experts in a sordid field.Īs it turns out, Nic and The Captain aren’t the only two “true crime dorks” out there. No, they’re carrying on their favorite hobby-one that has turned into a career-which is breathing new life into cases long forgotten, and rarely solved. These two men aren’t plotting a crime-although they have no last name as far as the author knows. The two men producing these echoes sip their drinks, hats pulled tight over their heads, their speech steeled by eerily extensive knowledge of murder and mayhem. In the corner of a cold bar, the walls echo with discussions of suspicion, deceit, and general human malevolence. This profile originally appeared in (614) Magazine and was published in the February 2018 issue.

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