Father and son, grim cases, and constant ribbing.
Little Jim and his father, Big Jim, work through true crime cases, from Susan Powell's marriage in Utah to young women who vanished while hitchhiking in 1973. The facts come plain and blunt. Between them come jokes about who the son's real father is, teasing about weight and talk of grandkids.
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2 Guys 1 Crime Podcast is true crime told across a generational gap. Little Jim and his father, Big Jim, host it together, and the way they talk to each other counts for as much as the cases. Several episodes open the same way. A spoken warning says some material may be disturbing, a few grisly lines follow about what police found in the soil, and a voice asks whether any of this is made up. The goodbye is just as fixed: a promise to talk again 'until the next crime.' Between those bookends, one host reads the research while the other reacts, guesses and cuts in. The cases range widely. The first part of Susan Powell's story covers the couple's Mormon background, her marriage to Josh at 19 and their move to West Valley City, Utah. Another episode goes through young women who disappeared while hitchhiking in 1973, one of them found in a ditch on Highway 16. Another story follows a woman named Dorothea through San Francisco, Washington and Mexico City and into a relationship with a much younger Roberto, and the age gap audibly startles the other host. The show also steps outside crime for a Second World War story about Rosa. She kept asking soldiers to let her join, was told war was no place for women, and ended up in the Red Army. A host compares those women with American women who built ships, planes and ammunition at home. The telling is plain, not polished. One host says outright that he wishes he had more to offer than sad, bare facts. The humor is a family roast. The son's paternity gets pinned on a mailman or a gardener, one host insists he is chubby rather than fat, and one episode makes a point of learning to say charcuterie. Creepy music and background sound draw complaints more than once, including one host's vow to shut the recording down if something turns up behind him. The seams stay visible. One episode keeps the pair's on-mic debate about how the intro should go, and another announces a 'new and improved' show under a new name. The closing minutes drift to grandkids, pronouns, a Las Vegas trip and visitors from the UK. The commentary is unfiltered too. One case involves a 21-year-old with a record and a girl named Christine. It turns into one host's memories of 1980s high school, when grown men dated girls from his school, and his thoughts on who was to blame. Expect coarse language, crude jokes and blunt descriptions of assault and murder.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants true crime cases told plainly, with a father-and-son comedy running alongside, and who doesn't mind coarse language, crude jokes and long tangents between the facts.
What sets it apart: The cases themselves are read out plainly. The personality comes from a dad and his son teasing each other, complaining about creepy background sound and wandering into family life. The subjects also go beyond murder cases, for example to a woman's fight to serve in the Red Army.
Welcome to 2 Guys 1 Crime. A True Crime/Comedy podcast hosted by a son and his father. Join us on a crazy story adventure, 1 Crime at a time.
A father-son crime story pauses for a mystery knock, and suddenly you're checking your own hallway.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A conversational first chapter follows Susan Powell's marriage from public expectations to private alarm.
Episode 62 sets up Susan Powell's early marriage to Josh through the pressures around family, faith, a move to West Valley City, Utah, and the arrival of their sons, Charles and Brandon.
A young Red Army sniper's diary turns daily battlefield life into a possible espionage case.
The episode centers its true-crime thread on Rosa, a 19-year-old woman who joined the Red Army, trained as a sniper, and kept a diary that could be read as espionage.
Bleak hitchhiking cases meet loose, reactive banter in a rough-edged episode shaped by grim details and off-mic interruptions.
This episode follows a disturbing run of true-crime accounts involving people who disappeared while hitchhiking, framed as a loose conversation between a son and Big Jim.
A grim Dorothea Puente case gets a loose, darkly funny, conversational true-crime treatment.
A grim portrait of Dorothea Puente comes through in a trail of names, marriages, a striking age gap, and seven bodies found in soil, tied in sheets and duct tape.
A casual, uneasy discussion of warning signs, abuse, and a relationship turning darker.
The episode tracks Christine and Christopher's relationship as it gathers one warning sign after another: an assault arrest, drug problems, widespread distrust from people around Christopher, and Lori's uneasy read on him.
ABC Audio's Theranos fraud series that also introduces its other true-crime podcasts.
LA Times reporter Christopher Goffard traces con man John Meehan's fraud, abuse, and its Bravo TV adaptation.
Two Guys 1 Crime covers the disappearance of Susan Powell, born October 16, 1981 in New Mexico, and the home life that led up to December 7, 2009.
2 Guys 1 Crime Podcast covers Rosa Shania, a Soviet woman born April 3, 1924 in Leningrad who walked 10 kilometers to school and later 50 hours to Archangel for secondary education.
Two Guys, One Crime covers the Highway of Tears, a 450-mile stretch of Highway 16 from Prince George to Prince Rupert, British Columbia, and says the case is tied to 18 official cases and possibly more than 100 Indigenous women and girls.
2 Guys 1 Crime Podcast turns to Dorothea Puente, the Sacramento boarding-house owner convicted of murdering nine people and suspected in up to 15.
2 Guys 1 Crime Podcast Episode 58 opens with the hosts joking about Texas laws, including it being illegal to milk someone else’s cow and to shoot a buffalo from a hotel room.
John White stabbed 17-year-old Teresa 15 times in 1980, and she survived after a neighbor called police.
A peach farmer’s 1971 call in Yuba City led deputies to uncover 25 bodies in an orchard.
On Episode 55, hosts Big Jim and Serge present two cases involving girls taken from their families.