Only Murders in the Building (OMITB), the Emmy award-winning show, follows three unlikely friends coming together through their love of true crime podcasts to solve a murder. Part of what makes the show a hit (other than its ensemble cast) is how it takes playfully aim at its audience.

We really do love true crime. Apple dropped its end-of-year charts for 2022 and the top slot went to Crime Junkie. Also among the top podcasts were Dateline NBC, Morbid, and even Seriel (the 2014 podcast got a boost after its subject, Adnan Syed, was freed this year).

Help solve a crime: Just like Selena Gomez or Steven Martin, now you can move beyond podcast aficionado and help bring peace to the families of real victims. Uncovered compiles timelines, maps, persons of interest, and more to empower its visitors to solve any one of 50,000 cold cases. Users can receive notifications when new information is added to a case. Founder Jim Brown noted that the community currently has almost 100,000 monthly visitors. Their contributions helped solve Uncovered’s first case earlier this year.

“We sift all the data we receive through a substantiation and verification process we created and provide relevant information to the correct agencies responsible for each case,” explains Brown.

Tangles with law enforcement: In OMITB, the main characters have a quirky, but mostly good relationship with investigators. Reality isn’t that black and white. Brown says that some members of law enforcement “believe this is *their* data and *their* case.” Others see it as a partnership and Uncovered even has plans to let law enforcement agencies claim their profiles in the future. According to Brown, the Uncovered community also includes retired officers, investigators, genealogists, and more.

All jokes aside, the Uncovered community doesn’t just view their work as “playing detective,” but rather an earnest effort to help solve cold cases and real-life families. Ready to jump in?

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