VALRICO — It was a Monday afternoon in the Tampa suburbs, all cul-de-sacs and overturned tricycles baking in the sun. In the two-car garage of the three-bedroom house with the tree swing, there was talk of murder.
Justin Drown, host of Obscura: A True Crime Podcast, keeps it cold as a morgue in there. The garage is a converted family room with a couch, a TV and scattered kids toys. It’s where Drown, 30, records and edits each episode of his show, looking back at an often grisly, real-life crime.
Drown has recounted infamous cases such as the murder of Ennis Cosby, and Gary Ridgeway, the “Green River Killer,” but focuses mostly on the obscure. A recent episode told the tale of Gertrude Baniszewski, the “skeleton lady” who took in a teenager in 1960s Indianapolis before enlisting her own children and some neighborhood kids in the girl’s torture.
Sitting on Drown’s desk was a microphone and an autopsy report for Iana Kasian, a…
