About This Episode
What is this episode about?
The episode "The Reunion" from Room 20 covers the moment a nursing home director contacts the family of an unidentified, unresponsive man known only as Sixty-Six Garage to inform them of his medical condition. Host Joanne Faryon travels to Ohio to piece together what led Garage to the California desert in the summer of 1999, and the episode follows him celebrating his birthday for the first time in 17 years.
Hosts and release
Joanne Faryon hosts Room 20, an investigative true crime podcast produced by L.A. Times Studios that examines the more than 15-year mystery surrounding a man known as Sixty-Six Garage, found unidentified and unresponsive in California. The series unfolds across California, USA, tracing the search for his identity and the circumstances that left him unknown for over a decade and a half.
This fifth installment, The Reunion, runs 23 minutes and was released on August 13, 2019. It marks a turning point in the investigation, as the discovery of Garage's family in Ohio shifts the narrative from mystery to reconnection. Faryon's trip to Ohio provides context for Garage's journey west, while the depiction of his first birthday celebration in 17 years underscores the human cost of his long, unidentified existence in a California care facility.
