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The Deck Investigates

12 of 15: P.I.'s Best Lead

The Deck Investigates

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True Crime

4.86.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

We interview private investigator Patrick Zirpoli who reviewed the case and came up with yet another person of interest based on pre-crime, crime, and post-crime behavior.

Transcript

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0:00.0

About a year before we got involved with Darleen's case, her family worked with a private

0:06.4

investigator, Patrick Zerpoly, who goes by Zip to those who know him.

0:12.3

Zip spent his career with the Pennsylvania State Police.

0:15.2

He retired in 2015 as a corporal and the unit supervisor of the Criminal Investigation

0:20.2

Assessment Unit.

0:22.2

One of his specialties is Cold Case Homicide Investigations, and after retirement,

0:26.9

he's gone on to consult in cold cases.

0:30.1

Zip had the opportunity to review Darleen's case file, and he honed in on a particular

0:35.8

person of interest.

0:38.1

He cannot be ruled out as a suspect.

0:41.0

When you look at means, motive, and method and opportunity, he's the guy who stands up

0:46.7

above everyone else.

0:55.4

This is episode 12, P.I.'s Best Lead.

1:05.2

We're not using the real name of Zip's P.O.I. for legal reasons, so I'm going to call him

1:10.4

Daryl Lemon.

1:12.4

Daryl first came on the radar for police back in January 1985 via a tip from a woman

1:18.0

named Dolores, who worked at Young Door.

1:20.3

That's the same manufacturing company in Plymouth where Ron Holtz worked.

1:25.0

Dolores told police that during the summer of 1984, Daryl had been in Argus under,

1:30.4

quote-unquote, peculiar circumstances, and he had been staying at a home on 15 B.R.O.

1:36.3

just northeast of the Holes home.

1:39.0

This was on the edge of Argus, and he was staying with a couple named Larry and Bonnie

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