Hi, I'm Carol Dawson.

And I'm Wes Ferguson.

And we're here because today we want to talk about somebody who, in my opinion, has been a hero in Shelly Watkins' murder case.

And that is Larry Warwick, the chief investigator of homicide

for the Henderson County Sheriff's Office at the time that Shelley Watkins' body was found.

He has just passed away this past Thursday on June 26th, and we are deeply moved to learn that he's gone because he was such a remarkable person,

and it was such a special occasion when we first met and got to talk with him.

So let's talk about him.

I think a lot of listeners really responded to Larry's, you know, warmth. He just really stood out as one of the, like,

main people that you connect with in season one. You know, it's funny, he was one of the first people that we talked to in person.

And we had not met him before, but we figured out his address, and we just showed up. And I remember, you know, walking up his front steps, getting ready to knock on his door.

Does they come in?

Did you hear someone say, come in? Did you hear someone say come in?

I heard somebody break a sound, but not come in.

Oh.

And that's always pretty nerve-wracking.

It's something I've done a lot, but it doesn't, it never gets really easy.

And I remember, I think you also were feeling some trepidation about that.

You know, I was brought up to be a very polite southern girl. Yeah. You know, and you just don't drop in,

you know, cold, like a cold call on somebody like that. It was a little bit nerve wracking. Yeah.

Yeah. You just, you know, knock on the door. Hi, we're two strangers. Let's talk about a murder, you know. And the instant that Larry opened his door, I mean, he was just so welcoming. And it said, you know, y'all come on in and just set us down and just told us everything he could remember. And unfortunately,

he was already experiencing dementia at that point. And so he had lost a lot of the finer details,

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