Coming up.

At that point, I kind of got the bug, and I was obsessed with the case and obsessed with

solving it.

I felt like I needed to keep pursuing this because no one else was.

For Vault Studios, I'm Reid Redmond.

You're listening to The Daily Crime.

A few weeks back on our episode titled, They Kept Hitting Dead Ends,

I talked with WLTX reporter, Alicia Niaves, about an unusual double homicide in Sumter County, South Carolina.

And he read up on this case, and he just decided, you know what, I'm going to do my own

independent investigation.

He's not a PI. He's a private citizen who just took interest in this case.

So he decided to read up on this case, the Sumter John and Jane Doe.

After 44 years, investigators had finally identified a John and Jane Doe who were shot to death in

1976. And they did that with help from a civilian volunteer who's joining me to talk about

his work on that case and others. Matt McDaniel, thanks for taking a little time away from

solving mysteries to chat with me. Thank you. Thanks for having you. Absolutely. And so Matt,

you refer to yourself as a

victim's advocate volunteer, if I have that right? Correct. And what exactly do you mean by

that term victim's advocate volunteer? That means that I represent the people that are missing.

There's a lot of times in cases where law enforcement and the community are looking for

the victim, but no one's really advocating for the victim and putting themselves in the victim's

shoes.

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