An Odious Obsession
Small Town Dicks
Audio 99
4.7 • 10K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Hector returns home from a work trip to find small things out of place. When Hector confronts his daughter, Sofia, she confesses to a secret relationship with a 68-year-old man she met swing dancing. Hector walks her straight to the police station, and that's how Lieutenant Ryan gets the case. A controlled call gives Ryan what he needs. But it's what Sofia says at the end of that call that changes everything and leads police to a search warrant that reveals just how deep this obsession goes.
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Lieutenant Ryan has worked in law enforcement for 15 years. He started his career as a patrol deputy and later moved into investigations as a detective, working in a unit that handled Crimes Against Children, including complex and sensitive cases involving abuse and exploitation.
After promoting through the ranks, Ryan has served in leadership roles in patrol services, special investigations, and spent several years in the Training Division, where he helped build his agency’s training academy and shape the next generation of officers. He also served for six years on his agency’s Crisis Negotiations Team, eventually becoming the team leader.
Ryan comes from a law enforcement family—his father and uncle both wore the badge before him, with his father serving over 40 years in law enforcement. He’s currently a shift commander on patrol and continues to oversee the field training program in his district.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Smalltown fam, it's Yardley. I want to remind you that if you want access to bonus episodes |
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| 0:48.1 | Hey Smeltow fam, it's Yardley. How are you guys? I hope you're all wonderfully well. |
| 0:56.0 | We have fan favorite Lieutenant Ryan back with us today. So just to refresh your memories, Ryan has given us a couple of cases over the seasons. One we called a race against time. Another I called |
| 1:02.8 | QuickSand. Ryan is great. Both of those episodes are worth a listen or a re-listen if it's been a while. |
| 1:10.3 | So for today, Ryan caught this case when he was still a sex crimes detective. |
| 1:16.6 | The victim, whose father brings her to the police department to report the crime, is 17 years old. |
| 1:24.6 | The man praying on her is 68. Yeah, I don't think I'll ever be immune to the shocking |
| 1:33.7 | ways people pray on others. And you'll actually hear me say in the first 10 minutes of this |
| 1:39.5 | episode that I'm already pissed off. And I'll just tell you, I wanted to rewrite the ending of this episode. |
| 1:47.7 | I wanted a bigger hammer |
| 1:49.1 | when it came to holding the predator responsible. |
| 1:52.6 | And I wanted assurances |
| 1:54.2 | that he wouldn't pray on any other teenage girls. |
| 1:58.6 | But as the saying goes, |
| 2:06.4 | you can't always get what you want. Here is an odious obsession. Hi there. I'm Yardley. I'm Dan. I'm Dave. And I'm Paul. And this is Smalltown Dix. |
| 2:17.1 | Dave and I are identical twins and retired detectives from Smalltown USA. And I'm Paul. And this is Smalltown Dix. Dave and I are identical twins and retired detectives from Small Town USA. |
| 2:21.4 | And I'm a veteran cold case investigator who helped catch the Golden State Killer using a revolutionary DNA tool. |
| 2:27.3 | Between the three of us, we've investigated thousands of crimes from petty theft to sexual assault, child abuse, to murder. |
| 2:36.1 | Each case we cover is told by the detective who investigated it, offering a rare, personal account of how they solved a crime. |
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