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Cold Blooded

Small Town Dicks

Audio 99

True Crime, Paul Holes, History, Small Town, Yeardley Smith, Society & Culture, Police

4.79.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

After years of adventure on their dream yacht, a retired couple decides to sell it and move closer to their grandchildren. The buyers—a charming young couple with a toddler—seem perfect. They don’t haggle on price; their only request is to take a trip on the yacht together so the sellers can show them the ropes. But after that outing, the retired couple vanishes without a trace.

Former Orange County DA Matt is called in to uncover the truth, and what he finds is both shocking and devastating. This twisted case is filled with loose ends, and it’s up to Matt to untangle the mystery before it’s too late.

Matt Murphy is a legal analyst for ABC News and an attorney in private practice in Southern California. He was a Senior Deputy District Attorney in Orange County California. Matt Murphy spent 21 years assigned to the sexual assault and homicide units where he prosecuted some of the most notorious murder cases in the state of California. He completed 132 jury trials in his career as a prosecutor, including 52 while he was assigned to the homicide unit. He worked as an adjunct professor of law for 7 years. In addition to his work for ABC news, Mr. Murphy is in
private practice representing victims of sexual abuse and some select criminal defense cases.

He has also been regularly appearing on NewsNation with Elizabeth Vargas, Chris Cuomo and Ashleigh Banfield providing analysis on Criminal cases in the news. Matt published his first book, The Book of Murder: A Prosecutor's Journey Through Love and Death, in 2024, which was an instant Best Seller, and is working on his next book proposal.

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0:00.0

Hey, Smalltown fam, it's Yardley. How are you guys? We have the incredible Matt Murphy on the microphone today. Matt is the former Orange County Homicide DA. And now, of course, he's all over true crime shows on TV, providing

0:22.8

analysis from the prosecutor's point of view. Basically, if you watch true crime in the States,

0:28.6

you have for sure seen Matt Murphy. I can see why the case that Matt brings us today has stuck

0:35.9

with him all this time.

0:38.4

It's awful.

0:39.9

It's evil.

0:44.5

And it is the very definition of the phrase, cold-blooded murder.

0:51.2

There are a lot of players in this case, but Matt is a phenomenal storyteller, so you won't have any trouble following along.

0:53.3

And like me, I suspect you'll have an

0:56.0

idea where the story is going once you meet the two victims, and their kindness will fill you

1:02.5

with dread. You know, even after 16 seasons of this podcast, the thing that surprised me about

1:10.2

this episode was just how malevolent

1:13.1

and merciless the main suspect is. He's one of the worst we've covered, I think, for his

1:19.5

willingness to exploit his victim's trust, as well as his willingness to use his own child as a

1:26.3

means to an end. Basically, he takes a wrecking

1:30.2

ball to the lives of two innocent people without a shred of remorse. Here is cold-blooded.

1:42.5

Hi there, I'm Yardley.

1:44.6

I'm Dan. I'm Dave.

1:46.3

And I'm Paul.

1:47.3

And this is Smalltown Dix.

1:49.6

Dave and I are identical twins and retired detectives from Smalltown USA.

1:53.9

And I'm a veteran cold case investigator who helped catch the Golden State killer using a revolutionary DNA tool.

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