DANI SMITH CASE~Through Private Eyes Meet Katherine Mayer

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, True Crime, Documentary

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🗓️ 13 January 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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DANI SMITH CASE Season 5 Episode 1 Season 5 takes you in a direction we haven’t explored before, as we are pleased to collaborate with Texas Criminal Defense Investigator Katherine Mayer. Sheila will continue to take the listeners through handling victims’ cases, working with the families to ensure justice is served. Katherine will lead you step-by-step in the defense process from the original offense to the final sentencing. Join us this season for a behind-the-scenes view from both sides as we take you Through Private Eyes. PI Page: www.sheilawysocki.com Podcast Page: www.withoutwarningpodcast.com Patreon: www.withoutwarningpodcasts.com Twitter: @scrappymomPI Instagram: @withoutwarningpi @privateeyepups Facebook: Without Warning PI All rights reserved © Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Catherine and I'm Sheila and we're taking you through private eyes.
0:14.9	Hi, this is Sheila Wisecaki. I became a private investigator because of my college roommates brutal rape and murder in Dallas, Texas in the 80s.
0:27.2	Unfortunately, she opened the door one night to a man I refer to as the beast and the consequences of that she was doing nothing wrong.
0:38.8	She just opened the door was a man taking out a knife and stabbing her so much that he broke her spine and
0:50.2	the stab wounds were so horrific that
0:54.6	the first responder
0:57.3	bought her heart was cut out and laid on her chest.
1:01.0	Angie's case went cold until the early 2000s and through a series of events I called the Dallas police
1:10.4	and found out from that very first call that nobody had called in 20 years.
1:15.4	And I think that's the most devastating
1:18.6	part of the story is that nobody called to find out who murdered her because her life mattered so much.
1:25.8	I originally reached out to the detective I worked with when the case first started and he didn't call me back.
1:34.3	And I kept calling and calling to the point where the nickname that I received from the Dallas police department was Pita.
1:42.9	Pain in the ass if you don't know what that means back then they didn't have a cold case division.
1:48.6	So I started making call after call trying to get someone to answer questions I was lied to.
1:56.3	They told me that the evidence was lost and there was a flood which there was a flood and some evidence was lost but not
2:04.3	Angie's. Luckily a woman named Linda Crumb who was a detective called me.
2:10.4	She opened the file she got the evidence the evidence was sent away for DNA testing and we got a hit.
2:20.2	The person that they got a hit on was a serial rapist now convicted murder he was convicted in 2010.
2:29.5	From that case I was going to retire my license but somebody had done a story on it and then I started getting
2:36.9	I started getting mail from families wanting help and of course I talk about this I was so stupid back then.
2:44.6	I had gotten my PI license I worked under a private investigator I learned a lot but there were things I was
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