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Small Town Dicks

Dead Man Walking

Small Town Dicks

Audio 99

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.710K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Sonja had filed for divorce from her husband, Roberto, and taken out a restraining order against him due to his violent tendencies towards her and their two children. So when Roberto doesn’t show up for court and Sonja doesn’t show up for work, police are dispatched to the house where they encounter the couple’s oldest daughter yelling that her father has a gun and is going to kill her mother. Detectives recount the hours-long stand-off and its impossible ending.

Special Guests

Sergeant David is a 30-year veteran of law enforcement. During his tenure he has worked patrol, SWAT, and several different assignments in Detectives including Narcotics, Auto Theft, and Violent Crimes.

Detective Don recently retired after serving in law enforcement for over 30 years. Don spent much of his career as a detective but also served on SWAT and as a Hostage/Crisis Negotiator.

Detective George has been in law enforcement for over 20 years. The last 12 years he has been a detective assigned to Domestic Violence, Auto Theft, and currently Violent Crimes. George has been a member of SWAT for 16 years. He previously served on Bike Patrol, and as a Field Training Officer.



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0:00.0

I spent the next couple hours off and on talking to him on the phone trying to find out

0:07.8

if she's alive, is she injured, is she dead.

0:13.6

I'm Yardley and I'm Zibi and we're fascinated by true crime.

0:18.2

So we invited our friends, detectives Dan and Dave to sit down with us and share their

0:23.1

most interesting cases.

0:25.5

I'm Dan and I'm Dave, Red Denicle Twins and we're detectives in small town USA.

0:30.9

Dave investigates sex crimes and child abuse.

0:33.6

Dan investigates violent crimes and together we've worked on hundreds of cases including

0:37.9

assaults, robberies, murders, burglaries, sex abuse and child abuse.

0:42.2

Names, locations and certain details of these cases have been altered to protect the privacy

0:47.0

of the victims and their families.

0:55.5

This case begins when a small town police agency received a 911 call from a concerned employee

1:08.6

at the District Attorney's Office.

1:10.9

The employee called to report that Roberto Sanchez, who was doing court that morning for

1:15.7

sentencing regarding a domestic abuse charge against his wife Sonia, was a no-show.

1:22.1

Given the nature of Roberto's crime and the fact that Sonia had a restraining order against

1:27.2

him, the DA's office became worried about Sonia's welfare.

1:32.2

When the employee called Sonia at work to check on her, she was told that Sonia had not

1:37.1

shown up that day.

1:39.1

The employee immediately called Sonia's home, whereupon she discovered that Roberto was

1:44.6

there and preventing Sonia and the children from leaving.

1:49.1

The DA's office immediately called the police.

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