Hi Paul. Hi Ardly. How are you doing? I'm doing great. How are you? I'm so good. It's so great to have you on Small Town Dicks. Oh I am so happy to be here. So we want to know how did we persuade you to join us here on Small Town Dicks. Oh it was it was a lot of arm twisting. Not the truth.

Well what has always impressed me about Small Town Dicks is the professionalism. First you have your authenticity. You know Dan and Dave, myself we come out of real crime. We've had real experiences. And so the audience, the listeners are getting from Small Town Dicks. What actually happens out there. Not something that's been glamorized. But also you guys don't exploit the cases. You're empathetic to the victims. And this is what I'm all about. And I know that people who know me from

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Hey Small Town Fam, we have a fascinating, deeply personal case for you today. For starters, the first thing Detective Matt said about this case when he sat down with us.

It was the worst year of his life. And as he offered up details of going deep undercover, all I could think was how this assignment he'd taken on sounded like a season of homeland or a Tom Clancy novel. Except that in Matt's case it was very, very real. And the potential for life threatening danger hung in the air for him every minute of every day.

And it was not just the danger of Matt getting found out, but the potential danger of hundreds of people getting killed if the potential of the world was not the same.

So we at Small Town Dicks also wanted to know what kind of toll stress like that takes on a man and his family. This is deep cover.

Hi there, I'm Yardley. I'm Dan. I'm Dave. And I'm Paul. And this is Small Town Dicks.

Dave and I are identical twins and retired detectives from Small Town USA. And I'm a veteran cold case investigator who helped catch the Golden State Killer using a revolutionary DNA tool.

Between the three of us, we've investigated thousands of crimes from petty theft to sexual assault, child abuse to murder. Each case we cover is told by the detective who investigated it, offering a rare personal account of how they saw the crime.

Names, places, and certain details have been changed to protect the privacy of victims and their families.

And although we're aware that some of our listeners may be familiar with these cases, we ask you to please join us in continuing to protect the true identities of those involved out of respect for what they've been through.

Thank you.

Today on Small Town Dicks, we have the usual suspects. We have Detective Dave. Good morning, Yardley. Good morning, David. So happy to see you. We have Detective Dan. Hello, team. Hello, you. We have the one and only Paul Holt. Hey, how's it going?

Everybody's at the table, very excited. And Small Town fan, we are so pleased to welcome back to the podcast. One of our new fan favorites, Detective Matt. Good morning. Thanks for having me back.

We're so happy to have you. And I have to say we're here in South Florida. We're actually meeting in person for the very first time last time that we had you on the podcast. We did it over Zoom, of course.

It was the case we ended up calling politically incorrect, but it's so much better to sit down with you in person. Definitely.

So Matt, we're ready to hear about the worst year of your life. So yes, this case pretty much took everything out of me. It was very trying. And it was a 24-7 case for a little over a year.

I had to be a different person. You know, I went into undercover narcotics work and I was young and they were like, Oh, well, what do you want to do?

I want to do a deep cover case. That's what everybody wants to do. You know, see how deep you can go. It's becoming a bit of a dying art anyway. It's not happening a lot anymore.

How come social media? Is that because basically with social media, we don't have any privacy anymore. You know, we're constantly photobombing our lives, throwing everything up on every gram of every kind.

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