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The Deck Investigates

Episode 12: A Friend Flips

The Deck Investigates

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True Crime

4.86.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Under pressure from the police due to his own involvement in drug dealing, Kenny suddenly changes his story about Steve’s behavior around the time of Ada Haradine’s disappearance. And his new account just fuels investigators’ lingering suspicions.

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0:00.0

Faced with getting in trouble for selling drugs, Kenny told Detective Dave Gizzy that there were a few things about his old friend Steve Dye that he somehow neglected to mention during their initial interview a couple of months ago.

0:16.4

But he was willing to share it all now.

0:19.0

So there, in his driveway, as he sat in the passenger seat of Detective Gizzy's unmarked

0:24.0

cruiser with the door cracked open, Kenny nervously began to talk.

0:29.0

And his new story couldn't have been more different from his first statement.

0:34.4

It was a complete 180, pretty much point for point. And this version aligned much

0:41.1

better with police's growing suspicion about Steve.

0:48.0

This is episode 12.. A friend flips.

1:05.4

Kenny had previously said he wasn't sure if Steve came to his house on May 8, 1985,

1:09.1

but that he often got home from work and found him there, waiting.

1:15.0

Now, he said that as best as he could recall, Steve did not stop by that day.

1:19.4

And he said his wife, who was his living girlfriend back then, agreed with him.

1:26.4

He went back and talked to his wife, Kenny did, and they both agreed at that time, because of Kenny's work schedule, he would have been working late.

1:29.1

There would have been no reason for Steve to come to the house because he knew they were good friends.

1:33.7

He knew that Kenny was working.

1:35.4

And they indicated to us that they don't have any independent recollection of him coming to the house that day.

1:43.7

Then there was the issue of Steve's land cruiser.

1:46.9

Kenny had initially said it was no surprise that Steve got rid of it in late May of

1:51.2

1985, that he'd been talking about doing so for a couple of months.

1:55.7

But now, he told Detective Gizzy Steve never mentioned wanting to sell it before.

2:00.8

He said it seemed like it was in pretty good condition.

2:03.5

And about six to eight months prior, Steve had put brand new tires on it.

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