Episode 187: Gary Wayne Puckett, Part 1

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.5 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

On September 23rd, 1997, a 52-year-old woman named Alice and her golden retriever vanished from the Cedar River trail outside Kent, Washington. Alice’s husband and daughter retraced her steps and searched for her… later learning that they may have encountered her killer on the trail. Soon after, authorities realize the attacker is not only a registered sex offender, but could be connected to other violent crimes in the surrounding area. In episode 187, Jac, Alexis, and Billy deconstruct the curious case of Gary Wayne Puckett, and the trail of errors that set him free.

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0:00.0	First degree, first degree, first degree, first degree, first degree, the first degree.
0:07.0	Get on the news, get on the trailer, get on the face, please.
0:13.0	These things are supposed to happen in movies, not in real life.
0:17.0	And remember he had colored tattoos on his arm or both arms and on his legs.
0:30.0	And they were really big like scabbed over scratches, not like the cat scratch, but like they had scabbed over kind of thing.
0:37.0	And it just stood out to me because it was on both arms and on at least one of his legs.
0:44.0	Welcome to the first degree that you're kind of podcasting.
0:48.0	You might end up on my name is Jack Fanick.
0:50.0	I'm sitting here with Alexis Lingutter and Billy Jensen.
0:53.0	And just a heads up, this is part one of a two part case.
0:55.0	So if you like to binge all your stuff, you can wait until next week to listen to, but just letting everybody know, don't get mad at us.
1:03.0	Yes.
1:04.0	Don't get mad at us.
1:05.0	No, it never gets worse at us to know in advance.
1:07.0	We're letting you know in advance, but we haven't done a two-parter in a while.
1:11.0	And this one's really worth it.
1:14.0	This one's worth it.
1:15.0	Yeah, I really is.
1:16.0	So we're going to dive into it in a second, but I just wanted to let everybody know that we have an announcement.
1:20.0	We created our first degree TikTok.
1:24.0	And honestly, we've been crushing it.
1:26.0	I think so.
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