Episode 218: Matthew Trecker

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.5 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

On November 29, 1996, two young men in Farmington, New Mexico, are murdered and mutliated inside a downtown business known as The Eclectic. At first it seems like a robbery gone wrong, but investigators soon deduce it’s more serious. However, despite the brutal nature of the crime, law enforcement is unable to pin down a suspect, and the city is on edge. It wouldn’t be until 4 years later, in December 2000, that investigators would apprehend the killers. Tragically, by this stage, one of the men had killed at least two more people, both from the Navajo nation, and was facing two additional trials. In episode 218, Jac and Alexis detail the frightening case of Robert Fry, a disturbed offender who over several years terrorised the northwest of New Mexico.

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0:00.0	First degree.
0:02.0	First degree.
0:04.0	First degree.
0:06.0	First degree.
0:08.0	First degree.
0:10.0	Get on the news.
0:12.0	Get on the K-3.
0:14.0	Get on the Facebook.
0:16.0	These things are supposed to happen in movies, not real life.
0:24.0	I went to go pick up my paychecks and I looked and there was like a TV monitor, a computer monitor,
0:29.0	sitting outside on the sidewalk with glass everywhere.
0:33.0	It just shattered.
0:35.0	There was no crime scene tape at that time.
0:37.0	And I went upstairs, got my paychecks, and then the time I came down, the place was crawling with cops.
0:41.0	They were rolling out the yellow tape.
0:43.0	Like, what the heck?
0:45.0	And I just was more intrigued by trying to find out, you know, is there anyone that I'm walking around at school with?
0:51.0	It could do this.
0:53.0	I think at the end of the day everyone's devastated by this because it's not the person that you know.
0:57.0	And that's what scary is, you know, you never know who you're walking next to.
1:03.0	Welcome to the first degree, the True Crime Podcast that you might end up on.
1:07.0	My name is Jack Fanny. I come sitting here at the Lexus link letter.
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