Episode 272: Roy Dean Ratliff

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

Society & Culture, News, True Crime

4.5 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

On August 1, 2002, two 16-year-old and 17-year-old young women, total strangers, are each parked with male companions up near a popular lovers' lane in Quartz Hill, California. Suddenly, their night is interrupted when the girls are kidnapped by a felon on the run in need of a getaway vehicle. For the next 12 hours, the girls endure a terrifying ordeal, as finding them safe and well becomes a race against time. But with law enforcement on the trail of the highly publicised kidnapping, it’s only a matter of time before the net closes in on the perpetrator. However, the sensational coverage of the case doesn’t end there. In episode 272, Jac and Alexis detail the shocking kidnap and assault of two young women at the hands of Roy Ratliff, and the incredible story of what happens when victims fight back to reclaim their voices in the aftermath of violent crime.

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0:00.0	It's a degree.
0:02.0	First degree.
0:04.0	First degree.
0:05.0	First degree.
0:06.0	First degree.
0:07.0	The first degree.
0:08.0	The first degree.
0:09.0	You see it on the news.
0:10.0	See it on the paper, you see it on Facebook.
0:13.0	These things are supposed to happen in movies, not in real life.
0:16.0	The first time I remember hearing about it there was an Amber Alert issued for it and at the time
0:27.2	Amber Alerts were pretty like uncommon I feel like you didn't really hear about them a lot and
0:31.9	I didn't realize my connection to the case until like a few didn't realize my connection to the case
0:34.5	until like a few days later.
0:36.1	It was all over the news and I remember news helicopters
0:39.6	and stuff in the immediate area
0:41.3	because my house was pretty close to where the
0:43.5	abduction happened and my assumption was that like they probably weren't
0:46.8	going to be found.
0:48.8	Welcome to the first degree of the True Crime Podcast that you might end up on.
0:52.8	My name is Jack Fannick.
0:53.7	I'm sitting here with a Lex's link letter.
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