Episode 308

Sword and Scale

Incongruity

True Crime, Entrepreneurship, Business, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4 • 61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In the tight-knit town of Arlington, Indiana, 17-year-old Valerie Tindall went missing on a seemingly ordinary day. At first glance, everything appeared routine - she had told her mother she was going to work. But as detectives started to dig deeper, it became clear that something was lurking just beyond the obvious. From suspicious sightings of a black Nissan to cryptic messages sent after her disappearance, investigators were led down a path of false leads and half-truths.

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0:00.0	Sword and scale contains adult themes and violence and is not intended for all audiences.
0:06.3	Listener discretion is advised.
0:14.3	You can start smelling the decomposition.
0:17.9	And it's a smell.
0:18.6	Anybody's ever smelled it, it's a smell that will never exit their brain.
0:23.6	I think some of you are a little confused.
0:26.7	You see, SNS isn't a true crime podcast.
0:29.6	It's a bus.
0:31.0	Yeah, a bus.
0:32.6	You can't change its trajectory.
0:34.7	You can't change its makeup.
0:37.0	Can't make it blue instead of yellow. And you can't change its makeup, can't make it blue instead of yellow, and
0:40.3	you can't change the driver.
0:43.3	I'm driving.
0:51.3	I mean, you can get off the bus, you can get on the bus. That's about the extent of your power here, Karen. Thank you. Basically, you're not in charge here.
1:23.4	So sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up.
1:26.6	Try to listen for once in your miserable life. Oh yeah, I almost forgot.
1:51.6	This is episode 308.
1:53.5	And if you don't know what podcast you're listening to,
1:57.0	I think that's your problem.
2:36.6	Yeah. I think that's your problem. The Tindolls are an ordinary middle-class family living in Arlington, Indiana, which is part of Rush County.
2:41.6	Rush County is about 40 miles southeast of the state capital of Indianapolis.
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