First degree, first degree, first degree, first degree, the first degree.

Get on the news, get on the K-grade, get on the safe safe.

These things are supposed to happen in movies, not real life.

So that was a thought in our minds, like, something gruesome happened to her.

We obviously, we want her to be alive, but at this point, that's probably not the case.

Welcome to the first degree, the true crime podcast that you might end up on.

My name is Jack Fanick. I'm sitting so far away from Alexis Lingletter and Billy Jensen.

And I am sick of this distancing, and I want to be with both of you desperately.

I know we were almost ready to do as socially distant in person recording today, but then Billy was around a lot of people on Friday.

So we opted to wait. We'll probably wait another two weeks, safety first, but we did intend to start re-igniting the in person chemistry, even if we can't share glasses and pizza like we normally would.

I know. We're almost there. Um, Billy, what day is it today?

It's National Garbage Man Day. Oh, and that was the first thing I ever wanted to be growing up. I remember three years old, I wanted to be a garbage man because you would see them come to your house in this big, giant truck, and it was just the coolest thing.

So I feel like every boy wants to be a garbage man at some point in their young life.

Probably for that reason. Are there any other good days, Billy? Or is that just that's the end all be all.

No, I stopped at that one. That was, you know, after that, I was done.

Who needs them? Yeah. One is fine. All right. Well, that's easy. After the episode, if you want to stick around for killing time, we are going to talk about Robert Fuller, who was a 24 year old black man that was found hanging from a tree in front of the city hall in Palmdale, California.

And Palmdale for the past few days investigating the entire situation. So he's going to kind of give us a download on what he's experienced and kind of dive into that situation.

So stick around after the show for that. But for now, let's turn down the lights and turn up your anxiety.

Because this could be you.

There are three ideas that we reference quite frequently here on the first degree.

Number one is this idea of the cosmic shuffling of the deck, the randomness of life. And sometimes the randomness of crimes and who is targeted.

Number two is this need that human beings have for reason for an explanation. It says, though, if we had an explanation for why something terrible happened, we might feel better about it, which is honestly rarely the case.

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