Fugitive who faked death nearly killed by Covid / Boy reported dead by mom found alone in motel
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🗓️ 21 January 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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In this week's True Crime Daily Podcast: An American man accused of sex crimes in multiple states reportedly died from cancer in 2020. Now authorities say he faked his death and became an international fugitive, after he's caught in a Scottish hospital with a near-fatal case of COVID. He's set to be extradited back to the U.S.
And a Tennessee woman tells her son's school that her 12-year-old boy died from a seizure. Teachers and friends raising money for funeral arrangements reach a dead end, before an officer finds the child neglected, but alive, in a local motel room.
Author and retired homicide detective Danny R. Smith joins host Ana Garcia.
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| 0:00.0 | Award of warning this podcast explores graphic and disturbing stories and |
| 0:04.6 | includes some strong language. It therefore may not be suitable for our young |
| 0:09.1 | listeners or other folks who may find it disturbing. Hello and welcome to True |
| 0:13.8 | Crime Daily the podcast covering high profile and under the radar cases from |
| 0:17.6 | across the country every week. I am your host Anna Garcia. We are recording this |
| 0:21.2 | on Wednesday January 19th, 2022. Today we are joined by Danny Smith. Danny spent |
| 0:28.8 | 21 years with the LA County Sheriff's Department seven years and the |
| 0:33.9 | homicide unit. And now he is a private investigator, a consultant, a friend |
| 0:38.9 | of the show, but above all, Danny is found a voice for himself as a rather |
| 0:43.8 | prolific writer. Welcome back, Danny. Thanks Anna. I'm always grateful when I'm |
| 0:50.2 | on here. Thank you. Oh, we love to have you. And you know, for those of you |
| 0:53.8 | who follow this program, I met Danny on a murder case of a little girl and we |
| 0:59.3 | met years ago on crime watch daily. So you never know where you're going to find |
| 1:03.8 | people. The adventure continues in fighting for the rights of survivors. I know |
| 1:10.1 | you're very close to the mother of that little girl who was murdered. And so I |
| 1:13.6 | always appreciated that about you. Now you were going to talk about your books |
| 1:17.1 | a little later, but you've got a great headline. You're like, your book is doing |
| 1:21.1 | great on Amazon. Yeah, the the last book that I published is the is a memoir. It's |
| 1:28.4 | the first nonfiction that I published. And I published it September 8th. And so |
| 1:34.5 | here almost four months later, it's still in the top 10 for law enforcement |
| 1:39.1 | memoirs on Amazon. And it's doing great selling off copies and people had |
| 1:45.0 | a lot of great feedback. The reviews have been fabulous on it. So very happy |
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