Hi Paul. Hi Ardly. How are you doing? I'm doing great. How are you? I'm so good. It's so great to have you on Small Town Dicks. Oh I am so happy to be here. So we want to know how did we persuade you to join us here on Small Town Dicks. Oh it was it was a lot of arm twisting. Not the truth.

Well what has always impressed me about Small Town Dicks is the professionalism. First you have your authenticity. You know Dan and Dave, myself we come out of real crime. We've had real experiences. And so the audience, the listeners are getting from Small Town Dicks. What actually happens out there. Not something that's been glamorized. But also you guys don't exploit the cases. You're empathetic to the victims. And this is what I'm all about. And I know that people who know me from

other projects, they will truly see that when they start listening to Small Town Dicks. That's an incredible endorsement. Dan and Dave tell the fine people about some Patreon. Where Paul Holes also joins us on quite a few nuggety nuggets. For just five bucks a month you'll have access to an assortment of bonus episodes, outtakes, listener questions, special series.

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The phone rang and I picked up the phone. The voice on the end of the phone said you need to have a look at Alan Smith and the phone hung up. So this is one of these investigations that starts with the

single one line comment. And then a couple of years later turns into quite a profound investigation with far ranging effects.

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Today on Small Town Dicks. I'm very excited. We have the usual suspects. We have Detective Dan.

Hello there. Hello there. And we have Detective Dave.

I thought for sure you're going with me first off, but good to be here. I'm excited about this one.

I know I didn't go with you. I sensed that you thought I was going to go with you first. And so I thought I'm just going to keep him off kilter.

That's my job. And Small Town FAM. I hope you're sitting down because we are so pleased to welcome a new guest to the podcast.

Retired Detective Senior Sergeant Peter. Hi, Yardley. How are you?

So well. Thank you so much for joining us. My pleasure. That was the right title though.

Wasn't it retired Detective Senior Sergeant? Yes, that's correct.

Not like a sergeant in the US and people are like a lieutenant or a captain.

Yeah, that's probably equivalent in the UK. What they do with Detective Sheffield Spectral, Detective Superintendent level, Detective Senior Sergeant's run squads, special squads, you know, homicide squads.

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