High Noon

Small Town Dicks

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True Crime, Paul Holes, History, Small Town, Yeardley Smith, Society & Culture, Police

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

It’s Deputy Alia’s day off, but instead of relaxing, she’s called in to negotiate with a barricaded suspect who has murdered his loved one. What follows is a tense and tragic police negotiation, as Alia uses her training and instincts to calm a panicked suspect and bring control to a chaotic barricade standoff.

Deputy Alia has served with her agency for just over 10 years. She spent about 8 years on patrol, five of those as a field training deputy. The last two years she has spent in the training division where she is responsible for cadet training in the academy and agency training as a whole. Alia has also been a negotiator for the last four years, and is on call 24/7 for hostage/barricaded subject calls.

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0:00.0	The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be
0:06.8	wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain
0:13.0	that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching
0:18.7	their peak in the afternoon.
0:23.0	Not in the mood for miserable weather?
0:25.8	Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express.
0:28.7	Sun Express, non-stop sunshine.
0:33.2	Looking for a true crime podcast that goes beyond the headlines.
0:35.6	When I interviewed her 20 years on,
0:41.0	she said that Fred told her there were hundreds of bodies buried in Gloucester.
0:43.8	It's a deeply disturbed love story.
0:50.3	Join Sky News crime correspondent Martin Brunt and journalist Helen Fospero on true criminals.
0:57.7	A weekly deep dive into the cases that shook the world, with insights so shocking they still haunt our imagination today.
0:59.6	This is True Criminals.
1:04.2	Hey, Smalltown fam, it's Yardley.
1:10.9	I want to remind you that if you want access to bonus episodes and regular episodes a day early and ad-free,
1:15.1	and our community forum and other behind-the-scenes goodies.
1:20.1	You got to go to smalltowndicks.com slash superfam, and then in the top right-hand corner,
1:23.7	hit that little tab that says join.
1:27.2	And then listen to the end of today's episode for a sneak
1:30.8	peek at today's new bonus episode.
1:39.2	Hey Smalltown fam, it's Yardley. How are you guys? I hope you're all well and safe.
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