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

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We have to exhaust every avenue we have right now to find him. I know that he's using dope and that he's kind of a loose canna.

And that he's unpredictable. There's no way he's going back to prison. And he said the chase is going to be epic.

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Today on Small Town Dicks we have the usual suspects. We have Detective Dan. Good afternoon. Good afternoon you. We have Detective Dave. I am here as well.

I'm so excited that you're here. I'm always excited when you're sitting across the table for me. Likewise. I don't really buy that Dave. I really buy that likewise, but I will. I will take it. And we have the one and only Paul Holes. Hello, hello, how's everybody doing?

I just got to say we absolutely love having you in the fourth chair, pH. You class up the joint. So welcome to episode 13 of season 11. It's a bonus because we usually do 12 episodes of season as you know. So this case comes to us from the OG team.

What I love about this episode is that it captures why we started Small Town Dicks as a podcast. And that was to highlight good police work and sometimes bad and give our listeners a window into how crimes are solved from soup tenets. So here's another brilliant example of good old fashioned detective work.

Detective Dan. I'm handing it to you.

All right. So this happens several years ago. I was a detective at the time. I was working quite a few stolen vehicle cases. There are certain makes and models of vehicles that are very popular among car thieves.

There are certain years. I remember you guys talking about this that were particularly stealable.

So like early 90s Hondas and Toyota's they only made like four or five different variations of their car keys when you've only got that few iterations of what an ignition or a door lock would be like.

And what these car thieves do is they take a blank key that you would go get you know if you're going to make an extra car key for your kids or whatever they take that blank and they use like a Dremel tool to grind down on that key blank and make it really general.

It's called a shave key because it would actually turn over the engine and start the car. So now you don't see so many like early 90s Hondas out there but they still are out there.

So I'm working with Toyota. I mean, it was easy pickings for car thieves. So I'm working a lot of stolen car cases and you start to see patterns. I'm aware of many car thieves who they come and go and usually when they go it means they've gone to prison.

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