Judas Kiss

Small Town Dicks

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

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

A stepfather has seemingly unfettered access to his three young stepchildren—both during his relationship with their mother and long after she leaves him. But when one of the children bravely discloses that she’s been sexually abused, a disturbing truth begins to surface.

Deputy Alia answers the call and works relentlessly to bring the suspect to justice, only to find herself up against the harsh realities of a legal system that doesn’t always work the way we want it to.

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	Hey, Smalltown Fam, it's Yardley. I want to remind you that if you want access to bonus episodes
0:08.0	and regular episodes a day early and ad-free, and our community forum and other behind-the-scenes
0:14.9	goodies, you got to go to smalltowndicks.com slash superfam, and in the top right hand corner hit that little tab that says join
0:26.8	do it.
0:31.1	Hey small town fam it's yardley how are you guys hope you're well. I'm so glad you're here.
0:41.9	The case we're talking about today is a sex abuse case from new fan favorite, Deputy Alia.
0:49.0	And I just want to warn you that it's probably going to piss you off. And not just because the crime is a parent's
0:55.7	worst nightmare, not to mention the worst kind of shame-inducing breach of trust a victim can endure.
1:03.4	I'll explain. I often say that one of the things I've learned over 16 seasons of co-hosting
1:10.4	this podcast is that when
1:12.0	detectives are gathering evidence, the dots need to connect almost perfectly in order for justice
1:18.1	to be served, because the consequence of a guilty verdict can be prison. So there's no room for
1:24.8	shortcuts or trying to force a narrative that isn't supported by the facts,
1:29.4	even if the detective has a hunch that that's the way things happened.
1:33.9	In today's case, Deputy Alia and her team do everything right.
1:39.4	Their evidence is rock-solid.
1:41.6	The victim bravely forthcoming. The offender even makes some admissions.
1:47.6	And yet, the outcome was bullshit. Yeah, if I'm being blunt, and it left me with more questions
1:54.0	than answers. But you decide. Here is Judas Kiss.
2:03.6	Hi there. I'm Yardley. I'm Dan. I'm Dave. And I'm Paul. And this is Smalltown Dix.
2:10.6	Dave and I are identical twins and retired detectives from Smalltown USA. And I'm a veteran cold case
2:16.1	investigator who helped catch the Golden State Killer using a revolutionary
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