Monster is a case we cover over two episodes. This marks part one of two. Please be warned that the details of this case are graphic and often difficult to hear. It is not an episode for young listeners.

Monsters don't just exist in children's fairytales and nightmares. This really was as monstrous as somebody's conduct could get.

I'm Yardley and I'm Zibi and we're fascinated by true crime. So we invited our friends detectives Dan and Dave to sit down with us and share their most interesting cases.

I'm Dan and I'm Dave, Red Denicle Twins and we're detectives in small town USA. Dave investigates sex crimes at child abuse. Dan investigates violent crimes and together we've worked on hundreds of cases including assaults, robberies, murders, burglaries, sex abuse and child abuse.

Names, locations and certain details of these cases have been altered to protect the privacy of the victims and their families.

It was a quiet afternoon in August of 2008 when this small town police department began to field multiple 911 calls from alarmed residents.

The callers told dispatch they had just witnessed what appeared to be the kidnapping of a 10 year old neighborhood girl as she rode her bike.

This triggered multiple agencies from the area to come together in a frantic effort to catch the kidnapper before he vanished with the girl.

Today on small town dicks we have Sergeant Carl and deputy DA Eric. Yes, hi.

And our usual suspects. Detective Dave, good to see you guys again. Detective Dan and I don't know how you can see him at spot cast.

Oh, cheeky. Okay, I'm resturing a ship here. Carl and Eric, please tell us how this case began.

So in 2008 because of some budget issues my agency actually laid off about 50% of its employees.

So we went from having seven detectives to two. So when this case happened there were only two detectives working and myself and my partner, Detective Dean.

We were pretty much handling only the most serious cases that happened in our jurisdiction. And it was actually at the end of the day we heard that there was several calls coming in to the 911 center that a child had just been abducted.

Obviously, this is one of those kind of cases where it doesn't matter who you work for. If you hear that call, everybody's going to start going.

Right. And what were the details people were giving?

We started getting multiple calls that the bad guy had been following a little girl and then actually struck the little girl who was driving her bike with his car and then grabbed her by the hair and then dragged her back to the car and then threw in the back seat and took off.

What? How do you strike a little girl on a bike without smushing her? Did he just literally like with the car just gently enough knock her off her bike which is diabolical unto itself?

I wouldn't say it was gentle, but it was gentle enough that it didn't smash her or drive over her and he isn't enough forced with the car to literally knock her down.

And was she alone?

She was by herself at that point. How old is she? She was 10 years old.

This was in a residential neighborhood. So the little girl starts screaming, blood and murder and everybody started coming outside to see what was going on.

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