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.

All Town Fam you get everything Dave said and your hard earned money goes to support our incredible staff behind the scenes to give you this podcast that we all love. So please join us at patreon.com slash Small Town Dicks.

Hey Small Town Fam. So I am thrilled to tell you that this is another episode from Retired Detective Chief Superintendent Roddy from Scotland.

Who a couple of weeks ago gave us keep digging. And I remember listening to Roddy lay out both of his cases in fact and thinking if true crime could be elegant, Roddy makes it so.

You'll also notice as I welcome him back in the real time intro of this episode that he says while it's only been five minutes. And that's because whenever we ask a guest to give up their day off, we'll be back to the next episode.

You'll also notice as I welcome him back in the real time intro of this episode that he says while it's only been five minutes. And that's because whenever we ask a guest to give up their day off or time they'd rather be spending with their family or golfing or walking the dog or whatever.

We try to get a couple of cases with them in one session just so that we maximize their very valuable time with us. So without further ado, let's get to it.

When we talk about rural investigators, rural detectives, in the big cities, they've got resources coming out of their ears, they can throw, he had another team at it, they can throw all the resources and all about.

I think we rural detectives have a real sense of protecting our place.

When a serious crime is committed in a small town, a handful of detectives are charged with solving the case. I'm yardly and I'm fascinated by these stories.

So I invited my friends, detectives Dan and Dave to help me gather the best true crime cases from around the country and have the men and women who investigated them tell us how it happened.

I'm Dan and I'm Dave, where identical twins from small town USA. Dave investigated sex crimes and crimes against children. He's now a patrol sergeant at his police department.

Dan investigated violent crimes. He's now retired. Together we have more than two decades experience and have worked hundreds of cases.

We've altered names, places, relationships, and certain details in these cases to maintain the privacy of the victims and their families.

So we ask you to join us in protecting their true identities as well as the locations of these crimes out of respect for everyone involved. Thank you.

Today on small town dex we have the usual suspects. We have Detective Dave.

Hello, yardly. Hello, David. I'm happy to be here. I'm happy that you're here and we have Detective Dan. Hello, team. Hello, team you and small town fam. We are so thrilled to welcome back a new guest to the podcast fan favorite for us already.

Retired detective chief superintendent, Roddy.

Hello, nice to be back. I don't know because other people know I've only been away for five minutes, but I've been away and been refreshed.

Gone to the restroom as you suggested, yardly. I don't know whether you could see that. I was starting to shift uncomfortably in my chair, but that was good advice and discovered that my wife had been beaking whilst I've been in here.

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