Out of Reach
Small Town Dicks
Audio 99
4.7 • 10K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
A brutal murder. A primary suspect. But small mistakes made by fellow officers in the early hours of the investigation hinder Detective Lins’ pursuit of the man he believes is responsible for bludgeoning a woman to death in her driveway. But the investigation continues until Lins receives word that his prime suspect is dead. Or is he? Even in retirement, Detective Lins says he’s not ready to give up the ghost.
The detective: Retired Detective Lins began his 31-year-career in law enforcement when he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Military Police Corps in 1967 after he graduated from UC Davis. He served two years at the United States European Command in Stuttgart Germany, where he was promoted to first lieutenant, and commander of the military police station. Later, as a captain, he commanded the first post stockade annex at the now defunct Fort Ord in CA. His most memorable investigation in Europe was solving the case of the bananas missing from a 4-star general’s kitchen. Det. Lins went on to spend two decades as a deputy sheriff with the Monterey County Sheriff’s Department, first as a patrol deputy and then as a detective working major crimes for 14 years. His final 7 years in law enforcement were as a District Attorney Investigator for the Monterey County DA, where where his assignments included major crimes and child sexual assault. During his law enforcement career he investigated over 40 death cases, with the majority being homicides.\
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:22.0 | 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 |
| 0:52.0 | 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. |
| 1:15.0 | 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. |
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| 2:42.0 | To keep extensive diaries of what he did going all the way back to before he was married. And so we were able to gather all his diaries. |
| 2:53.0 | There's no diaries existing during the period of the murder before or after. It's like those just disappeared. Gone. |
| 3:03.0 | Hi there, I'm Yardley. I'm Dan and I'm Dave and this is Small Town Dicks. Dave and I are identical twins and we're retired detectives from Small Town USA. Together we've investigated thousands of cases from petty theft to sex crimes, from child abuse to murder. |
| 3:23.0 | Every case in our podcast is told by the detective who investigated it, offering a rare personal account of how they broke the case. Names, places and certain details, including relationships have been altered to protect the privacy of the victims and their families. |
| 3:38.0 | And although we're aware that some of our listeners may be familiar with these cases, we ask you to please join us in continuing to protect the true identities of those involved out of respect for what they've been through. |
| 3:48.0 | Thank you. |
| 3:55.0 | Today on Small Town Dicks we have the usual suspects. We have Detective Dave. |
| 4:09.0 | Present. |
| 4:11.0 | Present. Indeed you are. Present. And we have Detective Dan. |
| 4:15.0 | Hello team. Hello you and Small Town fan. We are so pleased to welcome back to the podcast. Retired Detective Lins. |
| 4:25.0 | Hello. Hello. Thank you so much for sitting down with us again. We always enjoy it. It's always my pleasure to be here with you guys. |
| 4:34.0 | Thank you. And so Lins, you have a really interesting case for us today. Tell us how this case came to you. |
| 4:41.0 | Well, as in my previous cases, it seems like I'm always sitting in the office when we get notified. |
| 4:48.0 | So this is July the 21st, 1989. It's a Friday, a little after 8 o'clock in the morning. So regular work day, people going to work. |
| 5:00.0 | And this witness drives by the victim's house and sees the victim standing in her driveway. This witness comes back about 15, 20 minutes later from a little errand she ran and sees the same woman lying in her driveway. |
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