Part 1: No Such Thing as Closure
Small Town Dicks
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4.7 • 10K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
A tip comes in about the possible murder of a young woman. If true, police have a pretty good idea who did it. But solving a case in the right way is far trickier than acting on a hunch. And so begins Detective Brad's long journey to try to find answers for a victim's family. This is Part One of Two.
The guest: Detective Brad
Detective Brad has worked in law enforcement for over 24 years, serving in a wide range of capacities. In the first half of his career, he worked as a patrol officer, a member of the Gang Enforcement Team, a narcotics investigator, and a detective in the Child Abuse Unit. After all of that, he earned a special assignment to a federal Fugitive Task Force, where he served five years, and then returned to the detective squad, where he’s spent the last six years investigating violent crime and serving on the county's Major Crimes Team.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Small Towneown Fam, it's Yardley. How are you guys? We have a jaw-dropping |
| 0:09.3 | episode for you today from a terrific new guest we're welcoming to the podcast named Detective Brad. |
| 0:15.0 | So if you listen to or watch a lot of true crime like I do, |
| 0:22.0 | you've probably heard people in the criminal justice system say |
| 0:26.4 | that there are only three reasons why people commit murder. They are love, money, and pride. I remember the first time I heard that several years ago |
| 0:37.5 | and I remember thinking that is an absurd generalization. There have to be more than three reasons why people kill each other. |
| 0:46.0 | But now, every time I listen to, watch, or read about a true crime case that's a homicide, |
| 0:53.6 | the motive is always one of those three. |
| 0:57.2 | I'd be so curious to know if you also find that to be true. |
| 1:01.0 | In the meantime, I'm not going to tell you which of those motives is the reason for |
| 1:05.1 | today's episode, but I will tell you that this case unfolds like a limited series on your favorite |
| 1:11.2 | streaming platform. |
| 1:13.0 | There is a carnival bear, scuba divers, |
| 1:16.0 | an uncooperative suspect and his guilt-ridden friends |
| 1:19.0 | to name just a few of the details you're about to hear. |
| 1:22.0 | Suffice to say, there are a lot of |
| 1:25.1 | moving pieces in this case and it takes quite a while for police to gather enough |
| 1:29.8 | evidence so that they can finally arrest the killer. |
| 1:34.0 | Because in addition to all of the other things working against them, |
| 1:38.0 | the killer is not unfamiliar with the kinds of clues police will be looking for. |
| 1:43.2 | So he does a fair job of covering his tracks for a while. |
| 1:48.4 | Because this case is such a big bite, we've broken it into two episodes. |
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