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The First Degree

PATREON EXCLUSIVE: CRIMINAL EDUCATION

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.510K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In a usually quiet neighborhood in Bakersfield, California, a family of five was murdered in their home on a sleepy Sunday afternoon. At first, police thought a random intruder could be responsible, but then, to the community’s surprise, detectives reveal this murder was not a random killing. Instead, it involved a suspect in another state, a history of abuse allegations and a connection much closer to home.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The second degree

0:06.6

degree. Welcome to the second degree your double dose of depravity. It's me.

0:17.0

Welcome to the second degree, your double dose of depravity. It's me Jack with Lex, you know us.

0:27.0

Unless you are. Unless you don't and then that would be really weird.

0:30.0

That would be weird because I mean we hope that's the case. I mean you want to people to flock here and not really know why I guess but we always just assume that the best of the best are our true crime besties are all here.

0:42.8

Yes, we hope you're having a good day.

0:45.4

I think that today marks a really interesting day

0:49.4

in our first degree, the first the Underground, our Patreon. we are starting to finally take your

0:55.6

submissions so today's case is the first submission that one of you sent in that

1:01.1

I'm gonna read the email in a little bit but we get a lot of like people

1:05.0

asking about cases maybe they're kind of connected to the case but not close enough to be a

1:09.9

first-degree and are really interested in. So a reminder to send in your

1:13.8

submissions through Patreon. You know? And that's what these are. The submissions

1:18.1

we have are like, hey, I'm not close enough for a first degree but I went to

1:21.4

high school with them or I'm not close enough to be a first degree but I went to high school with them or I'm not close enough to be a first

1:23.3

degree but I went to the trial. And so we totally want to validate all of those experiences too because it does feel so

1:31.9

stranger than fiction to be even just sort of connected to something.

1:35.9

So, you know, with our original format we could never cover stuff people requested because people came

1:42.2

to us and that was kind of our rule.

1:44.0

But all bets are off here on Patreon.

1:46.3

Exactly, yeah, even a second or third degree is still out of this world bizarre feeling.

1:51.9

So that's right.

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