When a young teenager tells her father that her former stepdad spent several years sexually abusing her when she was younger,

Detective Dave is called in to investigate.

At face value, and given the length of time between the crime and the victim's disclosure,

the case appears to be perilously light on physical evidence.

But Detective Dave has never been one to take things at face value.

Please be warned that this episode involves the sexual abuse of a minor.

Listener discretion is advised.

I'm Yardley, and I'm Zibby, 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. We're identical twins and we're detectives in small town USA.

Dave investigates sex crimes and 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. I'm Detective Dave, and I was a lead investigator on this particular case.

It's a sex abuse case.

When the disclosure came out, it's a girl who's a middle school-aged girl,

but this was pretty typical of most disclosures. It's a delayed disclosure. This sex abuse had

happened years prior, and this girl finally felt comfortable enough to come out with what had

happened to her. Why did she wait that long? Victimology and what we know,

based on my experience, and just dealing with this caseload is victims talk about the worst thing

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