S14 Ep8: The Penny Drop

Small Town Dicks

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True Crime, Paul Holes, History, Small Town, Yeardley Smith, Society & Culture, Police

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🗓️ 24 May 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

An inexperienced young detective is sent to a small island in Scotland, where he discovers a string of over a hundred assault cases that have yet to be closed. Everyone on the island - including his superiors - knows exactly who committed the crimes, but they're unable to bring him to justice. Suddenly, Detective Constable Simon is asking questions - and ruffling some feathers in the process. Good old-fashioned detective work helps him break open a case that he says cemented him as a respective detective.

The detective: Detective Constable Simon

Simon joined the force in 1978 and retired in 2006. During his tenure, Simon worked in the drugs and major crimes unit, in the Serious Crime Squad, did surveillance and undercover work, and worked in anti-terrorism, organized crime and corruption. After his retirement, he ran his own investigation business for a number of years. Simon is the founder of LEAP Scotland, part of a global campaign to change laws to end the 'war on drugs.' He has own community radio show and YouTube Channel, and is co-host of the Crime Time Inc. podcast with Small Town Dicks's favorite Tom Woods.

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0:00.0	Hey, small town fam, it's Yardley. How are you guys? I hope you're all well. We have a great
0:13.4	episode for you today. Well, let me just qualify that. Saying anything is great on this podcast always feels a little odd
0:23.8	because we talk about the most horrible things. And today's case is no exception. It involves
0:32.1	multiple sexual assaults. So what I mean is the way this case gets solved is great. And I remember when we were
0:42.6	recording this episode, the fact that our guest retired detective constable Simon, the fact that he
0:49.8	was able to turn chaos into order made me feel a tiny bit safer. Of course, as always, we are
0:59.3	sparing in the graphic details of what the offender in this case actually did to his victims.
1:05.7	But there's no way to tell this story without mentioning some of those details, because it is Simon's fine-toothed
1:13.8	comb assessment of how this attack he's focusing on was carried out that leads him to catch the
1:20.7	bad guy. The PS to this story is, everyone else at Simon's small Scottish agency told him he was barking up the
1:30.5	wrong tree. He had the wrong guy. And by the way, everyone in the small island town of Rothsey
1:37.4	also already knew who the offender was. The cops just couldn't catch him. Simon takes all this into account, but his spidey sense tells him something is off.
1:50.6	So he vows to investigate until he proves himself right or wrong.
1:57.0	Here is the penny drop.
2:02.8	Hi there. I'm Yardley.
2:04.8	I'm Dan. I'm Dave. And I'm Paul.
2:07.4	And this is Smalltown Dix.
2:09.8	Dave and I are identical twins and retired detectives from Small Town USA.
2:14.1	And I'm a veteran cold case investigator who helped catch the Golden State Killer using a
2:18.0	revolutionary DNA tool. Between the three of us, we've investigated thousands of crimes, from
2:23.1	petty theft to sexual assault, child abuse, to murder. Each case we cover is told by the detective
2:29.1	who investigated it, offering a rare, personal account of how they solved the crime.
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