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.

He's be warned that this episode involves the sexual abuse of a minor.

Listener discretion is advised.

I'm Yardley, and I'm Zibi, 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, right, Denicle 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

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