Sheriff Robert Hardwick: 32 Years Policing, Murders & Florida Justice
Things Police See: Firsthand Accounts
Steven D Gould
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Join host Steven Gould for an in-depth interview with St. Johns County Sheriff Robert Hardwick, a 32-year law enforcement veteran, former homicide detective, police chief, and retired National Guard member. Sheriff Hardwick shares powerful stories from his career, including his first homicide call involving a childhood friend, the bizarre 2008 staged murder case of Summer Smith (where investigators wired a coffin for a confession), and the heartbreaking 2021 Tristyn Bailey murder by Aiden Fucci.
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| 0:00.0 | This is things police see. |
| 0:03.9 | First and accounts with your host, Steve Gold. |
| 0:07.9 | Welcome to the podcast interviews, Act and Retire Police Officers about their most tense, bizarre, |
| 0:12.2 | and sometimes humorous moments on the job. |
| 0:15.7 | It is I. |
| 0:16.2 | Old Ginger Face here with you, as always, everybody. |
| 0:18.6 | Thank you for joining us. |
| 0:19.5 | Thank you for being here. |
| 0:20.4 | Thank you to the YouTube, Sergeant Steve fans that have slid over. face here with you as always everybody thank you for joining us thank you for being here thank you |
| 0:20.9 | to the youtube um sergeant steve fans that have slid over into the podcast and are enjoying the long |
| 0:27.4 | long form content i get a lot of messages from you guys that you're um you're plugging into the podcast |
| 0:33.0 | when you're you know working out or driving in the car and and're digging it. So that makes me very happy and I |
| 0:38.8 | truly appreciate that. And to the longtime listener, if you listen to a lot of episodes and you think, |
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| 0:55.3 | yours truly. All right, guys, excited for today's episode. I have, I'm getting, been getting a lot of |
| 1:02.4 | the big dogs on here. And this guy's got, he's got one hell of a career. And he's still active. |
| 1:07.9 | So he's 32 years in law enforcement total. |
| 1:11.5 | He was the chief of police. |
| 1:13.1 | He was also assistant chief of police for the homicide division. |
| 1:17.2 | He was detective. |
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