The Mark
Small Town Dicks
Audio 99
4.7 • 10K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In 1994, wealthy Newport Beach businessman Bill McLaughlin is shot and killed in his own kitchen. His girlfriend Nanette Johnston and her secret boyfriend, ex-NFL player Eric Naposki, are immediately suspicious…but the stories don't hold and prosecutors can't make charges stick. The case goes cold, leaving Bill's family without justice for over a decade. Fifteen years later, Orange County DA Matt Murphy picks it up, determined to finally prove what really happened and who arranged it.
Matt Murphy is a legal analyst for ABC News and an attorney in private practice in Southern California. He was a Senior Deputy District Attorney in Orange County California. Matt Murphy spent 21 years assigned to the sexual assault and homicide units where he prosecuted some of the most notorious murder cases in the state of California. He completed 132 jury trials in his career as a prosecutor, including 52 while he was assigned to the homicide unit. He worked as an adjunct professor of law for 7 years.
In addition to his work for ABC news, Mr. Murphy is in private practice representing victims of sexual abuse and some select criminal defense cases. He's also been regularly appearing on NewsNation with Elizabeth Vargas, Chris Cuomo and Ashleigh Banfield providing analysis on Criminal cases in the news. He also one of the co-hosts on MK True Crime with Megyn Kelly and is kicking off a brand-new podcast In the Well with his longtime friend and colleague Mark Geragos. Matt published his first book, The Book of Murder - A Prosecutor's Journey Through Love and Death, in 2024, which was an instant Best Seller, and he is currently drafting his second book.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Smalltown Fam, it's Yardley. I want to remind you that if you want access to bonus episodes |
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| 0:25.9 | join and then listen to the end of today's episode for a sneak peek at today's new bonus episode |
| 0:33.8 | hey small town fam it's episode. |
| 0:42.1 | Hey, small town fam, it's Yardley. |
| 0:43.3 | How are you guys? |
| 0:48.3 | I hope you're all wonderfully well, and I hope you're ready for a cracking episode because retired Orange County Homicide DA Matt Murphy is on the microphone today, and he brings us a murder |
| 0:56.0 | case with a motive as old as time. It's often said that murder is committed for one of three |
| 1:04.0 | reasons, love, money, or pride. Of course, there are also people who are just plain evil out there, but this is not |
| 1:14.2 | one of those crimes. There are no perplexing nuances about the suspect's motives in this case. |
| 1:21.6 | It's just unremarkable, self-serving greed. Matt, of course, tells this story with the energy and insight he's known for, |
| 1:31.0 | both on television and in his memoir, The Book of Murder. And while I would never tell you to sit back |
| 1:38.1 | and enjoy a story about murder, I won't fault you for cheering on the good guys as they methodically follow the |
| 1:45.8 | evidence and the crime comes spectacularly into focus. Here is The Mark. Hi there, I'm Yardley. |
| 1:58.6 | I'm Dan. I'm Dave. And I'm Paul. And this is Smalltown Dix. |
| 2:03.6 | Dave and I are identical twins and retired detectives from Smalltown USA. And I'm a veteran cold case |
| 2:09.1 | investigator who helped catch the Golden State Killer using a revolutionary DNA tool. |
| 2:13.8 | Between the three of us, we've investigated thousands of crimes from petty theft to sexual assault, child abuse, to murder. |
| 2:20.8 | Each case we cover is told by the detective who investigated it, offering a rare, personal account of how they solved the crime. |
| 2:27.7 | Names, places, and certain details have been changed to protect the privacy of victims and their families. |
| 2:32.7 | And although we're aware that some of our listeners may be familiar with these cases, |
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