Hi Paul. Hi Ardly. How are you doing? I'm doing great. How are you? I'm so good. It's so great to have you on Small Town Dicks. Oh I am so happy to be here. So we want to know how did we persuade you to join us here on Small Town Dicks. Oh it was it was a lot of arm twisting. Not the truth.

Well what has always impressed me about Small Town Dicks is the professionalism. First you have your authenticity. You know Dan and Dave, myself we come out of real crime. We've had real experiences. And so the audience, the listeners are getting from Small Town Dicks. What actually happens out there. Not something that's been glamorized. But also you guys don't exploit the cases. You're empathetic to the victims. And this is what I'm all about. And I know that people who know me from

other projects, they will truly see that when they start listening to Small Town Dicks. That's an incredible endorsement. Dan and Dave tell the fine people about some Patreon. Where Paul Holes also joins us on quite a few nuggety nuggets. For just five bucks a month you'll have access to an assortment of bonus episodes, outtakes, listener questions, special series.

All Town Fam you get everything Dave said and your hard earned money goes to support our incredible staff behind the scenes to give you this podcast that we all love. So please join us at patreon.com slash Small Town Dicks.

I'm Kerry Godliman from Wanderley and novel comes stolen hearts a story about a cop who falls in love with a man who is not only seems to be.

Dills a cop and Dean he's something else entirely.

She said to me about what is but I know something's not right with you. I've got two kids at home I've got a career in the police. I didn't know who I could trust.

I'm so glad you're here with me today. So this episode is a story of brutal domestic abuse. Sadly the circumstances of this savage crime are not new to our team.

Detectives Dan Dave and our guest today retired detective David. This admission leads all three men to speak about the toll it can take on a person's heart and mind.

Day in and day out they see the horrendous things that human beings can do to each other. But all three detectives also conclude that it strengthens their resolve to keep the public safe and that law enforcement is not just a job for them but a calling.

Here is the monster in the house.

Once the scene was secured we did search his vehicle the handsets for the phones are in there and there's also a small grocery bag in there with some essentials like milk butter things like that and these little Debbie cakes.

Just enough for two of the children and these were all relevant details.

When a serious crime is committed in a small town a handful of detectives are charged with solving the case. I'm yardly and I'm fascinated by these stories. So I invited my friends detectives Dan and Dave to help me gather the best true crime cases from around the country and have the men and women who investigated them tell us how it happened.

I'm Dan and I'm Dave where identical twins from small town USA. Dave investigated sex crimes and crimes against children. He's now a patrol sergeant at his police department.

Dan investigated violent crimes. He's now retired. Together we have more than two decades experience and have worked hundreds of cases. We've altered names, places, relationships, and certain details in these cases to maintain the privacy of the victims and their families.

So we ask you to join us in protecting their true identities as well as the locations of these crimes out of respect for everyone involved. Thank you.

Today on small town Dix we're very excited. We have the usual suspects. We have Detective Dan. Good morning. Good morning. You looking well. I feel well.

And we have Detective Dave. Good morning, team. Hello, team member. Yes. And we are so excited to welcome a new guest to the podcast. We have retired Detective David. Good morning. Good morning. A new Dave. A new Dave. If you can believe it, small town fam, we have added another Dave to our awesome roster. That's probably the most Dave and we've had some Scots.

We've had some Scots. We've had a couple of Kyle's now. Yeah. Yeah. I think I'm older than him. I could be a classic Dave. You think you're older than our Detective Dave? Yep. I don't know. I don't know about that. But either way, I love classic David, classic, retired Detective David as your official small town Dix moniker. It's brilliant. We are using that.

So classic, retired Detective David. Tell us how this case came to you. So this one was very early in my career. This was actually within the first year.

So it occurred during my probationary period. As a sworn officer, I recently left the military and joined into law enforcement and had gone to the academy and was operating as an officer on my own. But I still was within my probationary period.

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