Good evening and welcome to Nighty Night with Robbie and Chaudhary. Bedtime stories to keep you awake.

I'm DJ Lubel, the show's producer. Tonight's episode, we continue our story behind the story series, where Robbie

sits down with true crime expert, Sarah Callan. Please enjoy.

Hi and welcome back to Nighty Night listeners. This is our special series on the stories behind the stories.

As always, I have a really exciting guest this week joining me to talk about one of our cases that inspired an episode.

In fact, an episode that she herself wrote. One thing I want to address before we get started and I introduced my guest is that I've gotten a number of messages from folks asking when we are going to get back to our traditional

Nighty Night narrated stories that I'm excited to let you know we will have a slate of them this fall beginning in September. So stay tuned and stay subscribed for those.

But until then, we're going to continue to inform you and slightly frighten you with these true lifetales of real life monsters.

Alright, so this week I'm really excited to welcome a dear friend of mine and our special guest, Sarah Callan.

Let me tell you a little bit about Sarah before I welcome her on the show. Sarah is a former police officer and sex crimes detective with a decade of service and federal and municipal law enforcement agencies.

Right now, Sarah is currently serving as a civilian special investigator for the Mobile County Alabama Sheriff's Office major crime squad and she's leading the investigation into several cold case homicides.

She's also a team investigator for the cold case foundation, the nation's premier nonprofit investigative consultancy group that was founded and led by the FBI's original BSU profilers and was inducted this year as an investigative member of the international

internationally renowned Vidoc Society. And if our listeners are really paying attention, you'll know that Sarah has written two 99 episodes for us, two of my favorites, by the way,

Schrodinger's Beast and the little hairs. So Sarah, welcome to the show. Thank you, Robbie. That was a very generous introduction.

Oh, but I'm not done. There's so much more you've done.

Well, yes, you have. And your experience is incredibly deep. And I want to let folks know how you and I got to know one another because I think that's an important part of the story too.

I think we were both following to other on social media. And then Sarah reached out to me. Was it last year or two years ago now?

No, it was last year. Can you believe that it was it was last spring late last spring in the spring of 2021, right? Sarah reached out to me because at that time, Sarah had become a founding member of this

amazing new project. It's a collaborative research study group that brings together Boston University, the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins.

And it basically brings together folks from all kinds of backgrounds, law enforcement agencies, civilian experts, bringing them together to help solve cold cases and examine like, you know, cases that are brought to them and Sarah reached out to me.

She asked me if I would present on a non say it's case, which I did Sarah hinted a little bit about the conversations we've had. I didn't get to finish the story.

Although, although we kind of formally met through this presentation I gave to this group last year, immediately afterwards I asked Sarah if she would join me in investigating a case for undisclosed, which happened to be the final season that I produced for

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