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Case Closed

The Night Shift: 11

Case Closed

Macmillan

True Crime, News

4.12K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Tune in for the final full episode of Season 11 of the Case Closed podcast, where we're serializing the audiobook edition of The Night Shift by Alex Finlay. It’s New Year’s Eve 1999. Y2K is expected to end in chaos: planes falling from the sky, elevators plunging to earth, world markets collapsing. A digital apocalypse. None of that happens. But at a Blockbuster Video in New Jersey, four teenagers working late at the store are attacked. Only one inexplicably survives. Police quickly identify a suspect, the boyfriend of one of the victims, who flees and is never seen again. Fifteen years later, more teenage employees are attacked at an ice cream store in the same town, and again only one makes it out alive. In the aftermath of the latest crime, three lives intersect: the lone survivor of the Blockbuster massacre who’s forced to relive the horrors of her tragedy; the brother of the fugitive accused, who’s convinced the police have the wrong suspect; and FBI agent Sarah Keller who must delve into the secrets of both nights—stirring up memories of teen love and lies—to uncover the truth about murders on the night shift. Twisty, poignant, and redemptive, The Night Shift is a story about the legacy of trauma and how the broken can come out on the other side, and it solidifies Finlay as one of the new leading voices in the world of thrillers. We’ll release two new episodes every week beginning April 10th! Make sure to subscribe to Case Closed to get notified each week as episodes drop. We don't want you to miss anything. Be sure to listen or download by May 22nd so you can hear the whole story. Can't wait until next week? You can find The Night Shift wherever audiobooks are sold.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Case Closed.

0:06.0

You're listening to The Night Shift by Alex Finlay,

0:09.6

narrated by Cady McLean,

0:11.8

Brittany Presley, Gary Tiedeman, and Devin Hales.

0:16.4

Let's pick up where we left off last time.

0:21.6

Chapter 66.

0:24.6

Keller

0:26.6

Keller and Arpeggio stand under the artificial light outside a taped-off perimeter surrounding the dig site.

0:33.6

The FBI's emergency response team members look like space travelers in their white coveralls,

0:40.7

orange duct tape sealing the seams between the suits and their gloves and rubber boots.

0:47.2

Keller remembers wearing a similar get-up during her forensic training in Tennessee at the body farm.

0:53.4

The team has set up a grid and is slowly excavating the soil layer by layer,

1:00.3

sifting dirt through a large, box-like sieve for evidence.

1:06.6

Skeletal remains are visible now, elevated as the ERT slowly searches the levels below.

1:15.3

It's a slow process, recovering every bone fragment, every thread of clothing, every piece of trace evidence.

1:26.2

I'd love to see Rusty Whitaker's face when he learns we've found his son,

1:31.0

Joe Arpeggio says.

1:33.0

He almost got a sweetheart deal.

1:36.0

Keller gives him a fleeting smile.

1:38.9

It would be so much more gratifying if the remains of a young man weren't in that hole.

1:45.2

If she hadn't just faced the deceased's brother, who's already been through so much. Or Ella, whose father

1:52.5

was one of the men who put Vince Whitaker in that hole. How'd you get him to crack? Arpeggio

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