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Case Closed

The Night Shift: 9

Case Closed

Macmillan

True Crime, News

4.12K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Tune in for the next 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 Caddy McLean,

0:11.8

Brittany Presley, Gary Teetaman, and Devin Hales.

0:16.4

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

0:22.4

Day 3.

0:25.2

Chapter 51.

0:27.7

Keller.

0:29.7

You got a positive ID on the body yet?

0:32.7

Hal asks, taking a sip from his coffee mug, wincing at the awful brew.

0:38.2

The blinds in his office are open, giving the room a gray hue from the gloomy morning outside.

0:44.9

It'll take a day or two for the DNA results, but her purse was in the barrel, Keller says,

0:51.4

and Atticus is tracking down dental records, so we'll get confirmation soon, but it's her.

0:59.2

Mary Whitaker, wife of Rusty, mother of Vince and Chris, the woman who reportedly ran off

1:09.7

nearly 20 years ago, but was actually rotting inside a steel

1:15.6

drum at a storage unit near the sewage plant.

1:20.6

What's the husband say? Four words, I want a lawyer. I guess he's not such a dumb son of a bitch, after all, unless you count the

1:30.9

years he had to get rid of the body. Hal's phone rings, and he gets an annoyed look on his face as he

1:37.2

waits for his secretary to answer the line. The media's going to go nuts once they learn the victim

1:43.1

is Vince Whitaker's mother.

1:45.3

Let me know when you get a positive ID. We'll need to release a statement. We'll do. As for

1:52.2

notifying the family, we obviously don't know how to reach Vince Whitaker, but he has a younger

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