In January of 2022, Deputy Abigail Bieber of the Hillsborough County Florida Sheriff's Office

went away for a long weekend with her boyfriend, Detective Dan Layden, who worked for the same agency.

What happened would put a spotlight on the issues of officer-involved domestic violence

and for Abby's family lead to a mission to stop this from happening to anyone else.

I'm Charlie and welcome to crime lines.

Hello and welcome to crime lines.

This episode is a little different from the cases I usually cover, but it's probably one of the most important ones I will have covered this entire year from the standpoint of change and advocacy

within our system. I want to start by thanking Bruce Bieber, Abigail Bieber's father,

for speaking to me about not just his daughter's case, but about the broader issues. In

addition to my interview with Bruce, the Rising Beyond

podcast had a great interview with him that I will leave linked in my sources. He's also done a few more

podcasts since we spoke, which include the we need more of this and the killer psychologist

podcasts. I will also leave those linked below. Let's get started by

talking about Abigail Bieber, who was born in March of 1991 in Washington, D.C. She grew up in the

area with her parents, Bruce and Sarah, as well as two older brothers, Ben and Daniel.

Abby attended the University of Maryland, and in 2016, she moved down to Florida.

In 2018, she joined the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office and started where most people start as a patrol deputy.

Abby's goal was to eventually work her way up to being a detective

with the Criminal Investigations Division. The Hillsborough County CID has five sections,

and Abby knew where she wanted to work within that, and that was in the special victim section,

primarily helping children who were

victims of abuse. Those were the calls as a patrol deputy that really stuck with her, and it's where

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