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Hi, all. We're still waiting for the results from Sandy's evidentiary hearing, and I just want to thank everyone for the response to season three of the podcast.

We're so close to finding out how this story will unfold, and we'll have some really exciting interviews to share over the coming weeks.

First, we wanted to air this shocking interview we did while in Chilicothe with former journalist Rick Hardigan.

Rick was a reporter in St. Joseph, Missouri at the time of Patricia's murder.

His story about covering Sandy's case, and more importantly, the threats he received from the police department,

is pretty incredible. Here's our full interview.

My name is Rick Hardigan. I'm retired, and I live in St. Joseph, Missouri.

Okay. And what are you retired from?

I am retired from the St. Joseph, Missouri Public School District. I worked as a chief operating officer there.

So, Rick, how did you first get involved in the case?

Well, back in 1980, I had transitioned from the local newspaper to KQTV, which is the ABC affiliate in St. Joseph. And in November that year was the Patricia Jeske Homicide, and I went and

covered that story. Tell me about what and I went and covered that story.

Tell me about what it was like to cover that story.

Well, murder cases were kind of new to me.

At the time, I'd been a sports editor, so this was something a little bit different.

It was a grizzly scene.

It was, again, it was new to me.

Back in the day, it's kind of hard to imagine now

when you watch the NCIS shows and things, but a reporter like myself, you know, went into the

crime scene and talked to the detectives as they worked the scenes. And so we were very hands-on.

It was a pretty unique, a new experience, and I was able to watch firsthand how

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