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The First Degree

Episode 329: Timothy Haslett Jr.

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.510K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

On October 7, 2022, a 22-year-old black woman is frantically knocking on doors in a suburban neighborhood on the outskirts of Kansas City, Missouri. When police arrive, they find the distressed woman with duct tape around her neck, wearing a trash bag, and a metal collar with a padlock. She tells police she had been held against her will and sexually assaulted by a man at a home nearby. But this is just the beginning. City law enforcement knows - but has consistently denied - that local black women have been going missing. When another victim turns up murdered, the lies and cover-ups begin to be exposed. And things turn uglier when a retired former detective is implicated in other local murders, with misconduct and malfeasance more prevalent than many realised. In episode 329, Jac and Alexis detail the alleged case against Timothy Haslett Jr, and how his supposed crimes have been enabled by a police department rife with systemic racism.

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The first degree.

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First degree.

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First degree.

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First degree.

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First degree.

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The first degree.

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You see it on the news.

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You see it on the paper.

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You see it on Facebook.

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These things are supposed to happen in movies, not in real life.

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I felt sick.

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I don't know if I want to cry or if I want to throw up or what the hell was going on.

0:30.4

So it's like, was there something that he was already starting on in the basement of that house?

0:36.6

All parties are innocent until proven guilty.

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Welcome to the first degree, the true crime podcast that you might end up on.

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My name is Jack Fannick.

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I'm sitting here with Alexis Linkletter, and Alexis started this episode out, and it really

0:50.7

screwed me up.

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I messed up the intro.

0:54.1

Immediately. We had to redo it. This has never

0:56.6

happened before. Well, when you don't cover unadjudicated cases often, and then you have to do a little

1:03.5

disclaimer at the top, this, this happens. We're kind of on autopilot. We've done what, like 300 and something

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