Hi, crime junkies. I'm your host Ashley Flowers. And I'm Britt. And the story I have for you today, it actually takes place in our own backyard of Indianapolis. And it's about a case that felt really clear cut right from the get go, but it took some time to get right. And even after justice was served, there are still some questions about the whole

truth of the story. This is the story of Roger Fred Farmer.

This is the story of Roger Fred Farmer. I'm I'm I'm I'm

I'm It's only a couple of days into January 2020 when Detective Larry Krasnoy is contacted by an old friend.

They're not close.

This guy's one of those Facebook friends that you don't really talk to, IRL, but you kind of just like keep tabs on, like, through social media.

Yeah.

But per this guy's message, he's reaching out now because he knows that Detective Krasnoy is a homicide detective with IMPD,

Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.

And he wants to pick his

brain because this friend explains that he has gotten a few strange text messages from one of his

friends, a man named Roger Farmer, who everyone calls Fred. Now, the content of the messages

wasn't all that concerning, but it was actually the way they were written

that is throwing up some red flags because Fred is known for pretty much exclusively using

talk to text. So all of his messages are usually just like one run-on sentence. I know the type.

Yes. But the text that he has gotten recently, they're, you know, using punctuation, proper grammar,

emojis.

Fred does not use emojis.

And to make things more concerning, no one's actually seen Fred since around mid-November,

which is out of the ordinary.

Now, allegedly, he's on a hunting trip, but no one he's talked to seems to know where he's hunting.

Yeah, my spidey senses are tingling.

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