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Small Town Dicks

S14 Ep11: You're It

Small Town Dicks

Audio 99

True Crime, Paul Holes, History, Small Town, Yeardley Smith, Society & Culture, Police

4.79.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Detective Lindsey is back with a case she's called her "worst nightmare." An unknown man has committed a series of home break-ins that include terrorizing of victims and violent sexual assaults. Each time, the suspect only gets more brazen and police are anxious to find a lead. Working with a task force of local agencies, and a specialist who has learned the art of tracking human, Lindsey and her team rush to stop the perpetrator before anyone else gets hurt.


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The detective: Det. Lindsey

Past bio - Lindsey served as a Tacoma Police Officer for twenty-one years. During her fourteen years as a detective, she investigated sexual assaults, child abuse, missing persons, and homicides. In 2010, Lindsey discovered serial killer Ted Bundy’s DNA was not in CODIS. She worked with authorities in Florida to track down a sample of Bundy’s DNA and finally entered it into the national database in 2011. In 2012, Lindsey’s work on collecting DNA from convicted sexual predators in Washington state who’d slipped through the cracks led to an arrest in the 1980 homicide of a teenage girl. Lindsey retired in 2018 as the Tacoma Police Department’s cold case detective and joined the Washington State Attorney General’s Office as a senior investigator assigned for the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative. She is a former member of the FBI ViCAP National Advisory Board and teaches child abduction response and cold case investigations for the National Criminal Justice Training Center at Fox Valley Technical College. Lindsey has been a speaker at numerous law enforcement conferences around the country, lecturing on cold cases, sex crimes, DNA, and child abduction response. She recently published a true crime memoir titled, “In My DNA: My Career Investigating Your Worst Nightmares”.



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0:00.0

Hey, small town fam, it's Yardley. How are you guys? I hope you're all doing wonderfully well.

0:10.2

You'll be happy to hear that fan favorite detective Lindsay Wade is back with us today.

0:16.5

As always, she brings us a case that highlights how shocking a day in the life of a sex

0:22.3

crimes detective can be, including the harrowing challenge of being one step behind a serial

0:28.6

rapist who is terrorizing multiple jurisdictions. I remember when we were recording this

0:35.0

episode thinking there are a lot of similarities between the way Lindsay's offender evolved and the way Joseph DiAngelo, the Golden State Killer, evolved.

0:45.1

So it was fascinating to hear Paul's thoughts on how Lindsay's suspect was operating during his spree and where he was very likely headed had he not been caught.

0:55.3

If you're a longtime listener to the podcast, you know we are always sparing in the details

1:01.4

of what the victims endure during any sexual assault we cover.

1:05.6

But in this case, it doesn't mitigate much of the horror.

1:09.3

Because the way this offender chose his victims,

1:12.5

the amount of reconnaissance he did,

1:15.1

is every woman's worst nightmare.

1:17.3

And it made me think how sometimes it's impossible to feel safe.

1:22.6

Here is, you're it.

1:28.4

Hi there, I'm Yardley.

1:30.5

I'm Dan. I'm Dave.

1:32.1

And I'm Paul.

1:33.1

And this is Smalltown Dix.

1:35.4

Dave and I are identical twins and retired detectives from Smalltown USA.

1:39.7

And I'm a veteran cold case investigator who helped catch the Golden State Killer using a revolutionary DNA tool.

1:45.6

Between the three of us, we've investigated thousands of crimes, from petty theft to sexual assault, child abuse, to murder.

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