The Penny Drop
Small Town Dicks
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4.7 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
An inexperienced young detective is sent to a small island in Scotland, where he discovers a string of over a hundred assault cases that have yet to be closed. Everyone on the island - including his superiors - knows exactly who committed the crimes, but they're unable to bring him to justice. Suddenly, Detective Constable Simon is asking questions - and ruffling some feathers in the process. Good old-fashioned detective work helps him break open a case that he says cemented him as a respective detective.
The detective: Detective Constable Simon
Simon joined the force in 1978 and retired in 2006. During his tenure, Simon worked in the drugs and major crimes unit, in the Serious Crime Squad, did surveillance and undercover work, and worked in anti-terrorism, organized crime and corruption. After his retirement, he ran his own investigation business for a number of years. Simon is the founder of LEAP Scotland, part of a global campaign to change laws to end the 'war on drugs.' He has own community radio show and YouTube Channel, and is co-host of the Crime Time Inc. podcast with Small Town Dicks's favorite Tom Woods.
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| 0:00.0 | Picture this, static cars, idling engines, angry horns. |
| 0:08.0 | Now, picture you, zooming past it all, light and breezy. |
| 0:15.0 | Ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic. |
| 0:20.0 | Book your train journey via Avanti westcoast.co. UK. |
| 0:25.0 | avante west coast feel good travel. Hey Small Towneown Fam, it's Yardley. How are you guys? I hope you're all well. We have a great episode for you today. |
| 0:47.5 | Well, let me just qualify that. Saying anything is great on this podcast always feels a little odd because we |
| 0:57.2 | talk about the most horrible things and today's case is no exception. It involves multiple sexual assaults. |
| 1:07.0 | So what I mean is the way this case gets solved is great. And I remember when we were recording this |
| 1:15.7 | episode the fact that our guest, retired Detective Constable Simon, the fact that |
| 1:22.1 | he was able to turn chaos into order made me feel a tiny bit safer. |
| 1:29.4 | Of course, as always, we are sparing in the graphic details of what the offender in this case actually |
| 1:36.1 | did to his victims. But there's no way to tell this story without mentioning some of those details, |
| 1:43.0 | because it is Simon's fine-tooth comb assessment |
| 1:47.0 | of how this attack he's focusing on was carried out |
| 1:51.0 | that leads him to catch the bad guy. The PS to this story is |
| 1:57.3 | everyone else at Simon's small Scottish agency told him he was barking up the wrong tree, he had the wrong The |
| 2:03.0 | wrong tree, he had the wrong guy. |
| 2:05.0 | And by the way, everyone in the small island town of Rossi |
| 2:10.0 | also already knew who the offender was. The cops just couldn't catch him. |
| 2:16.4 | Simon takes all this into account but his spidey sense tells him something is off. |
| 2:23.0 | So he vows to investigate |
| 2:25.0 | until he proves himself right or wrong. |
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