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Welcome to the home of Small Town Dicks! Now in its twelfth season, Small Town Dicks goes behind the scenes with real detectives as they tell you how they solved their most important cases. Hosts Yeardley Smith, twin detectives Dan and Dave, and forensic expert Paul Holes ask the essential questions and offer their own insights so the stories always hit close to home. All seasons are available for streaming! Also check out companion show The Briefing Room, which takes you behind closed doors as our hosts explore the complex relationship between law enforcement and the communities they serve.
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    • True Crime
    • 4.7 • 8.4K Ratings

Welcome to the home of Small Town Dicks! Now in its twelfth season, Small Town Dicks goes behind the scenes with real detectives as they tell you how they solved their most important cases. Hosts Yeardley Smith, twin detectives Dan and Dave, and forensic expert Paul Holes ask the essential questions and offer their own insights so the stories always hit close to home. All seasons are available for streaming! Also check out companion show The Briefing Room, which takes you behind closed doors as our hosts explore the complex relationship between law enforcement and the communities they serve.
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    At Last

    At Last

    On August 4, 1986, a young girl took a bike ride through Point Defiance Park near Tacoma, Washington. She never returned home. Investigators conducted a desperate search but came up empty handed. The case went dormant for decades and eventually ended up on the desk of cold-case detective Lindsey Wade. Through the application of emerging DNA testing and hard work, Wade and her fellow detectives were finally able to piece together what happened that day and bring closure to the family.
    Guest detective: Lindsey Wade
    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 that 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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    Season 13 is coming September 22

    Season 13 is coming September 22

    Here comes lucky Season 13 of Small Town Dicks. Episode 1 will drop Friday, Sept. 22!
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    The Briefing Room Out Now!

    The Briefing Room Out Now!

    The Briefing Room with Detectives Dan and Dave is out now! You can find it anywhere you subscribe to podcasts. Episodes drop every Wednesday.
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    The Briefing Room Season 2 is Coming to Aug. 30!

    The Briefing Room Season 2 is Coming to Aug. 30!

    Small Town Dicks presents The Briefing Room, Season 2. The new season launches Wednesday, August 30. The show now has its own feed - so please subscribe on Apple, Spotify, TuneIn, Google, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Or head over to our website, thebriefingroompod.com.
    This show examines the real lives of law enforcement and the challenges they face keeping communities safe. An unvarnished look at what's working and what needs changing. If you want to delve into the minds of true crime luminaries like Roo Powell, Lindsey Wade, Paul Holes, and more, then subscribe now. And tell a friend!

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    12. The Weight Pt. 2

    12. The Weight Pt. 2

    In October 1981 in the small town of Carmel, California, a young mother named Sonia Stone is raped and murdered in her home. The prime suspect is her neighbor, Michael Glazebrook. He is tried for the crimes but the trial ends in a hung jury. In episode two of The Weight, pressed by Sonia’s family and their own sense of duty, the detective who investigated Sonia’s murder and the prosecutor who tried Glazebrook continue to look for any new evidence or lucky break that would trigger new charges. There are moments of hope and years of frustration. Four decades pass and then they get the call that changes everything.
    Guests: Judge Bob and Detective Lins
    Judge Bob served as Monterey County Deputy District Attorney for major crimes from 1972 to 1986. A graduate of UC Davis and Hastings Law School, and a U.S. Army veteran, Bob was elevated to municipal court judge in 1987 and then elected to the Superior Court for Monterey County in 1997. He served on the court until 2006 and now works as a temporary judge, assigned to cases across northern and central California.
    Retired Detective Lins began his 31-year-career in law enforcement when he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Military Police Corps in 1967 after he graduated from UC Davis. He served in the United States European Command in Stuttgart, Germany, and later commanded the first post stockade annex at the now defunct Fort Ord. Later Lins spent two decades as a deputy sheriff with the Monterey County Sheriff’s Department, as a patrol deputy and then as a detective working major crimes. His final years in law enforcement were as a District Attorney Investigator for Monterey County, where his assignments included major crimes and child sexual assault. Over his career, he investigated more than 40 deaths, the majority being homicides.


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    • 1 hr 3 min
    11. The Weight Pt. 1

    11. The Weight Pt. 1

    Today's case spans more than 40 years. In the first of two parts, we take you back to 1981 and the senseless rape and murder of Sonia Stone, a young mother living with her daughter in the tony town of Carmel by the Sea on the California coast. A close friend has found Sonia's body and has called the police. The responding detectives quickly focus their attention on a shifty neighbor whose constantly changing story feeds their suspicions. But this was a time before DNA testing, and the evidence, though solid, is circumstantial. When the prosecutor in the case finally gets some corroboration about the neighbor's whereabouts the morning of Sonia's murder, he brings murder charges against Michael Glazebrook. But an adverse ruling and an unreliable witness derail the trial - and start a decades long search for justice.
    Guests: Detective Lins and Judge Bob
    Retired Detective Lins began his 31-year-career in law enforcement when he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Military Police Corps in 1967 after he graduated from UC Davis. He served in the United States European Command in Stuttgart, Germany, and later commanded the first post stockade annex at the now-defunct Fort Ord in California. Later Lins spent two decades as a deputy sheriff with the Monterey County Sheriff’s Department, as a patrol deputy and then as a detective working major crimes. His final years in law enforcement were as a District Attorney Investigator for Monterey County, where his assignments included major crimes and child sexual assault. Over his career, he investigated more than 40 deaths, the majority being homicides.
    Judge Bob served as Monterey County Deputy District Attorney for major crimes from 1972 to 1986. A graduate of UC Davis and Hastings Law School, and a U.S. Army veteran, Bob was elevated to municipal court judge in 1987 and then elected to the Superior Court for Monterey County in 1997. He served on the court until 2006 and now works as a temporary judge, assigned to cases across northern and central California.


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    • 47 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
8.4K Ratings

8.4K Ratings

Souljoi ,

My New Favorite

I’m so excited to stumble upon this wonderfully told stories. I’m intrigued, and I’m learning things. Yeardley knows what to ask and when. She is quiet and listens to the story being told. It’s so nice to get all of the information with out unnecessary banter and comments from the host. This is my new favorite since Sword And Scale. Thank you.

Devoted Chronfan ,

Excellent podcast!

The entire team handles these tough events with care and empathy for the victims and their families.

DBDaBronx ,

Where are you?

Really enthralled with this podcast. So interesting to hear the detective’s perception of cases. When are they coming back? The Briefing Room is just not the same.

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