On February 7, 1981, Lt. Ray Richard “Joe” Clark was inside his Marietta, Ohio home when a bullet shattered the kitchen window and killed him. A respected Washington County Sheriff’s lieutenant, Clark had spent his life in law enforcement—only to become the victim of one of Ohio’s most haunting cold case murders.

For more than three decades, the case sat unanswered. Then a cold case investigation involving the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, Washington County authorities, and long-buried witness testimony finally pointed back to one of their own: Mitchell “Mitch” Ruble, a former deputy with a grudge, a motive, and a secret that had survived for 33 years.

Kris and Rob unravel the murder of Lt. Joe Clark, the Marietta, Ohio cold case that stunned a sheriff’s department, exposed old resentments, and proved that even after decades, the truth has a way of crawling out of the dark.

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