On Monday, October 18, 2010 Sergeant Sean Drenth of the Phoenix Police Department was found shot to death in an alley. What fellow officers found when they responded to the scene continues to haunt them. Sgt. Sean Drenth, a well-liked 12-year veteran, sprawled on his back, dead from a blast from his own police-issue shotgun. Because there is evidence to support suicide or homicide, the case has been classified as undetermined.



--- Anaheim investigator Julissa Trapp is not like other detectives. She’s the only woman on the homicide squad, and a skilled chameleon: undercover cop in vice stings, crime-scene commander, patient confidante of killers. A master interrogator, she invokes her personal experience – and deepest griefs -- as a tool to elicit confessions. When a young woman’s body is found at a trash-sorting plant, Trapp learns the murder may be linked to the disappearance of three other women in nearby Santa Ana. Trapp embarks on a dark journey that brings her face to face with a man who takes “a little piece of her soul.” Listen now at wondery.fm/DTCircumstances


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