2025-12-03
43 分钟第 123 季 第 1 集
As we get started with our new series on Dungeons & Dragons,
a quick note to listeners that this episode includes brief references to suicide.
Please be advised.
It's September 1979 in East Lansing, Michigan.
William Deere walks into a bar near Michigan State University.
It's a typical college watering hole.
badly lit with a pinball machine, jukebox and nothing but beer on tap.
He claims a table in the far corner and orders a drink.
Deer is 42 years old.
He's over six feet tall with a mustache and big gold rings adorning several of his fingers.
He's a private eye and he's meeting an informant today.
They often ask to meet in dives just like this.
Maybe they want the courage alcohol brings.
or maybe they've just watched too many movies.
Dears working his highest profile case yet, the disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III,
Dallas to his friends, if he had any.
Dallas is a loner, a 16-year-old brainiac studying computers at Michigan State, or at least he was.
He vanished without a trace 19 days ago.
Dallas' parents have hired Dears to find their son.
So far he struggled for leads,