Timothy Dean - Empty Inside

Timothy Dean - Empty Inside

From Obscura: A True Crime Podcast by Justin Drown

June 9, 2026 · 53 min

About this episode

The episode discusses a shocking double murder in the small village of Sodus, New York, and its impact on the community.

There is a village in the apple country of western New York called Sodus, up in Wayne County near the south shore of Lake Ontario, about thirty miles east of Rochester. This is fruit-belt land, orchard and muck field running back from the lake, roadside stands selling cider in the fall, the big cold lake holding the frost off the trees in spring. In October the orchards go heavy and the light comes in low and gold across the drumlins, the long humped hills the glaciers left behind. A few thousand people, one central school the whole area feeds into, the worst trouble in a given year usually a bad wreck out on Route 14. The kind of place where a double murder in a driveway on a sunny Monday afternoon does not just grieve people, it cracks the basic understanding they have about where they live. On the twenty-second of October, 2018, a Monday, that understanding broke. It broke on a short residential street called Carlton Street, a block of modest houses near the Sodus Central School, the kind of street where people leave the doors unlocked and the kids ride bikes in the road. At a little after three in the afternoon, in full daylight, with neighbors home and children about, a…

People in this episode

Host: Justin Drown

Topics covered

  • true crime
  • murder
  • small town
  • community impact
  • crime scene

Keywords

  • Sodus
  • double murder
  • October 22, 2018
  • crime scene
  • Wayne County

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Sodus, Wayne County, Lake Ontario, Rochester

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