Betsy Shepard

It's about an L.A.

County Sheriff's deputy named John Adjaye who went missing in the Mojave Desert back in 1998.

Nearly 30 years later, the sheriff's department says Ajay's disappearance is still a mystery.

But whistleblowers say the sheriff's department is covering up what happened to the deputy, that he was murdered in the desert, where meth labs, outlaw biker gangs, and dirty cops go unchecked.

The show's got it all, and I think you're going to dig it.

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Is this okay?

Yeah, I'll turn it down just a little bit because sometimes you get animated.

I get pissed off.

Pissed off old cop.

This pissed off old cop is Mike Bauer.

My last assignment was Major Crimes Bureau, Detective Division, L.A.

Bauer spent 33 years climbing the ranks of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

And he looks the part of a retired captain.

His white hair and mustache are neatly groomed.

And his eyes are permanently fixed in a look that says, do not fuck up on my watch.

And he's pissed off because of something that happened to one of his guys on his squad back in the summer of 1998.