is lou smit. "i follow the evidence. i've got to follow the evidence. doesn't matter what my opinion is, what i might think, i follow the evidence." and he did. and that takes a lot of discipline. >> smit had a history of closing cases. >> he had such tenacity. he was a bulldog. once he got something in his mind, you know, once he got the reins in his teeth, he was not letting go. >> lou smit was my father. he was just known as the detective that solved cases. >> when he got to a murder scene, he spent time dictating everything he saw. where the sun was in the sky, what the weather conditions were like, what the neighboring houses looked like. >> the legend of lou smit is now the stuff of podcasts with granddaughters jessa and lexi unspooling the crime for a new generation. >> he advocated for the victim and stood in their shoes. >> so that's why we've chosen "the victim's shoes" as our podcast name. prior to this case, lou smit had investigated over 200 homicide cases that led to arrest and convi