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Miracles Sent by the Grace of God and With Faith in the Almighty
“I lived with hate…but picked up love and never looked back” James Calvin Tillman “I apologize on behalf of the State of Connecticut. I thank you for your grace and dignity in dealing with this...
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Closing Arguments and the Downfall of a Prosecutor
If you are a survivor of crime, a fan of legal dramas or have read my former blog discussing closing arguments, you understand that the closing argument can be thought of in many ways. It can be the...
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A “Fatal Mistake” by a Former First Lady
What do you think of when former First Ladies come to mind? Prim and proper, altruistic, party givers, hostesses with the mostessses, controversial, political pariahs? All of these and more could apply...
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San Diego’s Coronado Bridge: Suicide Prevention Measures Considered
As of May, 2015, the City Council responsible for the Management of the Coronado Bridge in San Diego gave a unanimous vote to study the type of suicide prevention barrier that would be the most...
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Safe and Found: Who Comes to Look for You?
A Very Special Project – When children are missing, who comes to look for you? How to reach children? How to teach children in the most effective way about the perils and the positives of the...
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Solving the Puzzle – The ‘How’ of Death
If I had to take an educated guess, victims’ families are most interested in the “how” of death, followed by the “why,” which may or may not be revealed or known over time. When a detective,...
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Homicide as a Steady Diet
When an ordinary person such as myself, through nonstop hard work, rises through the ranks to become a minor public figure based upon my personal tragedy, it gives one pause. Why? First of all, no...
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Juvenile Mass Murder and Victims’ Families: Can There Ever Be a Balance in TV...
Journalist Maureen Maher recently presented a particular view concerning the family of Nancy Bishop and Richard Langert. Her “Notebook” likens the heinous killing of two adults and a baby to be to...
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A Cry for Help in the Middle of the Night
The job of a crime victim advocate is by no means a 9 to 5 existence. Fragile human beings often can’t adhere to time schedules. Their lives have spun out of control. Those who are paid advocates...
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Without A Trace – The Original Movie
They Find Horses, Don’t They? What about Children? National resources for missing children began in the mid 1980’s. The formation of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children was...
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How Could You NOT Know? Walking the Tightrope with Sue Klebold
When I heard the back story of the upbringing of Dylan Klebold, one of the inspirations for other mass shootings to come, so much of the horrendous tragedy at Columbine gives me pause. Over a decade...
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Active Shooter
We as citizens are really in trouble when mass shootings become commonplace, a weekly event or even more frequent. But, I can’t stress enough that complacency is a killer too! Unfortunately, we must...
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Murdering Men and their Motive – “No Room for Babies”
Before a man and wife, or same gendered couple, exchange vows of marriage, you would think that they would have a few major conversations about their desire, or not, for bringing children into the...
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The Low Down on Monetary Rewards for Crime
Reward- A sum of money or other compensation offered to the public in general, or to a class of persons, for the performance of a special service. In legal terms, the person promising a reward is...
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Is Fatal Attraction a Good Example of a Female Psychopath?
We know the dangers of women dating psychopaths due to the diligent work of homicide survivor, Sandra L. Brown, M.A. They are not, for the most part, living in the shadows, they are living in plain...
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The CUE Center for Missing Persons – Paving the Way through Grace- for the...
“The number of reported missing individuals has become a silent epidemic with the open roadways, waterways, and scenic wood lines used as open graveyards. They are horrific graveyards to which no one...
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When the Voices of Victims are Silenced
When homicide abruptly occurs, you can barely function. You are out of touch with the reality of it all. Your world is thrown into an unimaginable tailspin. This happened to my family. It happened...
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Three Missing Girls From Connecticut – A Lifetime Ago or was it Yesterday?
Shattered Lives Radio recently featured the cases of three missing girls from Tolland County, CT. Appearing on the episode were family members and investigators who updated listeners on their latest...
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Missing Persons – The Unchosen Path of the Elderly Who Disappear
“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent – that is to triumph over old age.” Thomas Bailey Aldrich Numbers don’t lie… On average, 90,000 people are missing in the USA...
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Secrets of McClellanville and the Death of Brittanee Drexel
When loss of life is involved, particularly in a cruel, violent manner, it is only natural that there is public outrage. People rush to judgment to try to justify their opinions in the heat of the...
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