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Heroes Live Forever Podcast

Each podcast pays tribute to law enforcement officers who have made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty. behindbadge.substack.com

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"Heroes Live Forever" - the story of Virginia State...

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2025/08/12

McLean, VA (August 12, 2025) - On February 20, 1989, Virginia State Trooper Jerry Hines was working the late shift when he spotted a motorist driving erratically. Suspecting that the driver was intoxicated, the 28-year police veteran pulled the vehicle over. He contacted the local police dispatcher to run a registration check on the car and to request backup. But when another trooper arrived on the scene six minutes later, he found Trooper Hines lying dead in front of his patrol vehicle. Police

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2:48

"Heroes Live Forever" - the story of Pulaski County...

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2025/07/29

McLean, VA (July 29, 2025) - As a night marshal in Pulaski County, Missouri, Dotson A. Sutton protected and befriended thousands of soldiers and their families stationed at Fort Leonard Wood during World War II. He would frequently have his photograph taken with the soldiers and most would come looking for him before being shipped overseas just to say goodbye to the man they affectionately called “Pop.” His horse, Midnight; his pear-handled revolver; and his friendly banter helped to make “Pop” an

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4:01

"Heroes Live Forever" - the story of New Jersey State...

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2025/07/22

McLean, VA (July 22, 2025) - On the night of August 28, 1985, with 14 years of distinguished police service under his belt, New Jersey State Police Det. Albert J. Mallen Sr. was working on one of the biggest narcotics cases in state history. A drug raid was planned. The target was a modest home in a New Jersey suburb, which was suspected of being one of the laboratories in a multimillion-dollar methamphetamine operation controlled by organized crime in the Philadelphia-Atlantic City area. During

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4:24

"Heroes Live Forever" - the story of the Chicago...

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2025/07/15

McLean, VA (July 15, 2025) - On May 4, 1886, a pro-labor crowd had gathered in Chicago’s Haymarket Square to rally in support of an eight-hour workday. Near the end of the rally, around 10:30 pm, a large number of police arrived and ordered the rally to disperse. That’s when an anarchist tossed a bomb into the path of the advancing police. It exploded, killing Patrolman Mathias Degan, and severely wounding many of the other police officers. Within a few days, six other Chicago patrolmen died

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4:01

"Heroes Live Forever" - the stories of John Adair,...

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2025/07/08

McLean, VA (July 7, 2025) - More law enforcement officers are assaulted and injured responding to domestic disturbance calls than any other circumstance. And many of those calls have resulted in deadly encounters for the officers involved. Oxnard, California Police Officer John Adair was shot and killed on October 7, 1980, while trying to protect a woman from her enraged husband. Officer Adair’s wife was with her husband that night as a civilian ride-along. She witnessed the deadly encounter

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2:30

"Heroes Live Forever"--the story of Federal...

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2025/07/01

On March 26, 1916, Federal Correctional Officer Andrew Turner was stabbed to death by an inmate at the Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary in Kansas. His killer, Robert Stroud, was sentenced to hang. However, President Woodrow Wilson commuted his sentence to life imprisonment. Stroud went on to live nearly another 50 years in the Federal prison system and developed a fascination with birds. Shortly before his death in 1963, Stroud was immortalized in film as the “Birdman of Alcatraz.”Citizens

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2:42

"Heroes Live Forever" - the story of New Hampshire...

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2025/06/24

McLean, VA (June 24, 2025) - On October 3, 1994, an elderly man named James Monsante, who had been grieving over the death of his wife earlier that year, was on the verge of suicide. His son contacted police and told them about the stash of guns his father kept in the home. After Monsante refused to be taken to the hospital for an evaluation, the New Hampshire State Police SWAT team, led by Sgt. James Noyes, was called in to negotiate a peaceful end to the standoff. Sgt. Noyes spent most of the

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"Heroes Live Forever" - the story of New Orleans...

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2025/06/17

McLean, VA (June 17, 2025) - Nicola Cotton, a 24-year-old New Orleans police officer was responding to the call of a possible rape suspect on the loose. She found a man sitting on the curb who fit the description of the possible rapist. As she attempted to arrest and handcuff the man, he violently resisted. After choking and striking Nicola in the head, the man grabbed her .40 caliber Glock service weapon from her holster and fired 15 fatal shots. It turned out that Nicola’s killer, Bernel

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3:47

"Heroes Live Forever" - the story of John Novabilski...

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2025/06/10

McLean, VA (June 10, 2025) - On April 26, 1995, Prince George’s County (MD) Police Corporal John Novabilski was working an off-duty job as a security guard for a local liquor store. He was in uniform and sitting in his marked patrol cruiser around 2:30 a.m. when a man walked up to his car with a MAC-11 assault pistol and opened fire. Corporal Novabilski was shot 11 times and died. The assailant grabbed the officer’s service weapon and ran off. A little over a month later, FBI Special Agent

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3:14

"Heroes Live Forever" - the story of D.C....

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2025/06/03

McLean, VA (June 3, 2025) - On October 6, 1995, Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Officers Scot Lewis and Keith DeVille were flagged down by a motorist who needed help. The two officers were just seven minutes from the end of their shift. It turned out that the man who flagged them down could neither speak, nor hear. While the two officers waited for an interpreter to arrive, another motorist drove up and pretended to know the deaf man. He engaged in some friendly conversation, then got out

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3:41

"Heroes Live Forever" - the story of Four Police...

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2025/05/20

McLean, VA (May 20, 2025) - In 2009, 15 law enforcement officers were shot to death in just five separate multiple-death incidents. One of those tragedies occurred just after 8 am on Sunday, November 29, when a lone gunman walked into a Pierce County, Washington coffee shop and opened fire on four officers from the Lakewood, Washington Police Department. The fallen heroes—Officers Greg Richards, Tina Griswold, Ronald Owens and Sgt. Mark Renninger--were going over plans for their upcoming shift.

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4:40

"Heroes Live Forever" - the story of NYPD Officer...

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2025/05/13

McLean, VA (May 13, 2025) - Around 3:30 a.m. on February 26, 1988, a 22-year-old New York City police officer named Edward “Eddie” Byrne was sitting alone in his marked patrol car guarding the witness in a drug case. That’s when a car drove up. Two men got out of the car, while two others acted as lookouts. When one of the men knocked on the passenger-side window of Eddie’s patrol car, his accomplice shot the young officer in the head five times. The four killers were apprehended within a week

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A Father and Son Were Killed in the Line of Duty on...

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2025/05/06

McLean, VA (May 6, 2025) - Following the 2014 shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, the many months leading up to National Police Week in 2015 were filled with a troubling amount of anti-cop sentiment—and charges of racial bias in policing. So, I decided to hit the issue head on during my speech at the 2015 Candlelight Vigil at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial. I told the story of Michael Davis Jr., a detective with the Placer County (CA) Sheriff’s Office. During a

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4:29

"Heroes Live Forever" - the story of U.S. Secret...

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2025/04/29

McLean, VA (April 29, 2025) - It was not until the assassination of President William McKinley in 1901 that the Secret Service began protecting the President of the United States on a full-time basis. A Secret Service operative by the name of William “Big Bill” Craig was assigned to protect McKinley’s successor, Theodore Roosevelt. Craig seemed the perfect fit for the job. He was a noted athlete with a giant physique and was an avid boxer. The President never went anywhere without him. On

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"Heroes Live Forever" - the story of Franklin...

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2025/04/22

McLean, VA (April 22, 2025) - For two decades, Franklin Township (NJ) Police Sgt. Ippolito “Lee” Gonzalez distinguished himself as a no-nonsense cop who had a keen eye for suspicious activity and never shied away from following his instincts. The night of May 6, 1995, was no different. About 10:30 p.m.—just a half hour before the end of his shift—Sgt. Gonzalez pulled over a suspicious vehicle occupied by two men: Robert “Mudman” Simon, and Charles “Shovel” Staples. Both were members of the

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2:38

"Heroes Live Forever" - the story of two D.C. MPD...

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2025/04/15

McLean, VA (April 15, 2025) - By all accounts, Sgt. Clifton Rife II was a hardworking officer who had no fear of the streets. One police official said, “You got so used to him doing a great job that it just became the standard.” During the early morning hours of June 2, 2004, Sgt. Rife was off duty when he was confronted by a would-be 16-year-old robber. The two exchanged gunfire. The 16-year-old hoodlum died at the scene, and Sgt. Rife died a short time later. To the D.C. police veterans that

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4:21

"Heroes Live Forever" - the story of Cortez (CO)...

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2025/04/08

McLean, VA (April 8, 2025) - At the age of 42, Dale Claxton had grown tired of his job selling and repairing tires. He wanted to do something more meaningful with his life. It wasn’t long before he was being sworn in as a Cortez, Colorado, police officer. He had finally found his calling. On May 29, 1998—three years into his police career—he received a report of a stolen water truck. Soon after, he spotted the truck and pulled it over. Before Patrolman Claxton could even unbuckle his seatbelt or

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3:14

"Heroes Live Forever" - the story of Muncie (IN)...

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2025/04/01

McLean, VA (April 1, 2025) - On December 28, 1990, Muncie (IN) Patrolman Gregg Winters arrested a man for public intoxication. The man was sitting in the back of Patrolman Muncie’s police vehicle, on his way to jail, when he pulled a concealed handgun and shot the 32-year-old husband and father of two in the back of the head and neck. At his trial, the cold-blooded cop killer, spouted one excuse after another. He blamed his actions on being drunk, saying, “It’s a tragic situation, a situation

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3:22

"Heroes Live Forever" - the story of Fond du Lac (WI)...

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2025/03/25

McLean, VA (March 25, 2025) - On March 20, 2011, Fond du Lac (WI) Patrol Officer Craig Birkholz, 28, responded to a call that a fellow officer had been shot. As Officer Birkholz arrived on scene and exited his vehicle, the suspect emerged and ambushed him, shooting him fatally in the upper chest—right above his ballistic vest. Officer Ryan Williams and his K-9 partner Grendel were also shot, and another officer was injured. Remarkably, all three survived. A couple of years before he was shot and

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"Heroes Live Forever" - the story of Meridian (MS)...

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2025/03/18

McLean, VA (March 18, 2025) - At one in the morning on December 28, 1985, Meridian, Mississippi Police Officer Alma Walters arrived on the scene of a domestic disturbance call. Catherine Smith had called police when her boyfriend, John Lanier, became enraged and pushed her out of their house. When Officer Walters arrived, Lanier had passed out. The 29-year-old officer awakened him and told him to go for a walk with her to cool off. When they got to the driveway a fierce struggle ensued. Officer

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