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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 Philadelphia...

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2025/03/11

McLean, VA (March 11, 2025) - During the month of October 2007, four Philadelphia police officers were shot, bringing the total to 29 for the year. One of those officers was Charles “Chuck” Cassidy. He was a beloved officer in the neighborhood he patrolled and despite the rampant drug dealing and violence, Officer Cassidy was determined not to let the street thugs take over his city. His constant presence comforted the shop owners who were on edge. On October 31, 2007, the 25-year police veteran

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

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2025/03/04

McLean, VA (March 4, 2025) - The law enforcement profession was not kind to Angela Davis. Her husband, Charles “Charlie” Davis, was a New York City police officer. On December 21, 1996, Charlie was moonlighting during his off-duty hours as a security guard for a Queens check-cashing business. He wanted to give his family an extra special Christmas. As Officer Davis and the owner of the store, Ira “Mike” Epstein rolled up the metal gate to open the store about 7 a.m., four armed bandits forced

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"Heroes Live Forever" - the story of New York City...

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2025/02/25

McLean, VA (February 25, 2025) - Isaac Smith was a man of many talents: Revolutionary War hero, farmer, doctor and politician. He was also a New York City deputy sheriff. When he got the call that another officer needed backup with an unruly drunk, Deputy Smith was quick to respond. It would cost him his life. While attempting to arrest the man for disturbing the peace, Deputy Smith was shot and killed. His death occurred on May 17, 1792. Over more than two centuries his death was never

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

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2025/02/18

McLean, VA (February 18, 2025) - Shoot, or don’t shoot. That is the question every police officer has to face when they are confronted by a person with a gun. They usually have less than a second to make the decision. A Washington, D.C., police officer was faced with that choice on the evening of February 7, 1995. He and his partner were barely 10 minutes into their shift when they spotted a man holding a gun. They slammed on the brakes of their patrol car, turned on their flashing lights and

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3:36

"Heroes Live Forever" - the story of Skagit (WA)...

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2025/02/11

McLean, VA (February 11, 2025) - On the afternoon of September 2, 2008, Isaac Zamora had gone into a neighbor’s house, stealing their rifle and shotgun. His own mother called police to report the trespassing and theft. Skagit County (WA) Sheriff’s Deputy Anne Jackson responded. When the 40-year-old deputy did not answer a radio status check, another deputy went to investigate. He found Deputy Jackson shot to death, along with another murder victim at the same location. Three other murder

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"Heroes Live Forever"--the Onion Field murder of Los...

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2025/02/04

McLean, VA (February 4, 2025) - On March 9, 1963, two Los Angeles police officers, Karl Hettinger and Ian Campbell, pulled a vehicle over for making an illegal U-turn. Unbeknownst to them, the two individuals in the vehicle were two psychopaths and life-long criminals by the names of Gregory Powell and Jimmy Lee Smith. With the element of surprise on their side, one of the thugs pulled a gun on Officer Campbell. He calmly told his partner, “He has a gun in my back. Give him your gun.” Officer

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3:43

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

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2025/01/28

McLean, VA (January 28, 2025) - Ed Toatley wanted to make a drug buy and he knew a local drug dealer named Kofi Orleans-Lindsay who could get him what he needed. At around 8 p.m. on October 30, 2000, Toatley and Orleans-Lindsay met at a Maryland subway station to do the transaction. They left for the stash house where Orleans-Lindsay kept his drugs. Toatley gave the drug dealer $3,500, but no drugs were exchanged. Instead, the twice convicted felon pulled a gun and shot the undercover Maryland

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"Heroes Live Forever" - the story of Bureau of Indian...

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2025/01/21

McLean, VA (January 21, 2025) - On September 5, 1998, Captain Jack L. Spencer Sr., 55, of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, was killed in an automobile crash in rural Nevada while on duty. His son, Creighton, who also became an officer with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, had attended National Police Week ceremonies in Washington, D.C., the year his father’s name was added to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial. He was so moved by the event that he told his mother, Lancy Kay Spencer, “I

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8:12

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

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2025/01/14

McLean, VA (January 14, 2025) - On April 19, 1995, a terrorist bombing at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building killed 168 people and injured 680 others. Eight of those who died that day were Federal agents based out of the Murrah Building. It was the deadliest day in Federal law enforcement history. Timothy McVeigh, an anti-government extremist and the mastermind of the bombing, was sentenced to death and executed in 2001. Accomplice Terry Nichols was sentenced to life without parole, and

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"Heroes Live Forever" - the story of South Carolina...

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2025/01/07

McLean, VA (January 7, 2024) - It was around 10 p.m. on April 19, 1994, when a speeding motorcyclist caught the attention of South Carolina State Troopers Randy Hester and James Dean. In separate patrol cars, each of the troopers gave chase. During the first two minutes of the high speed pursuit, Trooper Hester lost control of his vehicle. He went off the road, hit a drain culvert and flipped at least eight times. The 26-year-old trooper died 15 hours later. The motorcyclist was never seen

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3:45

"Heroes Live Forever" - the deadliest days in law...

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2024/12/31

McLean, VA (December 31, 2024) - On November 24, 1917, a young boy named Sam Mazzone was summoned to take a suspicious package left outside a church to Milwaukee police headquarters. It turned out to be a bomb planted at the church by anarchists in an act of revenge. As a group of detectives filed out of roll call and began examining the package, it exploded, killing nine officers. For nearly 90 years, the Milwaukee bombing incident was the deadliest in law enforcement history. But history would

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"Heroes Live Forever" - the story of Phil Lamonaco...

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2024/12/24

McLean, VA (December 24, 2024) - New Jersey State Trooper Philip Lamonaco was shot and killed during a traffic stop on December 21, 1981. His family was in the midst of making Christmas cookies when they received word of his death. He was buried on Christmas Eve. That was the tragic part of his story. But there was another inspirational part of the story—about helping and healing. His wife, Donna, put the shattered pieces of her life back together. She became a leader in the effort to build

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"Heroes Live Forever" - the story of Black Hawk...

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2024/12/17

McLean, VA (December 17, 2024) - It was just a week before Christmas and Black Hawk County, Iowa, Deputy W. Fay Dilworth still had not found time to purchase and decorate the tree that he knew his six-year-old daughter, Betty, wanted so much. So, he began his work that Friday by going to a Christmas tree lot and picking out a particularly handsome tree and left instructions to have it delivered to his home that evening so he could decorate it with young Betty. Sadly, though, he never made it home

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

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2024/12/10

McLean, VA (December 10, 2024) - Boston Patrolman James O’Leary was working a security detail at the local theater when he heard the loud cries for help from a liquor store owner who had just been beaten and robbed at gunpoint. The 16-year police veteran leaped into action. He commandeered a passing car and order the driver to chase down the fleeing robber. When he got close, Patrolman O’Leary jumped out and yelled, “I’m a policeman! Stop!” The armed robber turned and fired two shots, mortally

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"Heroes Live Forever" - the story of two Boston...

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2024/12/03

McLean, VA (December 3, 2024) - On September 24, 1970, Boston Police Officer Walter Schroeder died a day after taking a .45 slug through his back trying to stop a bank robbery. The crime was committed by a strange mix of ex-convicts and student radicals who thought robbing banks might somehow put an end to the war in Vietnam. One of his killers was Katherine Ann Power, a high school valedictorian and former girl scout. She gained national notoriety in 1993 when she turned herself in for the crime

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"Heroes Live Forever" - the story of Prince William...

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2024/11/26

McLean, VA (November 26, 2024) - Before dawn on Thanksgiving morning, 1990, Prince William County (VA) Police Officer Philip “Mike” Pennington and other members of his SWAT team were summoned to make a dangerous arrest. The suspect, Mark Arban, had shot a sheriff’s deputy the night before. When they arrived at the suspect’s house, they encountered Arban, who was holding a pistol. Officer Pennington tried to get Arban to surrender his weapon, but his efforts failed. Suddenly, Arban grabbed a

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3:23

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

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2024/11/19

McLean, VA (November 19, 2024) - By all accounts, Sergeant George Sullivan, 43, was one of the most respected and likeable persons working at the University of Nevada, Reno Police Department. But his life ended tragically. Just after midnight on January 13, 1998, he made a traffic stop and 30 minutes later his body was found next to his patrol car, just inside the south end of the campus. Sergeant Sullivan had been killed with repeated blows to his head by a hatchet. It turned out that his

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4:03

"Heroes Live Forever" - the story of Wilmington (DE)...

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2024/11/12

McLean, VA (November 12, 2024) - There are 487 female officers honored on the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial. One of the first to make the ultimate sacrifice was Mary T. Davis, 67, a police matron with the Wilmington (DE) Police Department. Matron Davis joined the department in 1910, after her four kids were fully grown and several years after her husband was killed in an accident. On May 11, 1924, after she discovered water coming out of a jail cell, Matron Davis went in to

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

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2024/11/05

McLean, VA (November 5, 2024) - It was one of the darkest days in Baltimore police history. The funeral for Baltimore City Police Officer Harold Carey was being held on November 4, 1998. Known as the “gentle giant,” Officer Carey was killed a few days earlier when two police vehicles crashed into one another while responding to an officer’s call for help. As Officer Carey’s funeral was coming to a close, a Baltimore police helicopter piloted by Flight Officer Barry Wood experienced mechanical

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3:36

"Heroes Live Forever" - the story of Pittsburg (CA)...

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2024/10/29

McLean, VA (October 29, 2024) - On April 23, 2005, Pittsburg (CA) Police Officer Larry E. Lasater, Jr., 36, was shot and fatally injured while pursuing two bank robbery suspects. He died two days later, leaving behind a wife, JoAnn, who was seven months pregnant with the couple’s first child, Cody. Officer Lasater’s father was murdered when he was a young boy and his mother believes that helped to inspire Larry to become a police officer. Pittsburg police chief, Aaron Baker, said, “We’re going to

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