Guardians Don & Jenny Lawson Stopped a Serial Killer in the Making

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12/02/22 • 50 min

Here is our follow up to episode 5 on Heroes at Work, in our season finale. Gabe edited the original 911 call, radio traffic, calls to the would-be killer's mother, along with the audio from the award presented to the Lawsons from Chief Shearer. We share the terrifying details the detectives discovered in the would-be kidnapper's AirB&B.
After 28 years, I had the privilege to meet the Lawsons in persons and thank them with tears from the deep knowing of their amazing act of heroism. I was honored to have been a part of the process to stop this evil man's plan. My co-worker Shelly and the officers, sergeants, detectives, and all the law enforcement community came together to stop the plans of Tanner Hoover. We hope you find the story interesting.
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Welcome Shannon Seulement! She has 34 years as a police dispatcher and plenty of stories to share. I am thrilled to share my mentor and trainers experiences with all of you.

14 mins - longevity

15 min - team environment

16 min - importance of briefing together and then facing person

17 min - from teacher to dispatcher in 1989

19 min - shocking parts of being new dispatcher- callers with mental health

20 min - Thanksgiving murders

22 min - Halloween riots

24 mins- the story is different to dispatch vs when offices talk to people face to face

25 min - suicidal male with a shot gun in his mouth. Shannon works on getting the female past the male and outside to safety.

27 min- the truth comes out, the female was hiding a male in the closet upstairs.

29 mins -1st responders are dispatchers, CIT training

32 mins- how police and schools are similar.

33 min -how to talk to people and listening to the background noises.

34 min- voice of experience

40 min- the value of direct communications from dispatch to officer

42 mins - importance of confirming information

43 mins- Shannons Business : Dog Days Studio - creative outlet to work through trauma

49 mins- commit a crime to get mental health help

50 mins- mental health, covid crisis

51 mins-asking someone if they are suicidal does not make them commit suicide.

52 mins- staffing issues create stress on dispatchers. learning how to let it go.

53 mins- get people on their worst day

54 mins- grateful citizens :) we love them

55 mins-70,000 people we are still a small town that helps each other, our community

56 mins- Shannons words of wisdom for a new dispatcher or younger self–have the right personality, have to have a hard shell, careful the hard shell does not become who you are.

57 mins highs and lows

58 mins-lower our expectations, if I am disappointed in anyway, I did not have low enough expectations.

60 mins- catching people doing something wrong, instead of training to an expectations.

61 mins- dangers of lower our expectations.

61 mins- is 99% good enough?

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