The Bill Gray Story

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03/08/23 • 84 min

A Financial Crimes Investigator for the Chippewa County Sheriff’s Office offers to help Homeland Security search for a missing female juvenile who ran away from Florida with a young male who had flown in from the UK. Homeland Security has information that these two fled to Eau Claire Wisconsin where Investigator Bill Gray served. Bill locates the male and is close to locating the female before he is violently attacked without warning in his squad and faces the fight of his life – a fight where only one would survive. He shares his amazing story and lessons learned for other officers.

Bill - "If you don't shoot them where it matters, it won't matter!" Bill does public speaking for private companies and law enforcement sharing his story and teaching about officer safety, awareness, and human trafficking. If you are interested in learning more about Bill's program, you can reach him by email at [email protected]. Click here if you are interested learning how you can support this podcast and the National COPS organization: www.glow.fm/officerdownmemorialpodcast WARNING - Strong language and violent content may be disturbing to some listeners. If you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts or emotional distress due to mental health challenges, help is available 24/7 from the National Suicide & Crisis Prevention Lifeline by calling 988 on your cell phone or 1-800-273-TALK. Help is just a phone call away.

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REOPENED: The Greg Lange Story

Chief Greg Lange was loved by all in this small town of 530 people, located just 30 minutes west of Rochester in SE Minnesota. The doors to his home were always open for kids after school who had nowhere else to go. It was the end of a long 4th of July holiday weekend, and the city was finally quieting down for the night before a loud knock on the door woke Greg up. It was a young local gal asking for help, reporting a domestic assault in progress at a home in Greg's neighborhood, a home he'd been to many times. There he would be ambushed by two brothers, beaten and murdered - Greg gave his life that night and ultimately saved the lives of a young mother and her 5 month old baby girl.

The man who shot and killed Chief Lange is up for his 4th parole hearing after serving 35 years of his life sentence for the brutal murder. This family needs our help to send letters to the state of Minnesota telling them to keep this cop killer in prison where he belongs. Letters must be sent by Tuesday March 28th. Use this link to go to Greg's page on our website, and then click on the NO PAROLE FOR COP KILLERS logo to go to the Officer Down Memorial Page to find out how to send your letter to support this family.

This episode is sponsored by our friends at Law Enforcement labor Services, Inc.

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