Domino Effect of Murder

www.jancantyphd.com

What’s the backstory of murder after the police leave, the headlines read and news footage viewed? What's the personal fallout on first responders, witnesses, coworkers, family members and even the perpetrator years and decades later? Honest, detailed true accounts and comments by those who traveled the path are shared. In addition, some episodes spotlight information that is rarely known at the time it is needed. There are so many more victims than the ones taken to the morgue. Yet there is hope. Post Traumatic Growth does happen and no one has to go it alone. (This podcast is published twice-monthly on Wednesdays January - November.)

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Episodes

Convo with Juliet Ruiz, Thanatologist (Part One)

We are broadening the discussion in the next two episodes to learn how death and dying are seen from the perspective of a thanatologist (a grief expert). In the first half of the discussion Juliet Ruiz focuses on the field of thanatology, Kubler-Ross's model of death and dying, William Warden's work on the four tasks of grieving, the big disconnect between society and the griever, the special needs of siblings of the deceased, the role of bereavement groups, the brain's response to sudden death ...

Jul 08, 2020•48 min

Grieving the Children Lost to Sex Traffickers

Guest, author and activist Nancy Hartwell, whose German friend was kidnapped by sex traffickers over 40 years ago, describes her grief and how she channeled it to tirelessly educate the public about this growing, worldwide threat. Three separate cases of parents who lost children to sex traffickers are reviewed, as well as how they coped with the death of their daughters. The corresponding show notes on the Facebook page "Domino Effect of Murder" provides many tips and resources adults can use t...

Jun 24, 2020•57 min

Kathryn Simpson (daughter of murder victim Kimberly Womack) wants the public's help

Kimberly Womack's death certificate says she died from homicide due to blunt force trauma to the left side of her head and multiple broken ribs. Yet, County Coroner Bo Clark had her cremated almost immediately, violating Louisianna state law. (This is one of over 100 such cases of Dr. Clark's and one of over 800 in the state of Louisianna). No one is providing answers to her only child, her now-grown daughter. Listen as guest Kathryn Simpson describes her frustration at not getting justice for h...

Jun 10, 2020•38 min

Trauma Survivors Through the Lens of a Filmmaker

Eric Christiansen is on a mission as a filmmaker-documentarian. After losing his home to the 1990 Santa Barbara Painted Cave Fire (one of California's most destructive man-made disasters on record) he devoted his talent, time, resources and energy to creating stunning, powerful accounts of survivors who have had a front-row seat to suffering. His subjects are trauma survivors: those who endured 911, first responders, military veterans, witnesses to mass shootings and others. He explains a basic ...

May 27, 2020•37 min

Sharon McConnell-Dickerson: A Blind Artist from Mississippi Stops a Serial Murderer in Panama

Sharon McConnel Dickerson is a study in contrasts. She is a blind international artist. She is petite yet intrepid. She does not speak Spanish, never traveled to Panama, never studied crime scene investigation, yet stopped the serial killer who murdered her close friend in Boco del Toro, Panama. She accomplished this with only a phone and determination born out of grief for her pal, Beau. Listen as she recounts her initial suspicions, the steps taken to identify "Wild Bill" Dathan Holbert as the...

May 13, 2020•50 min

Ryan's Last Run: Murder at U of Tampa, Florida

Kevin McCall, a grieving father, allows us a private retelling of events surrounding the senseless murder of his 21-year old son, Ryan, at U of Tampa and the long wait before the assailant was captured. Kevin reveals the toll it took on his family and the lack of closure brought by a conviction. Kevin kept a personal journal throughout the ordeal, never intending to publish it, but that is eventually what happened. This publication, "For the Love of Family" offers rare insights in real-time reac...

Apr 29, 2020•41 min

Waking Up to a Nightmare: Double Murder on Live TV with Javier Leiva

Journalist /podcast host Javier Leiva (Pretend Radio and Criminal Conduct) worked alongside future murderer Vester Lee Flanagan II (aka Bryce Williams) at CBS affiliate WDBJ in Roanoke, Virginia. They lost contact, but Javier vividly remembers the morning Vester opened fire on two colleagues (Alison Parker and Adam Ward) on live television, August 26, 2015. This explicit, public tragedy even caught the attention of President Obama. Javier looks back on the hours spent with Vester and wonders wha...

Apr 15, 2020•30 min

Growing Up in the Ghost of Cindy: Vehicular Homicide

A grisly vehicular homicide on a very hilly, rural Ohio road changed the trajectory of our next guest's life forever. Tammy Ward describes the depth and breadth of her loss when her sister Cindy perished along with four of her high school friends after being broadsided by an airborne vehicle. The irony is that that same road, Roller Coaster Road, guaranteed joy decades earlier when the family would climb and descend the same terrain on their Sunday drives. The haunting aftermath motivated Tammy ...

Apr 01, 2020•40 min

When Life Came Tumbling Down: Multiple Losses

Ned Barnett's life began to unravel in September of 1999 when he lost his son to a vehicular fatality. The family imploded. Seven years later, his wife revealed the depth of her grief by placing a gun to her chest and pulling the trigger. Ned found her shortly afterward. But it was about to get worse. When the sheriff arrived he charged Ned with homicide. Since they had recently relocated to the tiny town to escape the sad memories of their son's death, they had no friends or family in the vicin...

Mar 18, 2020•59 min

The Murder of Little Lisa Marie as told by her Aunt

There is a room in a home in Pennsylvania where purple dinosaur Barney stuffed animals wait silently for a little girl who will never come. The collection is in memory of the petite toddler who loved Barney, loved life and was loved in return by her mother, aunt, grandparents, and others. But on the evening of March 12, 1994, tiny Lisa Marie McGhee was brutally murdered by her mother's live-in boyfriend, William Everhart who towered over her at 6'6" tall with a temper to match. No amount of time...

Feb 19, 2020•42 min

Bill Jenkins: Parent of Murdered Child and Its Aftermath The Death of Innocence Part Two)

When Professor Bill Jenkins's teenage son was murdered at work in 1997, resources to help homicide survivors after receiving the death notification were sorely missing. In this segment of Bill Jenkins's two-part interview, we hear how he negotiated those first tough weeks and took the scattered notes and printouts to create the backbone of a unique book that eventually won awards "What To Do When The Police Leave." He also provides a compassionate and useful explanation of how trauma impacts hom...

Feb 06, 2020•32 min

Bill Jenkins: Parent of Murdered Child: - The Death of Innocence (Part One)

When Speech and Set Design Professor Bill Jenkins' 16-year-old son was murdered his second day of employment in 1997, it forcibly directed our guest on a different path. Since then Bill Jenkins has worked tirelessly on behalf of homicide survivors. In this first segment of a two-part interview, he introduces us to his wonderful son that was senselessly taken from him and the world, then addresses the issue of victims' rights and Marsy's Law. He also speaks about the marginalized victims of murde...

Feb 05, 2020•42 min

Intro: The Story Behind the Stories

First. Where did the idea for the show originate? What makes the host an expert on coping with homicide's aftermath? What sets the show apart from true crime podcasts? What can listeners gain? These and other questions will be answered in this episode. (For more info on my backstory, read excerpts of my manuscript on the Facebook page: "A Life Divided: A psychologist's memoir about the double life, deception, and murder of her husband - and her road to recovery.") Life taught me most from what I...

Feb 05, 2020•40 min

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