True Crime | True Stories by Major James R Howell

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Send us Fan Mail Police continue to talk via the radio as they maintain positions around the house.

Send us Fan Mail Police negotiators continue to try and reason with Lindberg Sanders over the radio.

Send us Fan Mail Negotiations continue between the police and Lindberg Sanders.

Send us Fan Mail Transcribed radio transmissions from the police who are surrounding the house at 2239 Shannon Street.  Follow me on YouTube and Facebook. Look for Echoes of Shannon Street.

Send us Fan Mail Negotiators continue to talk to Lindberg Sanders over the radio.

Send us Fan Mail This episode covers radio transmissions between officers surrounding the house.

Send us Fan Mail Negotiators and Lindberg Sanders continue to talk over the police radio. Follow me on YouTube and Facebook. Look for Echoes of Shannon Street.

Send us Fan Mail Transcribed radio transmissions between police dispatcher and Lindberg Sanders.

Send us Fan Mail Investigators continue to take statements from officers who arrived on the scene.  Follow me on YouTube and Facebook. Look for Echoes of Shannon Street.

Send us Fan Mail Investigators from Security Squad continue to take statements from officers and supervisors who arrived on the chaotic scene. Shot were fired and one Lieutenant believes he shot one of the suspects. The YouTube version contains maps, diagrams and pics.

Send us Fan Mail More statements are taken from officers who arrived on the scene. I will publish an episode every five to seven days not counting little bonus episodes. Link for YouTube/Book Purchase/Author's Website/Facebook Book Site / Documentary Purchase: https://linktr.ee/jrlawman Spay Memphis Offers a high-quality, affordable option for you to have your pets spayed or neutered. Disclai...

Send us Fan Mail Security Squad and the Violent Crime Bureau continue to take statements from police officers from the North "C" shift who initially made the scene at 2239 Shannon Street. This same episode is on my YouTube page. Many episodes have diagrams, maps and drawings that you might want to look at.

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 6 Officers give statements about what happened when they arrived at 2239 Shannon Street.

Send us Fan Mail In this bonus podcast, Traffic Stop By Police, just a few helpful hints that will make life easier on both you and the police officer. 

Send us Fan Mail A few poems and thoughts I wrote down and published separately on LinkedIn in 2016. I then combined a few weeks ago and put them on my YouTube page. They come from the heart.

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 5 Frantic Effort more officers begin to arrive on the scene at 2239 Shannon. Shots are being exchanged between the police and cult members. One officer makes entry into the house and after trading shots with the suspects he is forced to retreat. Officers statements will describe the action. The YouTube version features diagrams and photos. Follow me on YouTube and Faceb...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 4: Help Arrives features officer's statements. Officer Schwill will finish up his statement and the first three officers to make the scene provide statements as well.

Send us Fan Mail Episode 3 part 2 of The Call will cover the time period from when Officers Hester and Schwill get the call, their arrival at the house and when they are attacked by the cult members. Statements from five of the cult members and from Officer Schwill will help fill in the blanks as to what interaction was there between the officers and the members; How the fight started?; Who said w...

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 3: The Call Part 1 we will go over the statements given by the seven surviving members of the cult who were present at 2239 Shannon Street from the time that off duty police officer Don Ross spoke with Michael Coleman on the phone about the purse snatch (Episode 2: The Mistake) up to and including Officers Hester and Schwill arriving at the house. The statements cover L...

Send us Fan Mail In Episode 2 we will look at the mistakes and misunderstandings that alone would have been insignificant, but together these mistakes led to the bloody siege at 2239 Shannon that left eight men, one of them a police officer, dead. A simple theft of a purse, a mistaken identification, phone calls and erroneous information together made the tragedy at Shannon a reality. Statements f...

Send us Fan Mail This is the first episode in a true crime series about the 1983 kidnapping of two Memphis Police Officers by members of a cult that believed the world was coming to an end. In episode 1 you will hear the actual call to the police by cult member Michael Coleman and the subsequent 17 minutes of radio transmissions as the two officers make the scene. Quickly followed by their call fo...