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196 Overcoming PTSD and Bulldozing Fear: Susan Snow, Daughter of Slain LAPD Detective Thomas C. Williams (Part One)


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Welcome to part one of a very special two-part interview with my guest Susan Snow. 

Susan Snow is the daughter of LAPD Detective Thomas C. Williams, who was killed in the line of duty on October 31, 1985,  in a contract hit while driving his six year old son to school. Thomas shielded his son from a hail of gunfire, saving his sons life while giving up his own. Detective Williams was a hero on so many levels.

Susan was only seventeen years old and a senior in high school at the time of this incident. Susan's book "The Other Side of the Gun" was born out of Susan’s journey through the trauma she experienced with the death of her father. She wrote it to heal herself and help others heal through her words and experiences. 

Thank you, Susan, for sharing your story with us so we can better understand and appreciate the heroes and their families who have had to endure these types of tragedies. 

In today’s episode we discuss:

·      The murder of LAPD Detective Thomas C. Williams on October 31, 1985.

·      How she was forgotten due to the attention that was focused on her brother and mother. 

·      Finally realizing that her father was killed in a contract hit because he was a LAPD detective. 

·      Having a father who was a LAPD detective and trying to be a normal teenager.

·      Her grief process and negative experience with her therapist.

·      Lunch with a nun.

·      Discovering she had PTSD and how she coped with this diagnosis.

·      How Susan navigated having a mom with a drinking problem, getting through her senior year of high school, and processing her father’s murder.

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