She was about eleven, washing dishes with fresh gashes up her arms and praying to die, when three officers answered a call for help. Two got pulled into an argument at the door. The third — a tall veteran officer whose name she never learned — knelt down and took her hands. That moment is the reason Jackson Police Department Capt. Barbara Folsom-McNeal wears a badge today.

Now, more than forty years later, she’s the veteran cop who answers the calls, and she wants to find him. To say thank you — or to tell his family what he did mattered.

If you served with Jackson PD back then, or know someone who did, we want to hear from you. Help us close the loop.

Produced by Daniel Anderson at Audio Alchemy Productions.