Inside Lenz Network

We open this episode with a 911 call made on April 30, 2011, by Kevin Griffin reporting that he had awakened in his apartment in Villa Rica, Georgia, and found his girlfriend, 22-year-old Samantha Sutton, unresponsive.

Samantha Sutton's mother, Dee, joins the show to discuss the many questionable aspects to her daughter's death. What really happened to Samantha Sutton?

President and CEO of the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys, David LaBahn, returns to Shattered Lives to give an overview of child abductions and how the APA became involved. He will give listeners information on the importance of seeking therapy for the child's trauma and family reunification citing case examples. He will also talk about how he prepares prosecutors to be sensitive to the victimology involved in a child abduction and victim restitution. This discussion is not about Amber Alert Cases, but those who may not qualify for the Amber Alert.

Website: http://www.apainc.org/

Mr. David LaBahn is President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys (APA), a national association representing elected and deputy or assistant prosecutors, and city attorneys. The association acts as a global forum for the exchange of ideas, allowing prosecutors to collaborate with all criminal justice partners, and conducts timely and effective training and technical assistance to improve the prosecutorial function. In addition, APA serves as an advocate for prosecutors on emerging issues related to the administration of justice, development of partnerships and implementation of problem-solving strategies.

Diane Weaver Dunne of CRIS radio discusses the audio offerings available to people who are blind or print challenged.

CRIS records articles featured in more than 70 newspapers and magazines, including the most extensive line-up in the nation of award-winning children’s magazines featuring human narration, all available online and on demand.

In addition to broadcasting 24 hours a day, seven days a week, other services include streaming CRIS programs directly to hospitals and other health care facilities through their in-house systems, or through Internet radios installed at assisted living facilities or nursing homes.

CRIS also provides custom recordings for schools and museums to better serve people with print disabilities.

Website: https://crisradio.org

Guest Phyllis Cook discusses the 1967 murder of her brother, Ronald Wayne Anderson. At first declared a suicide, Phyllis describes the many conflicting stories and believes he was murdered. For the next 50 years she has searched for the information that would bring justice for her brother, even her father, once a Lt. with Harrison County Sheriff's Office in Gulf Port, MS stayed silent.

Fast forward to 2013 and she received a call that her elderly father had also committed suicide. It's then she realized her father's involvement in the Dixie Mafia may have been the reason they both were killed.

Guests from Airline Ambassadors International discuss ways they are making a difference in combatting human trafficking.

Nancy Rivard, President of the non-profit talks about the ways they are bringing human trafficking awareness and training to those in the travel and airline industry around the world. They have a mission for children traveling for medical or other reasons, to get them to their destinations safely.

Airline Ambassadors International (AAI) helps orphans and vulnerable children worldwide by leveraging connections with the airline industry towards humanitarian service.

Our volunteers escort children for life changing medical care, hand deliver humanitarian aid to children in orphanages, clinics and remote communities, and advocate and educate on child protection and human trafficking awareness.

WEBSITES: http://airlineamb.org

In 1986, sixteen-year-old Cheryl Pierson hired a classmate to kill her father.

James Pierson began abusing Cheryl from the time she was only eleven. Her invalid mother died when Cheryl was fifteen, and even though she was a child herself, she assumed responsibility for keeping house for the family, including cooking, cleaning and laundry. She also took over raising her younger sister,  was made to satisfy her father’s enormous sexual appetite, and expected to do well in school. He kept her on a short leash as she got older because he wanted her for himself. Then her father threatened to transfer his sexual desires to her eight-year-old sister Joann. During a discussion with a classmate about a woman who hired someone to kill her husband, he offered to kill her father for $1,000. 

Cheryl Pierson Cuccio and Rob Cuccio survived their traumatic pasts and share their love story , along with a life and death miracle, so that others who suffer in silence might be emboldened to seek help. 

Website: http://www.incestmurderandamiracle.com/home.html

Sally Spencer-Thomas returns to discuss suicide prevention and what mental health professionals need to know.

Dr. Sally Spencer-Thomas sees issues of suicide prevention and mental health promotion from a host of perspectives. Clinical psychologist. Mental health advocate. Faculty member. Patient. And survivor.

She has earned an international reputation as an entrepreneur and innovator in social change. Along the way, she’s helped establish many large-scale, gap-filling mental health efforts, including Man Therapy (www.ManTherapy.org) and National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention.

On today's episode we will discuss the media bias in cases of missing adult men with the mother of missing Damien Sharp. Why is it so difficult to get media attention for missing males?

Janeane Shanahan's son, Damien, was 22 when he was last seen in Warren, PA during Memorial Day weekend in 2002. According to a police report, Sharp was last seen carrying a black backpack and was possibly using aluminum crutches, and wearing a dark shirt and dark shorts.

19-year-old Tanner Barton, passed away unexpectedly while at his friend’s house. Today, his death remains unresolved, and the questions his mother still has span 32 pages.

Michelle Barton, Tanner's mother joins this episode still searching for clues about what happened on the night of October 17, 2012 as well as the discrepancies in the stories his friends tell about it.

Patrick J. Atkinson, founder and President of ITEMP, is also the founder and international executive director of The GOD’S CHILD Project and several other associated charities in the United States, Central America and Africa. Mr. Atkinson holds an MNM from Regis University and is on the faculty of three American universities.

He has been named the Benefactor of the City of Antigua- an international recognition last awarded four hundred years ago; knighted by the Spanish Order of St. James; and recently received the Guatemalan National Congressional Medal of Honor in recognition of the risks he took, and the thousands of Mayan Indian lives he helped to save, during the bloodshed of Guatemala’s 36-year civil war.

In 2000 and 2001, Mr. Atkinson was invited by the United Nations to develop child development and educational programs for street children left orphaned by the rampaging AIDS crisis in East and South Africa. In 2007, Atkinson was named “Goodwill Ambassador” for Peace by the Government of Guatemala.