Inside Lenz Network

What does Shattered Lives have to do with the movies?

No, not an appearance by Siskel and Ebert! Movies often portray the good, the bad and the ugly side of life, and explain visually the tragic and the hopefullness of mankind.

Host Donna R. Gore loves movies, especially those with a “moral to the story” and those which offer solutions and an impact to the message they portray. She is offering up her own brand of review!

The Doctor with William Hurt & Christine Lahti

Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he’s successful, he’s rich, and he has no problems…. until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has seen medicine, hospitals, and doctors from a patient’s perspective, he realises that there is more to being a doctor than surgery and prescriptions.

Great story of loss & grief , identity, marriage (nearly) and a total metamorphosis of how he practices his trade after!

Running on Empty -with Judd Hirsch & Christine Lahiti

The eldest son of a fugitive family comes of age and wants to live a life of his own.

Vietnam protest, accidental killing, life on the lamb that wrecks his children’s future too…

Tune in for something a little different this week! And maybe some other little “surprises!”

May 16, 2012 9pm Eastern. Join Andrew DiDonato and Kim Kolton in welcoming Joaquin "Jack" Garcia Real Wiseguys Radio!

Joaquin "Jack" Garcia is considered by many of his peers and leading FBI experts, to be the most successful undercover agent in the history of the FBI.

In his 26 years of service with the FBI, and as an undercover agent in over 100 major operations, Jack is best known for his undercover role as "Jack Falcone," a self-described Sicilian jewel thief and drug dealer from Miami, Florida, who infiltrated the Gambino crime family of La Cosa Nostra in New York. After nearly three years of investigation, the case resulted in the arrest and conviction of 39 mobsters, including the top members of the Gambinos. Jack played his undercover role so convincingly that he was even proposed for membership into La Cosa Nostra.

Jack's other successful undercover investigations included corrupt politicians in Atlantic City, New Jersey; and corrupt police officers in the Hollywood, Florida, Broward County, Florida, Boston Police Department, and the San Juan, Puerto Rico Police Department. He also worked undercover in major drug cases, including dealers and leaders of the Colombian and Mexican drug cartels.

Jack speaks Spanish fluently and is a member of the FBI Agents Association, the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI, the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, the NYPD Honor Legion, and the Society of FBI Alumni. He is a guest speaker and lecturer at the FBI Academy, the FBI National Academy, and the FBI Citizens Academy on Sensitive Operations and Undercover Agent Training. He has been featured on 60 Minutes, the Investigative Discovery Channel, CBS Evening News, and the CBS Early Show, among others.

Jack’s book, Making Jack Falcone, was a New York Times bestseller.

Melissa Cann is Seeking Justice, YOU Can Help!

This show is to honor Melissa Cann and her efforts, to find out how she is coping in the aftermath of her loss, and to impart information to the listeners who may also be living in devastation. We hope that listeners will spread the word about who Maureen Brainard-Barnes really was, how much she meant to her entire family, how much she is missed, and to keep her memory, and the memory of all the victims, in the forefront until justice is served.

Having to overcome deep tragedies sometimes instills an energy into a person to reach out and help others, often as a way of helping themselves cope. Shattered Lives guest, Melissa Cann, is one such person. Thrust into a world she, and others, were not prepared for, the world of missing persons and surviving a homicide, Melissa has found the support of many other families living the same experience.

Dennis Griffin and Guest Co-Host, Donna Pendergast, will talk with Sheryl McCollum, Director of the Cold Case Investigative Research Institute about the 1981 unsolved murder of Effie Hall in Atlanta.

 

Little details are known about the case, but McCollum, with the assistance of her students, are trying to piece together every bit of evidence available to help the family of Effie Hall find justice.

 

Effie Hall was a single mother and college student at Clark Atlanta University and was murdered on January 20, 1981. It’s said she was found by a roommate with a gunshot wound to the chest which exited from the back. At the time of her murder, Effie is reported to have had several roommates, however, only 2 of the roommate names are known at this time. One of her roommates had tried unsuccessfully to reach her by phone, returned to the apartment and found Effie Hall dead on the floor, the telephone off the hook.

The family and Sheryl McCollum are reaching out through social media channels to try and gather more information about Effie Hall and her murder. Someone knows what happened, who shot Effie, and why, and the cold case needs all clues in order to move forward towards justice. A page on Facebook has been created to bring more awareness to the case.

Talking about sexual violence is important. Everyone can have a role in preventing sexual violence and ensuring support for victims.

Anna Doroghazi, Director of Public Policy and Communications for  Connecticut Sexual Assault Crisis Services, Inc. (CONNSACS), a statewide coalition of individual sexual assault crisis programs.

Lavinia Masters, Founder, S.A.V.E. Ministry, empowering victims of sexual abuse/assault, rape, incest, molestation and relationship violence through the Word of God, prayer, mentoring, counseling referrals, organized support groups, meetings, conferences, retreats and campaigns.

In 1991 Jason Bolton was viciously attacked after attending a party in Fayette County, Indiana. Left lying on a rural road to die, his death was ruled accidental, but was it covered up and the crime scene staged? The family of Jason Bolton have believed for over 20 years that he was brutally tortured and intentionally run over, but authorities and local media have been silent. Justice is the exposure of the truth, which is all the family wants.

MISSING: Kathy Lawson Arredondo’s daughter told Johnson that her mother had an argument with her fiancé on the morning of Feb. 11. Lawson left her home without her car keys, cigarettes, cell phone, identification, wallet or ATM card

Andrew Norton,CT Legislative and Legal Affairs Director

Often victims and survivors of crime become treasured activists in making legislative changes based upon their own tragic experiences. However, most have no idea how to go about making those changes and getting them passed into law. Joining the show is Andrew Norton who will discuss recent changes in the state of Connecticut and how they came about. We will also discuss specifics about the judiciary system and what happens next after a law is successfully passed.

Since January of 2007, Andrew Norton has worked as the Legislative and Legal Affairs Director for BESB, the Board of Education and Services for the Blind, Connecticut’s agency dedicated to serving the blind and our nation’s oldest such agency. BESB is now part of the Bureau of Rehabilitative Services, a new state agency created in July of 2011.

Andrew has also served on the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities (CHRO), the state agency charged with fighting discrimination in all its forms in government and the private sector. He has been serving as Chairman of the Commission since June of 2006.

Joining the show for the hour to examine some of the known details of the case of murdered Nique’ Leili is her grown daughter,Alex Page, and sister, Amy Elk.

 

In July, 2011, there was trouble in the Leili home with calls to the police, arguments and insinuation of past violence in the marriage of Matthew and Nique’ Leili. Nique’ went missing on July 8, leaving behind her purse, keys, credit cards, and, most importantly, her children, her husband says there was an argument and she walked out of the house.

A week later, in the hot Georgia summer, her decomposing remains were found on July 16 less than a mile from her home, completely naked, face down in a shallow grave covered by leaves. Her clothes have never been found. Interestingly, her husband, Matthew Leili had already filed for divorce citing abandonment. How did he know she wasn’t coming back? Could it be because he had spy gadgets everywhere, including surveillance cameras, tape recordings of all phone conversations, keyloggers on all computers, and trackers on all cell phones? Seems he would have a pretty good idea where his wife was headed considering the lengths taken to keep track of her.

Named a suspect in the murder of Nique’, Matthew has not been arrested and no charges have been filed. He has since taken two of the couple’s young children and moved them out of state, isolating them from Nique’s family.

One of the nation’s leading experts on crime scene reinactment, Tim Palmbach talks about Forensics that you don’t see on CSI!

Tim Palmbach is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Forensic Science Department. In addition he is a Fellow and Instructor in the Henry Lee Institute of Forensic Science. He served 22 years with the Connecticut Department of Public Safety, retiring as a Major in charge of the Division of Scientific Services. His research interests involve the applications and development of new technologies for crime scene analysis, and he is actively engaged in criminal cases throughout the United States as an expert witness in the area of crime scene reconstruction.

RealWiseguys Radio on April 18

 

RealWiseguys Radio will have two great guests on its April 18th show. Jane Ann Morrison, columnist and former crime beat reporter for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, will be the opening guest. She'll talk about the Tony Spilotro era in Las Vegas from a reporter's perspective and  how Vegas has changed over the years.

 

Wendy Mazaros, author of Vegas Rag Doll, will be on the second segment to discuss her life as the wife of Mob hit man Tom Hanley.

 

Join co-hosts Andrew DiDonato and Denny Griffin and their guests as they discuss mobsters, murder and the Las Vegas of yesterday and today.