Podcasts about milan police department

Nick Glenn, winner of the L.E.A.D Instructor of the Year for 2022 is from Milan Police Department in Tennessee. His town has taught the L.E.A.D. program for six years. Nick supervises the curriculum in kindergarten, 2nd grade, 5th grade, and high school. Keith Stopera is a LEAD Instructor from Manasquan, NJ who has taught L.E.A.D. in the local elementary school for several years.    

You can bring your unused prescription drugs to five different locations in Rock Island County for safe disposal Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. during the DEA National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. You don't have to be a Rock Island County to take advantage of this opportunity; it's free and anonymous.The locations include the East Moline Police Department, the Milan Police Department, the Moline Police Department, the Rock Island County Justice Center, and the Silvis Police Department. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center Drug Prevention Specialist Carlos Jimenez joined AM Quad Cities!

When I put together an episode of the podcast, I have to try to put myself in the listeners’ shoes. I have to keep up with the information I’ve released versus the information that I know. And with every episode, I have to ask myself, “What is the question that listeners are asking after hearing this?"   I know what I would be asking if I were on the other end of this deal. “What about the mother? Where is Cindy?     I’m Brandon Barnett. And this is Searching For Ghosts.   I’m glad that I’m not from Milan. I had no knowledge of anything about this case when I started Searching For Ghosts. I just remembered seeing the billboards when she went missing twenty years ago and some news reports here and there.   As I started investigating this, I soon learned something. Everyone in Milan has a theory of what happened to Cayce. And the town is split on who are the good guys and who are the bad guys.    One person will recommend that you talk to someone, while another person will claim that that someone cannot be trusted. Milan is a small town, and everyone seems to know everyone else's business.   And with this case, it’s not as if you can just look at someone’s criminal history to determine if they are credible or a possible suspect. It seems that everyone I look into has had some sort of run-in with the law. It’s staggering, actually.    And any disclaimer I receive on a certain person is given so casually, “He’s been in prison three times, but he’s a good guy.” Wait. What?   So I came into this thing with a blank slate, and to be honest, I’m skeptical of everyone, and at the same time, not pre-judging anyone. I haven’t had forty years of hearing about so and so, and how they used to beat their dog or whatever. I wasn’t raised in the Gibson County bubble, so hopefully, I can be objective.   But you also cannot ignore when certain names or theories keep popping up over and over again. And in one form or another, Cindy McDaniel, Cayce’s mother, always comes up.   You don’t have to have been raised in Milan to hear the story, you know, THE STORY, and question the reaction time of Cindy before she called looking for Cayce. This is from a WMCTV News Report out of Memphis on the 14th anniversary of Cayce’s disappearance     Other parents who were close to Cayce at church questioned why Cayce's mother Cindy waited so long to check on her daughter.   "Momma came in, doors were open, lights were on, and clothes were there...and they just went to bed," said church member Polly Fitzgerald.  "I'd be frantic. It'd scare me to death... I would have found out something that night.  I wouldn't have waited to the next day.  Something's not right," she adds.     But the more people I talk to in Milan, the more I realize that a lot of kids in that area were raised in a manner where they might just stay over at a friend’s house with no notice. I only have my childhood to compare, and if my Mom would’ve had access to GPS at the time, she would’ve tracked me constantly. But as I stated earlier, evidently, this wasn’t the case with a lot of parents, including Cindy McDaniel.   But the way the house was found still sends up a red flag.   The next thing that people point to with Cindy is that she doesn’t come to the vigils for Cayce anymore and that she has been off the radar for years. This stood out to me when I first started my research. In fact, Cindy has basically been off the GRID for close to ten years.   From reports that I can find, Cindy still attended the vigils as late as the tenth anniversary in 2006. From an article in The Jackson Sun in 06:   Whether she never got to 15, or is a 24-year-old runaway somewhere, is the biggest thing that eats at her mother, Cindy McDaniel Bolton. "There's no day that goes by when I don't think about her," McDaniel Bolton said. Thinking about what's happened to her daughter's friends breaks her down, again. "They're in college, getting married, having babies ..." she said through sobs Monday. "And we still don't know."   But by 2010, WMCTV reported in a one off statement that    “Investigators say they can't locate Cayce's mom Cindy."   And just like with the story of how the house was found in 1996, it’s the lack of information in these reports that screams the loudest.   Then there are the stories of Cindy’s history with drug and alcohol abuse. The talk is that Cindy and Steve, her boyfriend at the time, were at a bar in Jackson the night Cayce went missing.   Steve is currently in prison, and many of Steve and Cindy’s known associates at the time have long criminal histories…violent criminal histories.   So this has fueled theories over the years that Cayce’s abduction and possible murder were retribution for a drug debt. There is even talk in some circles of a prostitution ring.    And apparently, the motive of a drug debt is not just small town gossip. This appears to be the theory held by law enforcement. After months of reaching out, I finally spoke with the former lead investigator on the case, Jerry Hartsfield, who now lives in Canada. He wasn’t bashful in expressing his thoughts about a possible motive.   (Sound clip of Hartsfield being assigned the case, his theory)   According to Hartsfield, Cindy was questioned numerous times, including by the FBI, but there was never enough evidence to prove that Cindy was either directly or indirectly responsible for her daughter’s disappearance.   (Sound clip Hartsfield: Failing lie detector test)   But according to the interview I conducted with Dawn and Kathy a few weeks ago, Billy Hale, from The National Missing Children’s Locate Center, told Cindy to expect to fail the lie detector test.    (Sound clip of Dawn-Lie Detector)   Although never officially declared a suspect (at least in the media), I’ve heard from numerous people around at the time that law enforcement zeroed in on Cindy from the beginning. It appears that they felt she was connected to Cayce’s disappearance in one way or another.   The fact that Cindy has all but disappeared herself, doesn’t help her case in the court of public opinion. So many that I have talked to, all point to the fact that she isn’t currently publicly trying to find answers in her daughter’s disappearance as an indication of guilt.   But in those early Mirror-Exchange articles from 1996 and 1997, it appears that Cindy WAS involved. The October 1st edition states that Cindy was one of the people who helped secure funds to bring in Valorie, the search and rescue dog from Episode 2.   Cindy also spoke to the press one year later on the first anniversary of Cayce’s disappearance, asking the public not to forget about her daughter.   Cindy was the one who contacted a psychic to help in the case. She and Billy Hale were even on the Leeza Gibbons show, looking for answers.   (Sound clip from Leeza)   In the interview from a few weeks ago, Dawn and Kathy talk about their firsthand knowledge of Cindy’s involvement in those first six months.   (Sound clips from helicopter, binoculars and cleaning out her locker)   So is Cindy’s silence in recent years, the actions of someone complicit in their daughter’s disappearance, or are these the actions of someone prone to substance abuse, just worn out for being under suspicion for over 20 years?   The best person to answer that question is Cindy herself.   I’ve been trying to locate Cindy since late last year. And Ive heard everything regarding her location, from being in prison to moving out of the area.   I had a source who told me that they had located her, that she was still in the area. This source says they gave her my contact info, but two months went by and I heard nothing.   But after the launch of the podcast, I started getting some traction. I had family members contacting me, saying that they were working to connect us.   Then on April 14, I received a post on my Facebook timeline that read: "Hello Brandon. I’m Cindy McDaniel, Cayce’s mama. Would like to speak to you. Get back with me if you’re interested."   I immediately contacted one of Cayce’s cousins to see if this was legit. And it was.   Since this was on my timeline and not in a private message, a lot of people saw it. One person contacted me stating that they took a screenshot of this and sent it to authorities. I’m still unsure why.   A few days later, a source of mine and I were supposed to meet with the mayor of Milan to discuss releasing some of the police reports pertaining to the case. I had an emergency come up and my source went without me.   My source was told that a special investigator was being put on the Cayce McDaniel case. I finally felt like we were making progress. To my knowledge, there hasn’t been a special investigator on this case in over ten years.   So I reached out to my friends in the media in Jackson to verify this, before I made the announcement. Not only would law enforcement not confirm this, my source received a phone call from the mayor’s office scolding them for releasing this information. Law enforcement does not want the media involved.   I understand that there are certain things about an open case that have to be guarded. But I wouldn’t think that this would be one of them. Was law enforcement just telling my source what they thought he wanted to hear? Is the reason for not wanting this released to the media that they want to protect the integrity of the investigation, or is it because there is no new special investigator?   Meanwhile, I had been working all week to set up a time to meet with Cindy. We had a tentative date of this past Saturday, April 22nd.   That Saturday, I received a message from a relative of Cindy. This person stated that Cindy had been arrested that morning over some unpaid fines, and was being  held without bond.   Considering the events of the past couple of weeks, the timing of this arrest seems off to me. Arrested on a Saturday for unpaid fines? On the Saturday we were supposed to meet?   And I found the mugshot. Her arrest has been confirmed. Is law enforcement sending a message? Are the old fines the real reason Cindy was taken into custody on a Saturday after publicly stating that she wanted to talk to me? Has the investigation moved up in the priority ladder within the Milan Police Department. Just two months ago, the police chief told me himself that it would take awhile for them to find the files on the McDaniel case?   Will Cindy be more or less likely to talk to me when she gets out of jail? Is there anyone I can trust?      http://www.sfgpodcast.com/Searching For Ghosts Website            

I’m headed to Milan and it’s a perfect day for a road trip. It’s sunny and warm, and everything is starting to turn green. As I get older, the winters get harder to take. Everything is just so drab. But if it weren’t for the  winter that I have come to despise, I probably wouldn’t appreciate the spring and summer.   In doing my research on this case, I’m amazed at the amount of criminal activity that seems to permeate West Tennessee. And it’s not just here. This is everywhere. I begin to realize that maybe I was somewhat sheltered growing up. And I start to appreciate even more, my childhood years. Not everyone had it so good.   My destination is a house in the somewhere between Milan and Jackson, Tn, the town where I grew up. As I travel the winding back roads of West Tennessee, I can’t help but think about all the secrets held in this area for over twenty years. And just by looking at it, with rolling pastures and well kept homes, you’d never know that there are some really bad people in this world. And some of them are our neighbors.   A couple of days after Episode One came out, I received a message from a woman named Dawn who wanted to meet with me. She said she knew Cayce and the family, and was very involved in the search efforts when Cayce went missing.    She also wanted Cathy, a long-time friend of the family, to join us to help fill in any blanks. Dawn told me to carve out two days for interviews because there was just so much information. We didn’t need two days, but we did talk for over six hours.   I’m Brandon Barnett. And this is Searching For Ghosts.   Cayce was at an age when a lot of kids start to rebel. It happens. For many, it’s a rite of passage. Everything that has been made public about Cayce from friends and family over the years, might lead one to believe that she was immune to any teenage rebellion. As far as I’m concerned, there are three possible explanations for this:   1) People might be concerned about soiling her reputation, which might affect people’s opinion of her and their interest in the case. Don’t think for one moment that the image of the innocent beauty queen that was Jon Benet Ramsey didn’t fuel the public’s fascination with that case.   2) Cayce showed a certain side of herself around some, and then a totally different side to others. That’s what teenagers are best at.   3) She wasn’t going through a rebellious stage. It has happened. My parents were my best friends throughout my teenage years. I never really went through that phase. I was either fishing, playing basketball or holed up in my room with a guitar in my hands. I was pretty much a straight arrow.   But the summer Cayce disappeared, both Dawn and Cathy noticed a drastic change.     And while in 2017, the Goth look seems pretty tame, in 1996 in rural West Tennessee, this was a pretty big deal. If nothing else, it was a definite departure from the Cayce of just a few months before.   It’s been about two months since I stopped by the Milan Police Department to ask for any reports about Cayce that are open to the public. I was told that the initial report should be available for me to read. I’ve had friends and family of Cayce ask for those reports as well. But it appears that we’re being stonewalled.   And the daily paper out of Jackson, Tn, The Jackson Sun, is going through their archives to find articles about the case. But this will take some time.   So the Milan Mirror Exchange has been my main source at this point to try to piece this thing together. It is a weekly paper, so I have to do a little estimating on the exact timing of certain findings.   While looking through these reports, it appears that by September 2, 1996, police had a sketch of a possible suspect. After a little digging around, I discovered that the sketch came from a witness who alleges that Cayce was seen with this man at The Gibson County Fairgrounds in Trenton, Tn, a town about fourteen miles away from Milan.   This sketch is floating around the internet, but like so many things about this case, it is never mentioned again. So I started asking around, and the word is that the source was deemed not credible. Not one person that I talked to said that they believed she was ever at the fair in Trenton. And given that all the descriptions of Cayce by law enforcement had her in her bed clothes with no shoes, I felt that it wouldn’t make sense for her to be walking around the fair a couple of days later. So I made note of this, but pretty much dismissed the sketch myself.   But then I found an article just one month later in the October 1st edition of The Mirror-Exchange about a world-famous search and rescue dog named Valorie who came to Milan to search for Cayce. The headline read: “Cayce Left On Her Own Free Will, Smart Dog Says." Her own free will? Again, why would Cayce leave on her own free will in boxers, a tee shirt and no shoes. The no shoes story is one of the few things in this case that keeps being repeated year after year. I needed to know more about this smart dog and her findings. It just so happened that I was sitting at the kitchen table of one of the people responsible for bringing Valorie to town. Dawn and her husband had even video taped the search.   Valorie had found ten people in the Oklahoma City bombing the year before. At the time, she had flown 40 times to find missing persons, had been involved in 600 cases   So I desperately wanted to read the official report of Valorie’s findings. That would definitely be something that would’ve been given to law enforcement at the time, seeing how there was at least one report in the media about it.   But I wasn’t going to get it from the Milan Police Department. I finally received word from Milan PD that they were not going to release any reports whatsoever pertaining to the Cayce McDaniel case. Damn.   So I decided to look up Valorie’s handler at the time, Harry Oakes. Valorie has passed on, but Oakes is still doing search and rescue with his organization International K-9 Search and Rescue Services. In 1996, he was working under the name Mountain Wilderness Search-Rescue-Recovery-International Response Team.   In 1996, Oakes and Valorie were brought in to Milan by Dawn and others with private funds. So I hoped that Oakes would be able to help me seeing as how this mission was not sanctioned by local law enforcement.   According to a 1998 article in The Tennessean, Billy Hale was with The National Missing Children’s Locate Center. At this time, I am having trouble finding any footprint on the internet of Billy and his organization. I only pray that the organization didn’t die with Mr. Hale. If you have any information on this please contact me on our website, sfgpodcast.com   When Dawn first reached out to me, she told me a story that I had never heard before. And to be honest, it blew my hair back. And this story, in my mind, might piece together the things we’ve discussed in this episode.   There are rumors that Cayce made a phone call from the church rec center pay phone the night she went missing. Who would she have called? Her mother didn’t have a phone at the house. The grandmother reportedly never received a phone call. Her best friend was at the church social with Cayce.   Did Cayce call someone to arrange for them to pick her up after the church party? Was Cayce going through the teenage rebellion stage that so many have denied? Did the police investigate this alleged phone call? Is there any way to get the phone records today from a pay phone in 1996?   Searching For Ghosts Website   International K-9 Search And Rescue Services      

In 1996, the internet was still in its infancy with an estimated 10 million users. The first flip phone was introduced with a price tag of a whopping $1,000. To give a little more perspective, this was three years before the Columbine Massacre and five years before 9/11. In the summer of 1996, we didn’t even know the name Jon Benet Ramsey. Her murder was still four month away. One could argue that we hadn’t yet lost our innocence.   I was twenty two years old at the the time. I remember seeing one of those huge “Have You Seen Me?” billboards on the by-pass in my hometown of Jackson, Tennessee. Jackson sits on Interstate 40 about halfway between Memphis and Nashville. The billboard was for a missing fourteen year old girl from Milan, Tennessee, a small town of 8,000 people that is located some twenty five miles north of Jackson.   In 1996, we weren’t as connected as we are today. There was no texting or social media. Sure, most residents of Milan would drive to Jackson to work, but most of my friends at the time had never even been to Milan…there was just no reason to go there. So, when the news broke of Cayce Lynn McDaniel’s disappearance, many of us in the largest city in West Tennessee outside of Memphis were left scratching our heads. What the hell was going on in this neighboring town that we had always heard mention of but knew very little about.   In the twenty years since, I’ve been to Milan countless times when i ran a delivery route. I’ve made friends there and have learned a lot about the town during this time.   Milan is unique in West Tennessee in the fact that it is romanticized by its residents, especially when it comes to its high school football team. It reminds me of something you would see in rural Texas. Think Friday Night Lights. When fall rolls around, the town becomes a sea of purple and white (the colors of the Milan Bulldogs. It is also a pastime for residents to bash every surrounding town (including Jackson) as inferior. Especially, other towns in Gibson County. Humboldt, Tn is referred to as Scumboldt by residents of Milan.   Back in the day, it wasn’t uncommon to hear Milan residents who worked in Jackson brag about how they wouldn’t be caught dead living in Jackson…the crime was just too bad there. It became a running joke with a lot of my friends about how we had been oblivious for so long that God’s utopian garden spot on Planet Earth was just twenty-five miles north of Jackson, Tn. Who knew?   While this hometown pride always rubbed many of us the wrong way back then, there is something endearing about it. There is a sense of community there that is lacking in a lot of the country. There is no need to convince people to shop local there. If a shop in Milan has what residents need, that’s where they'll get it.   So last December, seemingly every television network was airing specials on the 20th anniversary of the murder of Jon Benet Ramsey. Then I saw a small blurb about the case of Cayce Lynn McDaniel. I understand why the Ramsey case captivated the world, but I couldn’t help but feel anger over the lack of coverage of Cayce’s case. If it weren’t for a local news report, I wouldn’t have known that it has been twenty years. It just isn’t on the radar anymore.   I remember thinking, if Cayce was a blonde haired, blue eyed beauty pageant contestant from a well to do family, maybe she would be getting more attention on the 20th anniversary. I actually thought to myself, “Someone should do a podcast on this.” Well, sometimes if you want something done, you have to do it yourself.   That’s where I come in. I’m a singer-songwriter who left my career in 2013 to pursue music full-time. And two years ago, I started a documentary podcast called Left Of Nashville to chronicle all the struggles that come along with this.   I have written for some local papers over the years, but I don’t consider myself a journalist. But I am a storyteller. And after two years of podcasting, I fell in love with the medium.  So I decided to be the change I want to see.   in the next episode, we will begin at the beginning. August 16, 1996. This is the story of the disappearance of Cayce Lynn McDaniel. I’m Brandon Barnett. And this is Searching For Ghosts.   Tennessee Bureau Of Investigation   Milan Police Department   National Center For Missing And Exploited Children   Searching For Ghosts Facebook Page   Searching For Ghosts on Instagram     Featured Music:   Brandon Barnett: Behind The Scenes (iTunes)   Brandon Barnett-Behind The Scenes (Amazon)

From the creator of Left Of Nashville: Teaser from the upcoming podcast Searching For Ghosts: The Disappearance Of Cayce Lynn McDaniel. Milan, Tennessee is a town of about 8,000 people. It is located in the Western part of the state, about halfway between Memphis and Nashville. And It’s 25 miles north of where I grew up. In 1996, West Tennessee was shaken to its core, when fourteen year-old Cayce Lynn McDaniel disappeared from her home. She hasn’t been heard from since.   According to reports, Cayce’s mother came home to find the clothes her daughter had worn to a church social earlier in the night, laid out on the bed. There was a bowl of cookies and milk on the floor, illuminated by the glow of Cayce's television,  as the back door of the house stood wide open.   The first call by Cayce’s mother to find her daughter was made some ten hours later.   This year marks the twentieth anniversary of her mysterious disappearance, and while network television is airing special after special about another case from that year in Colorado, the disappearance of Cayce Lynn McDaniel, seems all but forgotten.     National Center For Missing and Exploited Children   WBBJ-TV 7 Twentieth Anniversary Report   Milan Mirror Exchange Interview With Amber Hansen (Cayce's Best Friend)   Milan Police Department: 731-686-3309