Murder of his Police Officer Father While he was in the Academy.
Murder of his Police Officer Father While he was in the Academy. He tells the story of the murder of Patrolman Harold Edgington, his Father. How it impacted his family and his police career. After retiring from police work, he took his experience to war torn Countries. All of which inspired his book.
Gary Edgington is a retired law enforcement officer. He has worked for the Manhattan Beach Police Department, the Beverly Hills Police Department, and the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. He was appointed a Special Agent with the California Department of Justice. He worked major narcotics cases, organized crime, unsolved homicide, and more.
While in his third week of the LA Sheriff’s Academy his Father, Police Patrolman Harold L. Edgington was stabbed to death by a deranged man while issuing a parking citation. Even though he was mortally wounded by the stab wound, his Father, Patrolman Edgington was able to shoot the subject in the hip as the man fled. A bystander who witnessed the incident used Patrolman Edgington's motorcycle radio to call for assistance. Other responding officers shot and killed the suspect as he threatened them with the knife used to kill his Father.
After retiring from the DOJ he deployed to Iraq as an embedded counter terrorism / organized crime subject matter expert working counter-IED with the US Army. All of his experiences led to his writing the book "Outside the Wire".
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John J Wiley
Retired Police Sergeant, Music Radio Personality, Talk Radio Show Host, Podcaster and Producer
John J. Wiley is a retired Police Sergeant turned radio personality. He has been a full time FM Music Radio DJ since 2005. In 2017 he founded the Law Enforcement Today Podcast, in a partnership with Robert Greenberg of Law Enforcement Today. The show is now named the Law Enforcement Talk Radio Show and Podcast.
Within a couple months a radio station heard an episode of the podcast and asked him to create a radio version, which he did. It has been syndicated since the Spring of 2017 and has numerous affiliate radio stations across the US.
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