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"The basic premise of the event is that hunters hunt rattlesnakes from the surrounding environment all across West Texas, and bring them into the roundup for the weekend. And during the roundup, these snakes are kept in a pit and then, one by one, beheaded and skinned in front of in front of audiences." - Elizabeth MeLampy Elizabeth MeLampy is a lawyer dedicated to animal rights and protection, and her passion for this work shines through in her latest book, Forget the Camel, the Madcap World of Animal Festivals and What They Say About Being Human . To research the book, Elizabeth traveled across the country, immersing herself in a wide range of animal festivals — from the Iditarod dog sled race to the rattlesnake roundup in Sweetwater, Texas. Elizabeth examines these festivals as revealing microcosms of our broader relationship with animals. Whether it's rattlesnake hunts, frog-jumping contests, ostrich races, or groundhog celebrations, these events reflect the ways humans use animals to express cultural identity, community pride, and historical traditions. Yet beneath the pageantry and excitement lies a deeper question: Is our fascination with these spectacles worth the toll it takes on the animals involved? With compassion and insight, Elizabeth invites readers to consider whether there’s a more ethical and empathetic way to honor our stories — one that respects both animals and the traditions they inspire. Please listen, share and read, Forget the Camel. It will be released on April 8th, 2025. https://apollopublishers.com/index.php/forget-the-camel/…
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OSU Sexual Assault Survivor, and Attorney Rocky Ratliff explians some of the unreported details of what was really going on at the OSU locker rooms, showers and back hallways.
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1 Pennsylvania's Coldest Cases - Ten Unsolved Murders That Rocked the Keystone State 57:48
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Pennsylvania's Coldest Cases: Ten Unsolved Murders That Rocked the Keystone State Ten of Pennsylvania’s most interesting murder mysteries are unraveled. Marlin Bressi’s engaging retelling takes readers through the history of the victims, the suspects, and personal anecdotes of family and friends who were impacted by the deaths. The breakdown of the crime scene, timelines of the victims and the suspects, and the various clues give readers a personal guide to the unsolved murders that rocked Pennsylvania. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support .…
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1 Scout Camp - Sex, Death, and Secret Societies Inside the Boy Scouts of America 57:30
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Scout Camp: Sex, Death, and Secret Societies Inside the Boy Scouts of America In the summer of 1995, at the largest Boy Scout camp in Ohio, a night of sexual violence ended with one counselor dead and another hospitalized. The death was ruled "accidental." It wouldn't be the last death associated with Seven Ranges Reservation.James Renner, too, was a counselor at Seven Ranges that year. He was always sure there must be more to the story of Mike Klingler's death, because Renner also knew firsthand that the 900-acre camp was not the safe getaway it was portrayed to be. On Friday nights the boys were ushered into the woods for a frightening ceremony in which they learned the rules for becoming good young men—and, above all, that keeping secrets was a scout's duty. No matter how dark the secrets were.Determined to face his demons, Renner embarks on a journey back to that tumultuous summer and exposes a clandestine society that left indelible scars on the scouts and the staff who were there. For Renner himself, it meant opening up about his twisted upbringing, his issues with trust and sexuality, and a lifetime of self-medication. The result is a deeply personal, no-holds-barred, and vitally important true crime memoir. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support .…
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1 Historic Docs, Signal Chats, Sugar Daddies 1:10:36
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1 FMR Seattle Police Chiefs Norm Stamper 1:09:15
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FMR Seattle Police Chiefs Norm Stamper Norm Stamper was a cop for 34 years and spent six of them as Seattle's police chief. Stamper resigned over his handling of the 1999 World Trade Organization protests — after he authorized the use of tear gas. Stamper has been a vocal advocate of police reform ever since Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support .…
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1 Captain Ray Lewis : Murder of Mike Brown 1:55:22
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Captain Ray Lewis : Retired Police Captain Joins Occupy Wall Street & Protests Murder of Mike Brown First arrested November 17th and immediately vows to be back out there again to be the 1% protectors worst nightmare. (Original Air Date 12-5-2014) Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support .…
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Tim Tolka - Blue Mafia Apr 23, 2024 Blue Mafia tells the backstory behind two federal investigations of police brutality in Steubenville and Warren, Ohio, from the perspective of the victims, cops, attorneys, and officials who participated. The story is essentially the biography of a small-town civil rights lawyer, but it is also a hard-boiled detective novel set in an era of rank corruption, smear campaigns, false imprisonments, death threats, and assassination attempts, no longer carried out by the mob, but instead by and for the police. The book explores the controversial police brutality lawsuits leading up to the historic police reform agreements and their outcomes, using the career of a local civil rights lawyer who fought a 20-year battle against two brutal, corrupt police departments and acted as an informant to federal investigators. It is like an instruction manual for aspiring activists and civil rights defenders who want to oust a despotic police chief or prosecutor, as well as an idiot’s guide for law enforcement and public officials on the pitfalls of power.In Steubenville, when attorney Richard Olivito defends a drug dealer claiming police misconduct, he begins to feel hunted. Later, he acts as an informant and collaborator to Justice Department officials investigating the Steubenville police, which results in a consent decree, or court-enforced reform agreement, the 2nd in U.S. history. A few years later, Olivito incites another federal Investigation in neighboring Warren, where residents have complained of police brutality for decades. This time is different because there is a video.Blue Mafia shows that some small towns have at least equally severe problems with police brutality and misconduct as many big cities, and it chronicles federal reform efforts on local police agencies during five U.S. presidential administrations, providing the most detailed account to date of police reform by consent decree and revealing the messy, sometimes tragic yet always human aspects of policing. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support .…
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1 Greg Bucceroni - Jerry Sandusky abuse survivor 56:34
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Greg Bucceroni grew up as a tough kid in Philadelphia. The same kid never would have seen his future - to be abused by Penn State's Jerry Sandusky, and involved with a child abuse ring covering three states. A compelling story with details you'll only here on the Opperman Report. Timeline of abuse of Jerry Sandusky Here is a timeline of events in the case against Sandusky, who was found guilty of sexually molesting 10 boys over a 15-year period. Many of the details of abuse come from a grand jury report. 1969: Pennsylvania State University hires Sandusky as an assistant football coach under head coach Joe Paterno. 1977: Sandusky founds The Second Mile, a charity dedicated to helping troubled children. It is through this charity that Sandusky finds his victims. 1994: A boy identified as Victim 7, who is now 26, meets Sandusky through The Second Mile. He later tells a grand jury that he had a “blurry memory” of having improper contact with Sandusky when they were showering together in the football locker room on the Penn State campus. 1996 or 1997: A boy identified as Victim 4, now 27, begins a relationship with Sandusky that results in repeated sexual violations, according to the grand jury report. 1998: Sandusky showers with a boy identified as Victim 5, now 22, pinning him in a corner, rubbing him and placing the boy’s hand on his genitals, according to the grand jury report. 1998: Sandusky asks a boy identified as Victim 6, now 24, to shower with him when he is 11, and Sandusky lathers soap on his back and bear-hugs him, according to the grand jury report. The boy tells his mother, who reports it to the university. 1998: University police investigate allegations of sexually inappropriate behavior involving Sandusky. No criminal charges are pursued. June 1, 1998: University police interview Sandusky, who admits showering with Victim 6. A detective tells Sandusky never to shower with children again, says the grand jury report. 1999: Sandusky retires as defensive coordinator but retains privileges such as access to Penn State athletic facilities. 1999: The American Football Coaches Association names Sandusky the major college Assistant Coach of the Year. 2000: Sandusky publishes his autobiography “Touched: The Jerry Sandusky Story.” Summer 2000: Sandusky hugs a boy identified as Victim 3 in the shower after workouts and touches his genitals when the boy sleeps at Sandusky’s house, according to grand jury testimony. Fall 2000: A janitor sees Sandusky in the showers performing oral sex on a young boy identified as Victim 8. The janitor tells co-workers and his supervisor, but the incident is not reported to authorities at the time. February 2001: A graduate assistant, later identified as Mike McQueary, reports seeing Sandusky rape a boy of about 10 years old in the shower of the campus football locker room. 2004 to 2008: A boy identified as Victim 9 was forced to perform oral sex on Sandusky repeatedly in the basement bedroom of Sandusky’s home, and Sandusky attempted to rape him at least 16 times, according to the grand jury report. Fall 2007: A boy identified as Victim 10 said Sandusky pulled down his gym shorts and performed oral sex on him in the basement bedroom of Sandusky’s home. Sandusky also has the boy perform oral sex on him. 2007 and 2008: A boy identified as Victim 1 says Sandusky performed oral sex on him more than 20 times when he was 13 or 14 years old, according to grand jury testimony. 2009: Sandusky is barred from a school district attended by Victim 1 after the boy’s mother reports allegations of sexual assault to the school, according to the grand jury. The matter is reported to authorities, triggering an investigation by Pennsylvania State Police and the Attorney General’s Office. September 2010: Sandusky retires from The Second Mile. November 5, 2011: A Centre County grand jury charges Sandusky with 40 counts of molesting eight boys from 1994 to 2009. Sandusky is arrested and released on a $100,000 bond. November 6, 2011: Paterno issues a statement in which he acknowledges being told by McQueary in 2002 of the incident in the shower but that “he at no time related to me the very specific actions contained in the grand jury report.” November 9, 2011: Paterno announces he will retire at the end of the football season. The university board of trustees fires Paterno and university President Graham Spanier. November 18, 2011: One of Paterno’s sons says the ousted coach has been diagnosed with a treatable form of lung cancer. November 30, 2011: A new accuser files the first lawsuit against Sandusky, The Second Mile and Penn State. The 29-year-old man says Sandusky sexually abused him more than 100 times. December 7, 2011: Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office and state police charge Sandusky with a further 12 counts of abusing two more boys. Sandusky is arrested again. December 8, 2011: Sandusky posts bail. His wife issues a statement saying the allegations are “absolutely untrue.” January 22, 2012: Paterno, 85, dies of lung cancer. May 25, 2012: The Second Mile announces plans to close and shift $2.5 million in assets to a Texas charity. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support .…
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1 Ray Blehar: Sandusky, Second Mile & Penn State COVERUPS!!!! 1:00:10
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The Penn State child sex abuse scandal concerned allegations and subsequent convictions of child sexual abuse committed by Jerry Sandusky, an assistant coach for the Penn State Nittany Lions football team, over a period of at least fifteen years. The scandal began to emerge publicly in March 2011 and broke in early November 2011 when Sandusky was indicted on 52 counts of child molestation, stemming from incidents that occurred between 1994 and 2009.[1] Sandusky was ultimately convicted on 45 counts of child sexual abuse on June 22, 2012,[2] and was sentenced to a minimum of 30 years and a maximum of 60 years in prison.[3] Additionally, three Penn State officials – school president Graham Spanier, vice president Gary Schultz and athletic director Tim Curley – were charged with perjury, obstruction of justice, failure to report suspected child abuse, and related charges.[4] The Penn State Board of Trustees commissioned an independent investigation by former FBI Director Louis Freeh, whose report stated that Penn State's longtime head football coach Joe Paterno, along with Spanier, Curley and Schultz, had known about allegations of child abuse by Sandusky as early as 1998, had shown "total and consistent disregard...for the safety and welfare of Sandusky's child victims", and "empowered" Sandusky to continue his acts of abuse by failing to disclose them.[5]: 14 [6][7] Shortly after the scandal broke, Spanier resigned. The Board of Trustees terminated the contracts of Paterno and Curley. As a result of the scandal, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) imposed sanctions on the Penn State football program: a $60 million fine, a four-year postseason ban, scholarship reductions, and a vacation of all victories from 1998 to 2011.[8] These sanctions were considered to be among the most severe ever imposed on an NCAA member school. NCAA President Mark Emmert stated that the sanctions were levied "not to be just punitive, but to make sure the university establishes an athletic culture and daily mindset in which football will never again be placed ahead of educating, nurturing and protecting young people."[9][10] The Big Ten Conference subsequently imposed an additional $13 million fine.[11] The Paterno family retained former Attorney General Richard Thornburgh to conduct a review of the Freeh report, which concluded that the report constituted a "rush to injustice" that could not be relied upon[12][13] and that Freeh's evidence fell "far short" of showing that Joe Paterno attempted to conceal the scandal, but rather that "the contrary is true".[13] In January 2013, state senator Jake Corman and state treasurer Rob McCord sued the NCAA, seeking to overturn the Penn State sanctions on the basis that Freeh had been actively collaborating with the organization and that due process had not been followed. In November 2014, Corman released emails showing "regular and substantive" contact between Freeh's investigators and the NCAA, suggesting that Freeh's conclusions were orchestrated.[14] As part of a settlement, the NCAA restored the 111 wins to Paterno's record on January 16, 2015.[15][10] Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support .…
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OSU Sexual Assault Survivor, and Attorney Rocky Ratliff explians some of the unreported details of what was really going on at the OSU locker rooms, showers and back hallways. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support .
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1 Jim Jordon OSU Scandal Invloves Epsterin & Wexner 1:00:29
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Matt Reed joins Ed Opperman to discuss the class action against OSU for historical sexual abuse. Ohio State University has paid out $60 million in settlement money in the last few years to hundreds of former students and athletes who say they were sexually abused decades ago by a school doctor. Its former president has publicly apologized “to each person who endured” abuse at the hands of the late Dr. Richard Strauss. And the university has repeatedly said it was on the side of the hundreds of men that Strauss preyed on from the 1970s to the 1990s, mostly under the guise of performing medical exams like hernia checks, which require a doctor to examine a patient’s genitals. But faced with at least five more lawsuits from some 236 men alleging they too were molested by Strauss, OSU is now denying it ever “admitted” to any wrongdoing. Website Go Fund Me Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support .…
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1 Mel Elorche and Mike Bauer - Investigating link between murders Sheriff’s Deputy Aujay and screenwriter Devore(NEW 3 /21/25) 58:19
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