In this episode, we sit down with acclaimed filmmaker Charlie Minn to discuss the 2008 Lane Bryant shooting in Tinley Park, Illinois, where five women were tragically murdered in a suburban retail store — a case that remains officially unsolved.

Charlie shares the story behind his latest documentary, Who Killed These Women? The Tinley Park 5. We also talk about his career and several of his other films. Charlie is known for hard-hitting true-crime documentaries such as 47 Hours to Live, The Delphi Murders, and Murder in Mansfield, where he focuses on giving victims and families a voice while digging deep into the facts of each case.

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There was a blood trail from the ambulance bay into the ER.

Tony Smith is a former firefighter/paramedic who transitioned into flight medicine — and he was the critical care medic responsible for transporting Dom after his line-of-duty shooting.

Before anyone confirmed it, Tony knew it was a cop. The police presence was overwhelming. Drones overhead. Helicopters in the air. When they landed at Bolingbrook, he remembers walking into the hospital and seeing blood leading into the trauma bay.

While Dom was in CT, Tony and his partner split roles. One reviewing live scans. The other priming blood, preparing TXA and calcium, setting up the ventilator — working toward their 15-minute transfer goal. Their mindset is simple: if a patient has a chance, they move fast to get them to the highest level of care available.

He remembers Dom fighting the tube. Moving all four extremities. A sign that there was still a fight left in him.

For the first time, Tony sits across from a former patient and revisits that night from inside the aircraft cabin. This episode isn’t about the gunfire. It’s about what happens after — when speed, training, and controlled decision-making determine whether someone makes it.

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He saw Bin Laden before 9/11.
He pulled the trigger on the first Hellfire ever fired from a drone in combat.

Colonel Scott Swanson spent 20 years in the U.S. Air Force — from flying Pave Hawks in Desert Storm to helping pioneer armed Predator drone operations in Afghanistan. In 2000, he watched Osama bin Laden walk out into the open. The strike never came.

One year later, after 9/11, Scott and his team became the tip of the spear — arming the Predator, hunting Taliban leadership, and firing the first Hellfire missile ever launched from a UAV in combat history. He was also overhead during Operation Anaconda and the Battle of Roberts Ridge, witnessing the events that would later lead to John Chapman receiving the Medal of Honor.

This episode dives into:

• The mission that almost changed history before 9/11

• The first armed drone strike of the War on Terror

• The psychological weight of “combat to cul-de-sac” warfare

• Watching war in high definition… then going home to dinner

This isn’t a tech story. It’s a human one. About responsibility. Restraint. And living with the “what if.”

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