BADGE 387-Robert Sberna

True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

Dan Zupansky

True Crime, News Commentary, Documentary, News, Society & Culture

4 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2016

⏱️ 91 minutes

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For nearly 40 years, Jim Simone patrolled Cleveland's 2nd District, a drug-plagued area with one of the highest violent crime rates in the U.S. Nicknamed "Supercop," Simone generated headlines and public interest on a scale not seen since Eliot Ness searched for Cleveland's "Torso Murderer" in the 1930s.

Simone entered police work after serving in Vietnam with the 101st Airborne, where he earned two bronze stars and two purple hearts. As a cop, he never shied from danger. He was involved in numerous gun battles, and killed five people in the line of duty (all ruled justifiable). Notoriously equitable as a cop, Simone was more interested in doing the right thing than honoring the "blue code."

Badge 387 recounts the brave exploits that earned Simone hundreds of commendations. In 1983, while searching a church basement for a gunman, he was shot in the face. Despite his wounds, he managed to shoot his assailant, saving himself and two other cops. And in 2009, he plunged into a frigid river to save a woman. Simone was Cleveland's "Patrolmen of the Year" in 1980 and 2009, the only officer in the city's history to receive the award twice. BADGE 387: The Story of Jim Simone, America's Most Decorated Cop-Robert Sberna

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0:34.0	GSK believes innovation starts when you stop to listen. That's why GSK and Veeve Health Care
0:39.5	have partnered with the HIV community for decades and developed medicines that better fit the
0:45.1	lives of people living with HIV. That's just one example of how GSK unites science,
0:51.6	technology, and talent to get ahead of disease together. Visit GSK.com to learn more.
0:58.6	GSK believes innovation starts when you stop to listen. That's why GSK and Veeve Health Care
1:09.3	have partnered with the HIV community for decades and developed medicines that better fit
1:14.8	the lives of people living with HIV. That's just one example of how GSK unites science,
1:21.4	technology, and talent to get ahead of disease together. Visit GSK.com to learn more.
1:40.1	You are now listening to True Murder, the most shocking killers in true crime history
1:45.5	and the authors that have written about them. Gacy, Bundy, Domer, the Night Stalker,
1:52.5	DTK, every week, another fascinating author talking about the most shocking and infamous
1:58.1	killers in true crime history. True Murder with your host, journalist and author, Dan
2:04.5	Zufanski.
2:05.5	Good evening.
2:14.5	For nearly 40 years, Jim Simone patrolled Cleveland's second district, a drug plagued area
2:23.6	with one of the highest violent crime rates in the U.S. Nicknamed Supercop, Simone generated
2:30.5	headlines in public interest on a scale not seen since Elliott Ness search for the Cleveland's
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