Lisa Bianco - 464
The Generation Why Podcast
Wondery
4.6 • 18.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
March 4th, 1989. Mishawaka, Indiana. On March 4th, 1989, 29-year-old Lisa Bianco was beaten to death near her home by her ex-husband, 38-year-old Alan Matheney. Despite assurances from prison authorities that Lisa would be informed if Matheney was out of prison, they failed to do so. Join us as we discuss a case that highlighted the need for proper enforcement of domestic violence laws and procedures.
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| 0:00.0 | Join Wondry Plus in the Wondry app to listen ad-free from Wondry. |
| 0:30.0 | How you doing tonight, Aaron? I'm doing fine. Justin, how are you? Doing good. We're going |
| 0:49.1 | to be covering kind of a somber case tonight, but before we get started, we got a very touching |
| 0:55.1 | email from one of our listeners. Who wrote into us here? Well, a woman by the name of Jessica |
| 1:00.6 | wrote in and she sent us an email about her brother Ed. And this is what she wrote to us. |
| 1:06.0 | Hi, Aaron and Justin. My brother Ed Sousa is an army vet served in Iraq with the third infantry |
| 1:12.0 | division, three seven calorie in 2003 and 2005. He was medically retired as a staff sergeant in 2009 |
| 1:19.7 | due to injuries sustaining combat. He passed away suddenly on March 4, 2022 due to an accidental |
| 1:26.4 | overdose. She goes on to talk about how he had developed an addiction because he was self-medicating |
| 1:32.0 | his PTSD and his pain and his depression. And she went on to talk about how he was a huge gen-wide |
| 1:39.9 | listener and she's actually the one that got him into the podcast and this is something they would |
| 1:44.3 | talk about together. And she recently went to Massachusetts to lay him to rest with her |
| 1:49.5 | husband. She said they listened to the podcast there and back because that's what Ed would be doing |
| 1:54.4 | if he could. I don't know what to say, Justin. You never know the effect you have on people. |
| 1:59.2 | It's definitely something that touched us when we read this. And the least we can do is give |
| 2:04.9 | this little tribute to Ed and try and remember him because he seemed like a good guy and his |
| 2:12.5 | sister cared about him very much. It's a very similar story to my sister who was self-medicating |
| 2:19.6 | and sadly my uncle just passed away and he and his wife, Ficki, would listen to my podcast |
| 2:28.2 | all the time together and I hope it still brings her some solace and comfort even if he's not |
| 2:35.4 | around too. Listen also. So Jessica, thank you for writing in about your brother. It means a lot |
| 2:41.3 | that for whatever reason that generation Y has been a part of your life and his life and you have |
| 2:48.0 | our sincerest condolences. And Justin, we also want to give a shout out to one of our listeners |
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