All the pain, all the pain.

Hey, Crime Sal listeners. Welcome back to another episode of Crime Salad where we talk true crime.

I'm your host Ashley and with me always is my partner in crime Ricky.

If you noticed in the title, we are doing a throwback this week.

It's an oldie, but definitely a goodie.

And we're re-sharing this case for a very good reason.

The month of October is domestic violence awareness month.

Just a reminder, anyone can be an advocate for domestic violence.

You don't have to be a professional.

The more we educate ourselves on this sometimes uncomfortable subject, the more we can break the repeating pattern.

So do your homework and you can visit the hotline.org to educate yourself on this very topic.

The story that we're sharing today is Gretchen Anthony's story.

It's a very hard one to hear, but it's a case that reminds us if you see something or hear something, say something.

As we know it can be sometimes scary or very hard to get involved as a bystander,

but a call to police witnessing what you heard or saw could be huge for someone who is experiencing domestic violence and could even be life-saving.

Now, one interesting thing that we learn in this episode is you can't actually reach 911 through a smart speaker like Alexa or Google Home.

This applies to the US. I'm not really sure about other countries.

And the reasoning is due to regulatory compliance by the Federal Communications Commission or the FCC

that requires 911 capable devices to provide both location data and a callback number, which for Alexa, that's something that they opted out of.

To allow a smart speaker to have the ability to call emergency services, you have to set it up.

Sometimes it's with an additional device or a subscription service.

So if you want to be on the safe side and you want to have that available to you, you can look up how to set that up,

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