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Junction City Justice
Tales of history and policing in and around Ogden City, Utah. From the railroad junction population explosion to the modern day. Electric Alley in all its shady glory and the evolution of 25th Street. A deep dive into the history of those who’ve walked Ogden’s streets and has their stories buried in its history. We are dusting off the stories, the events of Ogden’s past and in doing so, shaking the hands of these people who made Ogden the unique city that it is. We do exhaustive research to bring you these stories in the vernacular and parlance of the newspapers and documents written at the time.
We read directly from these articles and documents verbatim, and we do this because it is important to keep an unfiltered view of history. In doing so, we might repeat words or situations that may be offensive to the listener. We ask that you understand that we are trying to bring you the history as it was, good or bad, offensive, or not. It doesn’t represent the opinions of anyone at the Junction City Justice Podcast, it represents the person who wrote at the time it was written. Our view is that history is what it is and we will bring it to you unfiltered. We do not represent any law enforcement agencies, officially or unofficially. Our opinions are ours and history is what it is.
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Junction City Justice
The Man Who Took Down Serial Killers....Also Known As Pop
William Kerr Milligan, known to most as "Bill" or "Captain Bill", but to Mike St. James, he was "Pop", grandfather extraordinaire. Here we visit with the legacy of a Scotch-Irish immigrant who makes his own way coming to America at age 11. In this episode, which takes place in the late 20's into the 50's, we'll visit the dichotomy of a Man who is tasked with investigating the horrific slayings of females on a Thursday and is there to take his adoring grandson to baseball games on a Saturday and the inner strength he displayed that went unspoken, but is very much apparent through his history.
Mike St. James has a way with words in describing "Pop" that are so vivid that he will take you back to Pop's living room while he sits in his chair smoking his pipe and reading his newspaper. Join us as we shake hands through the past decades with Bill Milligan as he rose from the rough streets of Junction City in the late 20's walking a foot beat to Captain of Detectives investigating two sexual predator serial killers at practically the same time. Hollywood couldn't have written a better story than the one that played out in real life, and we'd be remiss if we didn't mention he served in the US Army in the campaign in Mexico to capture Pancho Villa and WWI, and later the US Navy in WWII. Public Service personified.
We are honored that Mike St. James took the time to share "Pop" with the rest of us, and may we all aspire to be a little more like Bill/Pop. Pay attention for some cameo appearances from some of our past episodes.
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