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Season 1 Episodes
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Bonus Episodes
Ed on other podcasts
Merch
Meet the Host
Fighting the Good Fight
Reading List
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  • Home
  • Season 1 Episodes
  • Season 2 Episodes
  • Bonus Episodes
  • Ed on other podcasts
  • Merch
  • Meet the Host
  • Fighting the Good Fight
  • Reading List

  • Home
  • Season 1 Episodes
  • Season 2 Episodes
  • Bonus Episodes
  • Ed on other podcasts
  • Merch
  • Meet the Host
  • Fighting the Good Fight
  • Reading List

S2 - Episode 13

Ambush!

In 1962, USFWS Agent Vic Blasevic was ambushed by poachers and shot twice at close range. Join Ed and retired Special Agent Jerry Smith as they talk about who Vic was, what he was like, and how he survived those harrowing events on a dark a cold Illinois cornfield. Ed will relay the story of Vic's ambush straight from notes he took during an interview Ed had with Vic before he died. If you only listen to one episode of this podcast, this is the one you should listen to. CORRECTION - This episode references the Central Flyway but should have referenced the Mississippi Flyway.

Photos and documents

Vic Blazevic's Tombstone.

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Robert Motley's Murder Conviction

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Newspaper story about the bombing

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Robert Eugene Motley not long before his death in 2021.

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