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You can rehearse the perfect response a thousand times and still lock up when it’s real. Tonight I’m digging into the uncomfortable space between who we think we are in a crisis and what our nervous system actually lets us do when fear, adrenaline, and chaos hit all at once. If you’ve ever watched a tragedy unfold and thought, “I would’ve done something,” this conversation will challenge that assumption and give you a better framework than hindsight.

I share a personal story from a scuba dive in the Hood Can...

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A lot of people talk tough about self-defense online, right up until they’re forced to answer one terrifying question: were you actually justified to use force, especially deadly force? We take a hard, practical look at justifiable homicide, self-defense law, and third party defense through the lens of real shootings and the way investigators evaluate a split-second decision after the fact.

I’m Aaron, a retired police officer, and I break down Oregon Revised Statute 161.219 in plain English so you can understand what the law is really protecting and what it i...

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I almost ended Murders to Music last week. I recorded what would have been the final episode, uploaded it, walked away in tears, and then pulled it before anyone could hear it. Not for clicks. Not for drama. Because I couldn’t shake the feeling that I might regret quitting something I love, even while I’m exhausted and running on fumes.

I talk honestly about what’s been happening in my head and in my life: the travel, the packed calendar that looks like a rainbow of obligations, and the slow s...

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A city burns for 36 hours, 100,000 people lose their homes, and a century later you’re still feeling the ripple effects every time you walk into a restroom. We start with the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, cut through the cow-and-lantern myth, and look at why Chicago was built to ignite and how the city used disaster as a chance to rebuild stronger. Then we zoom out to the Peshtigo Fire, the deadliest wildfire on the same night, and ask why one tragedy dominates the history books while the other barely gets mentioned.

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The first story you hear is usually the most convincing and the least reliable. We’ve sat across from suspects, witnesses, and victims for years, and one pattern keeps showing up: people lead with a version they’ve rehearsed, simplified, or shaped to sound clean. That doesn’t automatically mean they’re lying, but it does mean we can’t treat the opening narrative like the full truth.

We walk through how this shows up on the street and in the interview room, starting with a call that sounds small a barking do...

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The most dangerous lie a lot of us live with is “I’m fine.” From the outside, Glenn Evans looked successful: respected in Alaska’s commercial construction world, always the fun guy on work trips, always pushing through. On the inside, he was carrying years of foster care abuse, PTSD flashbacks, addiction patterns, and the kind of loneliness that can turn “getting by” into a slow collapse.

We talk through Glenn’s story from the beginning, including what it was like to be placed in foster care as a child, how trauma reshape...

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“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me” is one of the biggest lies we learn as kids. I’m Aaron, and I’m putting that saying on trial with real memories that still carry weight decades later, because the truth is simple: words don’t just sting, they stick. And once they stick, they can shape how you see your body, your abilities, and your place in the world.

I start with a story from my own house a split-second Halloween scare I thought was funny. My...

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A single newspaper dated September 12, 2001 can stop you cold. Holding that headline is like holding a time capsule from the first morning after 9/11, when America was grieving, scared, and trying to figure out what the next hour would bring, let alone the next 25 years. That’s where we start: not with a history lecture, but with a conversation about time, perspective, uncertainty, service, and the kind of loss that splits life into “before” and “after.”

I share where I was when the world stopped turning: standing in a Walmart electronics department in Phoenix...

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A badge on your chest feels big until the job reminds you how new you really are. We take you back to the earliest days of our law enforcement career in Kenai, Alaska, where small-town policing means you don’t get a narrow role or a slow ramp. One moment you’re dreaming about patrol, the next you’re expected to run a death investigation, work a crime scene, write the reports, do the interviews, and carry the case into court.

We also get brutally honest about how the community responds when y...

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“Forever” sounds different when you’ve spent decades standing in the aftermath of tragedy. Aaron opens up about why working weddings now hits him so hard and why he often drives home carrying the weight of other people’s vows. After years in law enforcement seeing the endings of relationships, he now stands at the beginnings, listening closely as couples promise faithfulness, patience, and a lifetime of choosing each other.

We get real about what those words reveal once the party lights fade. Weddings have become a mirror, making us ask uncomfor...

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The hardest part of growth is admitting you can’t keep living on adrenaline. After two seasons built on raw stories of trauma, PTSD, loss, and resilience, I’m back to launch season three of Murders to Music with a different kind of promise: we’re not pretending the past didn’t happen, but we’re also not living there anymore. If you’ve ever felt like your rearview mirror takes up more space than your windshield, this season is for you.  

I break down what’s changing and why. Season three shifts fr...

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You can tell the truth about trauma without living there forever and that is the line we draw as Murders to Music steps into season three. After years of conversations centered on loss, PTSD, healing, and identity, we are choosing something brave: a forward-facing life. I am Aaron Turnage, a retired homicide detective and 21-year police officer, and I built this show on honesty, transparency, vulnerability, and zero fluff. Now we are taking that same approach into a new chapter focused on living and thriving.  

Season three brings on people who h...

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I thought this would be a quick snapshot, but it turns into something heavier and more honest. A new job has me traveling back to Alaska, the place I was born and raised, and it’s strange how time changes the story. When I left, I couldn’t wait to be gone. Now I’m back four or five times a year, and every trip makes me love the state more. Coming home doesn’t just bring scenery and nostalgia, though. It brings the parts of your life you tried to outgrow.

I en...

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After 160 weekly releases and two full seasons, I’m making a choice that’s easy to judge from the outside and hard to do from the mic: I’m taking a short break. I walk you through what’s behind that decision, from the pressure of never missing a week to the reality that constant vulnerability can start to feel repetitive when you’re forcing yourself to perform your own story on demand.  

I also go back to where Murders to Music began, a season of survival, healing, PTSD, and identity rebuilding...

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Two years ago, I hit record because I didn’t know what else to do with the pain. I was coming out of law enforcement against my will, carrying the weight of homicide and child abuse work, and trying to make sense of a nervous system stuck in survival mode. This anniversary is me pulling the curtain back and telling you what changed, what didn’t, and why this podcast became a lifeline for me and, apparently, for some of you too.

I talk about the highs and lows of the last...

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What would change if you could sit down with your 25-year-old self and tell the truth before the bills, the burnout, and the busy years take over? I’m Aaron, and this solo conversation is a straight, personal look at the lessons I learned the hard way while building a demanding career, raising three kids, and realizing I wasn’t always emotionally present in my own home. It’s reflective, faith-forward, and meant to spark a real gut check about what actually matters.

We talk about career and identity, including the painfu...

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A barking dog call is never just a barking dog call. That single idea explains why so many cops struggle to relax, sleep, or truly feel present at home, even when the uniform comes off. From the first moments of the show, we share a personal checkpoint: taking a real vacation after leaving law enforcement and realizing decompression does not have to take weeks when your nervous system is no longer stuck on duty-grade alert. 

We get candid about family dynamics and the way conflict at home can hit like a f...

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A single local headline can light up the internet like a flare, and suddenly everyone is a detective, a trainer, and a judge. From a vacation in Mexico, we watch that exact dynamic unfold after breaking news reports an off-duty deputy in Vancouver, Washington shoots an aggressive dog. The story is simple, but the comment section is not, and the gap between real-world threat assessment and online certainty is where things get ugly fast.

We dig into why “no body cam” turns into instant suspicion, and why people who have never face...

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I’m recording from the Hard Rock Hotel in Riviera Maya, Mexico, looking out at the ocean and thinking about how weird life is. Murders to Music usually leans hard into the “murders” side, but today I pull the camera back to the other half of the name and tell the story I’ve somehow never told out loud: how drumming became the thread that kept me anchored when life got dark, and how that passion turned into a real-world career in live music and weddings.

It starts in Alaska with oil indu...

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Three sharp bangs, a violent shudder, and a keel that sounds like a tree snapping across a giant’s knee. That’s how Douglas remembers the moment killer whales hit his family’s wooden yacht in the Pacific Ocean and turned a round-the-world dream into a survival crisis with no SOS, no shipping lanes, and only days of water.

We trace the story from a remote English hill farm to buying the schooner Lucette, learning seamanship on the fly, and roaming from the Caribbean to Miami to the Galapagos. Then everything flips...

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If you’ve ever felt like you’re falling behind in a room full of people who “get it,” this conversation hits close. We sit down with Ryan McDonald, a pastor in the Vancouver, Washington and Portland, Oregon area, who grew up with serious reading struggles and dyslexia, carried crushing shame, and learned to hide it so well that even friends didn’t know. He takes us back to the moments that formed his self-image: getting left behind in school, the dread of being forced to read out loud, and the quiet belief that he ha...

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You can feel it when your podcast is due for a refresh, even if nothing is technically broken. After 145 episodes opening Murders to Music the same way, I get curious: what happens if I let AI rewrite my intro and I actually perform the options out loud? The result is part experiment, part creative gut check, and a surprisingly useful look at what “brand voice” really means in audio.

I ask ChatGPT for a stack of podcast intro scripts in different styles, then read them like a real host would: clean and...

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A car crash at 19 leaves Victoria with a high spinal cord injury, and the life she planned disappears in an instant. Years later, a hemorrhagic stroke at the base of her brainstem nearly takes her again. What follows is not a highlight reel. It’s a clear-eyed story of trauma, identity loss, and the gritty, daily decisions that make recovery and resilience possible.

We talk through the moment the gear shift fails, the terrifying rush of emergency care, and the hard truth that surgery can stabilize your body without giving you yo...

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A single phone call can erase a career, even after two decades of service. That’s the gut punch David, a British Army veteran from Scotland, describes when a medical board tells him to stop working immediately and begin resettlement. Add unresolved trauma, chronic injuries, and the pressure of pandemic support work tied to the NHS, and you get a story that hits every nerve in veteran transition, identity crisis, and mental health.

David takes us back to the first moment his nervous system learned what “not safe” feels like: performing CPR on...

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We share a short snapshot built around David Jarvis, a former British soldier who turns a medical discharge, PTSD and a type 1 diabetes diagnosis into a new mission. His Scottish Parliament speech lands one clear lesson: when challenges keep stacking up, your goal has to be big enough to hold your focus.
• David Jarvis’s background and why his story matters
• A medical discharge and the mental crash that follows
• Finding purpose through veterans’ charities and the Invictus Games
• A sudden life-threatening illness and type 1 diabetes diagnosis
• “The significance of...

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He thought he was just chasing recovery through sport, then his body started failing in a way he couldn’t explain. Our guest, British Army veteran and Invictus Games gold medalist David Jarvis, walks us through the moment fatigue, thirst, rapid weight loss, and a shocking drop in cycling performance turned into a diagnosis that nearly killed him: diabetic ketoacidosis and type 1 diabetes.

We get practical about what “constant management” really means. David breaks down blood sugar monitoring, insulin, carb awareness, and the two dangers every type 1 diabetic learns to fear: hypogl...

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I had a Turning Point series plan that looked perfect on paper: bring on a married couple, go straight at the hard parts, then spotlight the moment they rebuilt their relationship. Then reality hit. Finding people who can be truly open, honest, and vulnerable on a mic, without turning their pain into bragging or content, is harder than it sounds, and I refuse to fake it just to publish on time.

So I pull back the curtain on what I’m looking for in these stories and why the show prioritizes tr...

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One injury can take the job, but the quiet afterward can take your sense of self. Aaron sits down with Tommy, a career law enforcement officer and 9/11 first responder, to unpack what it really feels like when your tribe disappears and you’re left on an island with your own thoughts, your pain, and a life that no longer recognizes you.

Tommy traces his path from a first generation Italian American upbringing in New York to high intensity policing in Baltimore, then a lateral move to Montgomery County that brings a di...

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What if the measure of success isn’t the sale but the person across the table? We open up about a hard pivot from product-first tactics to people-first presence, sharing how a therapist’s straight talk, a return to Alaska’s handshake culture, and three powerful encounters reoriented our work and our lives.

First, we relive our son’s 0% survival odds and months in a Portland NICU—and the goosebump moment years later when a coworker revealed his mom was Nurse Nancy, the one who dressed our boy in his first outfit on...

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When your inner fire alarm never shuts off, life shrinks to surviving the next minute. Aaron opens up about years of hypervigilance as a homicide detective, how his brain flattened during crises, and why the words fight, flight, and freeze finally gave shape to what he felt inside. This is a plainspoken, unflinching look at PTSD, denial, and the moment a doctor’s blunt truth forced him to stop running long enough to heal.

We walk through the science in simple terms—how the survival brain protects you, how the everyday brai...

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The story changes the moment you decide it will. We’re kicking off a focused journey into that split second—the hinge where pain stops leading and purpose steps forward—with the Turning Point series, a 10-part run designed to help you pinpoint the exact moment your life began to shift. Instead of mining trauma for drama, we zero in on clarity: the scene, the words, the belief that broke, and the first small action that proved a new direction was possible.

Across this season, we sit with people who’ve faced id...

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A five-year countdown can warp every choice you make—until the clock itself is wrong. We sit down with Dwayne to unpack an 18.5-year odyssey that began with a rare blood cancer diagnosis, detoured through a near-death police shootout, and ended with a stunning reframe: a seventh doctor identifying severe sleep apnea instead. What follows is a raw, moving story about wasted potential, reclaimed purpose, and the quiet power of choosing your response when certainty disappears.

Dwayne takes us back to a small Kentucky town where resilience first took root—aiming at s...

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Some days the sound of a car in the driveway brings relief. Other days it spikes your pulse. We go straight into the messy middle of long-term commitment—how early bliss turns into friction, why quitting can look smarter than staying, and what it really takes to hold a marriage together when the feelings are thin. With stories from 27 years together, we talk about the moments we were both ready to run, the grace of a partner who refused to let go, and the quiet role faith played when logic and emotion said “leav...

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Some moments hit like a siren you can’t silence. Joe spent 12 years in Fire and EMS, living at full tilt and loving the work—until a distracted driver pulled out, and a normal ride turned into a catalog of injuries: shattered arm, broken ribs and spine, a punctured lung, a traumatic brain injury. The uniform didn’t just come off; it vanished. What do you do when the title that once defined you disappears?

We sit with Joe to trace the real turning point: not the crash itself, but the messy...

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A clear morning in the Arizona high desert, a ridgeline plan for javelina, and a mind primed by campfire talk about mountain lions—then the brush explodes. What follows is a split-second cascade of choices: a rifle swings from the hip, a safety clicks off, and silence. The bolt is out of battery, the target is airborne, and instinct takes over as a sidearm does what the primary won’t. When the dust settles, the “lion” is a fox, the ankle throbs, and a hard truth stands out: in wild places, perception can be as da...

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A Valentine’s date to the local sportsman show took an unexpected turn when I rounded a corner and found my old police department at a booth. Handshakes, hugs, and shared jokes felt like time travel—then the flood hit. I left smiling and walked away shaken, second-guessing, and grieving a version of myself I’d buried under “I’m fine.”

This episode is a raw, thoughtful walk through identity, tribe, and the nervous system’s need for safety. I talk about what I truly miss—the people, the mission, the shorthand—not th...