In this powerful and somber episode of the monthly Rutherford County District Attorney’s Show on the WGNS Action Line, host J. Paul Newman is joined by a distinguished panel of Rutherford County experts to confront the harrowing reality of elder abuse within the community.
The program opens with a chilling 911 call that revisits the brutal 2009 murder of 81-year-old Lorraine Van Blarcom, who was killed by her son, Roger G. Van Blarcom. Her own son beat her to death with a bat.
In the original, haunting call to dispatchers, which you’ll hear on the podcast above this description, the victim’s son remained calm as he told authorities he wanted to report what he called a premeditated first-degree murder. While on the initial call to 911, the man expresses a cold-blooded intent to “finish her off,” further showing the absolute necessity of intervention in cases like this and the gravity of the mission facing the Rutherford County District Attorney’s Office…