Who needs a gun and a badge when you have a microphone and a voice?
Jamie Pultz
remembers distinctly the night he was on police patrol and responded to a domestic violence situation. How could this young ex-cop forget the night he met Kirra McLoughlin, the young mother of four who was so obviously in distress yet refused to press charges against her boyfriend?
"We basically had to walk away and she died several months later," Pultz recalled in an interview with
Dakota Spotlight Podcast
.
By the time he learned that Kirra McLoughlin had died and nothing was being done about it, Jamie Pultz had already become disenchanted with his career as a cop and had left the force. "I kind of had this burnout . . . not necessarily with the job but with the politics, bureaucracy and work load," Pultz recalled from his home in Queensland, Australia. Today, he has changed gears and works in a family business producing soap. "I went from fighting crime . . . to fighting grime," Pultz jokes.
But his lighthearted laughter vanishes abruptly when it comes to the subject of domestic violence and injustice. Committed to finding out what happened to Kirra McLoughlin, Pultz got serious and started
Six 10 Media
. His podcast
Beenham Valley Road
uncovers new information about McLoughlin's tragic death and has pushed the justice system forward. Listen to Dakota Spotlight's interview with Jamie Pultz and watch the two part documentary.
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Dakota Spotlight speaks with Jamie Pultz producer and host of the podcast Beenham Valley Road.
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Two-part documentary about Jamie's quest to get justice for Kirra McLoughlin
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