October 2nd, 2007
Birmingham, Alabama

October 4^th, 2006        HUNTSVILLE

John Powell was charged with making terrorist threats to two Madison County schools, New Hope High School and Owens Cross Roads Elementary School. Powell, who had been facing domestic violence charges in court, had been reportedly having marital problems. Powell's wife reportedly is employed at the one of the schools and their children attend each school. In the calls, he allegedly stated that he was armed and was on his way to the school. Police were able to trace the phone calls to Powell's workplace.

August 19th, 2006    Alexander City

Around  4:30 Nghia Tran kidnapped Bien Son, 30, of Alexander City, at the Wal-Mart where she worked. Tran then took Son to a motel in Georgia, where she told police he sexually assaulted her. Her husband picked her up and took her back to their Alabama home. Police there said they didn't know why the couple waited three days to report the kidnapping and assault. It was on the following Thursday that Tran killed Son as she sat in her car with her husband and 2 year old son.

July 19^th, 2003     Birmingham

Henry Earl Byrd Jr., of Pink Hill, N.C., hired two Tennessee teenagers over the Internet to kidnap his ex-partner, Tina Goode, outside her workplace at the Eastwood Mall parking lot. The plan was for them to take Goode to a hotel, where Byrd could watch her die. He promised to pay the teens $1.75 million. The teenagers approached her as she went to her car and told them that they had her daughter. She denied that she had a daughter, walked away and called the police.  The police soon captured the teens as they returned to the scene.  They led police to Goode who was waiting in the motel.

Bobby Guillory shot and killed his estranged wife, Kathy Guillory before shooting himself because she refused to reconcile their broken marriage. He used a single-shot .410 gauge shotgun but had to reload twice as he murdered her. He then reloaded a last time before shooting himself in the chest. The crime took place soon after the woman arrived to work at about 8:30 a.m. as her ex-husband walked into the office with the shotgun. According to a witness, "He just walked in and went into her office and dragged her out by her shirt and her hair. She was saying she would go back to him, that she loved him, trying to calm him down, and all he said was 'where are your keys.' He must have been watching because she was 10 minutes late for work and he came in right after. I saw him walking across the parking lot, holding the gun by the barrel. He walked into her office and dragged her out. He shot her, loaded and shot again, and loaded and shot again. Then he loaded and shot himself." The witness said the victim had a restraining order against her ex-husband.

September 22, 1995       ELMORE COUNTY

Mildred Harris was working at a Captain D's fast-food restaurant. Harris informed her manager on duty, that her husband had beaten, choked, and threatened her the night before. She also told him that she was afraid of her husband and that she did not want to talk to him and requested that he call the police if her husband came into the restaurant that night. As Harris had feared, her husband came to the Captain D's where she was working that night. He went to the back of the restaurant, where he confronted his wife and threatened "to get her." Management telephoned the police, who escorted the husband out of the restaurant. The next day, Harris called in and asked to be excused from work that night. They told her to come into work and assured her that if her husband showed up, she would call the police. Harris reported to work as instructed and was assigned to work at the front counter. At some point during her shift, her husband walked into the restaurant, pulled out a pistol, and shot her in the back of the head. She died as a result of the gunshot wound.

A lawsuit was brought by the survivors but was thrown out by the AL Supreme Court (Carroll v. Shoney's Inc. d/b/a/ Captain D's (Ala. 2000).

Benefits for Attendees

CEU's for Professional licenses

Model Policies and Procedures

Your Legal Responsibilities as an Employer

Warning signs of victims and abusers

How to approach, refer and support victims

How to protect the workplace

Break-Out Sessions

Best Practices � Kim Wells

Abusers in the Workplace � Ellen Ridley

Security Issues � Gene Rugala

Legal Issues � Robin Runge

Case Review Exercises Program � Johnny Lee

Economic Justice Issues � Deborah Widiss

Workforce Development Study � Lisa McKean and Kelly Starr

Micro-enterprise, Individual Development Accounts � Shirley Worthington

Studies show that 1 in 4 women experience physical violence from an intimate partner at some point in their lives.

 75% of the women killed on the job (non-robbery) were murdered by a former intimate partner.

 Nationally, homicide is the second leading cause of death for women on the job with 20% of those having been murdered by their partner.

 Businesses lose an estimated $727.8 million in productivity with over 7.9 million paid workdays lost annually because of intimate partner violence.

Please contact Johnny Lee at [email protected]