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20 | February 27, 2020 | 22nd century media active aging part one
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Will County Coroner’s Office
candidate has needed experience
A man carrying four
badges on his shirt is willing
to trade them all in
for one powerful badge:
the gold badge of the Will
County Coroner. Bolingbrook
Police Sergeant
Sean Talbot has been
serving Will County as a
first responder for nearly
30 years. He hopes that
his lifetime of career preparedness
will earn the
votes of Will County voters
on March 17.
Democrat candidate
Sean P. Talbot, 53, has
spent the last 29 years
of his life wearing many
hats, serving Will County
as a first responder on
many different levels. He
is currently a sergeant at
the Bolingbrook Police
Department. He began his
law enforcement career at
Shorewood Police Department
in 1990. Police work
was not enough for him,
so Talbot began his volunteer
firefighter career as a
Troy fireman/EMT, then
moved to Plainfield and
became a Plainfield fireman.
The growth of Will
County caused these departments
to hire part-time
employees and eventually
full-time firefighters. Talbot
continued to work as
a part-time Plainfield fireman
and is currently employed
as a part-time Troy
firefighter/EMT.
Talbot has spent the past
30 years as a volunteer
and part-time firefighter/
EMT, holding the rank of
lieutenant in Will County.
He is a state-certified fire/
arson investigator through
the University of Illinois
Fire Service Institute and a
member of the Division 15
Fire/Arson Investigations
Task Force.
Like all police officers,
Talbot began his career
in the patrol division. He
eventually was assigned
to the Investigations Division
where he became lead
homicide certified. He also
became a special investigator
with the Will/Grundy
County Major Crimes
Task Force. This is a position
every area detective
strives to be selected
to be a part of. Talbot has
also held the title of crime
scene investigator, attending
Northwestern University
Center for Public
Safety Crime Scene Investigations
I, II, and III. Talbot
also held the position
of SWAT and sniper team
leader for Bolingbrook Police
Department.
As an investigator, Talbot
was one of the first investigators
to successfully
obtain charges against
drug dealers on two drug
induced homicide cases
in Will County. Talbot
said the heroin epidemic
continues to plague Will
County, and his firsthand
knowledge in handling
these cases will assist him
in his new role as the Will
County Coroner.
The Joliet Catholic
Academy and Purdue University
graduate believes
his lifetime experience
has more than prepared
him for his next journey as
serving the county as the
coroner. He’s played a part
in investigating more than
1,000 deaths throughout
his career.
Until recently, Talbot allowed
time to be employed
part-time by the Will
County Coroner’s office
for 18 years as a deputy
coroner. This part-time job
furthered his career into
the studies of death investigations.
The Will/Grundy
County Major Crimes
Task force sent Talbot as a
representative of the Coroner’s
Office to the University
of Tennessee’s forensic
anthropology outdoor
recovery course, commonly
referred to as “the body
farm.” At this week-long
training, Talbot learned the
extensive research behind
body decomposition and
many causes of deaths.
Talbot and Detectives
from all over the United
States spent the week recovering
bodies from the
surface, as well as a full
exhumation, studying the
many different levels of
decomposition, as well as
trauma and possible causes
of deaths. They gained a
better understanding of the
decomposition process,
developed techniques for
extracting information on
timing and circumstances
surrounding the death of
the human remains they
recovered from the burial
sites. Talbot also learned
the proper ways to document
the recoveries in
preparation for criminal or
civil litigation. Talbot described
this experience as
both eye opening and life
changing, a “once in a lifetime
experience.”
If elected, Talbot has
plans to bring the Coroner’s
Office into the 21st
century. This would include
technology updates,
training updates, physical
plant updates and expanding
the office to better
cover the east side of the
county. He also aspires to
hire more coroner’s deputies,
which would reduce
response times for families
and law enforcement,
and adding a facility for
holding decedents in the
east side of Will County.
He strives to have full
transparency of all of the
coroner operations for
Will County residents. He
wants to successfully address
the opioid epidemic
and plans to reduce the
number of opioid deaths
in the county. He hopes
to achieve all of the above
mentioned with government
grant funding, so
as not to impact the Will
County residents financially.
Talbot stated his opponent
in the primary election,
Democratic candidate
Laurie Summers, has no
previous death investigation
experience. Summers
was hired by the Coroner’s
Office only in October,
2019, as a deputy chief
coroner, a position Talbot
declined. Talbot will face
Summers in the primary
election March 17. Talbot
encourages voters to
educate themselves on the
experience between he and
Summers before casting
their vote.
Submitted by Friends to Elect
Sean Talbot for Will County
Coroner. For more information,
visit seantalbotforcoroner.com..
Deuser
for State
Senate
August Deuser is the 2nd
Precinct Committeeman in
Frankfort Township and is
running for State Senate in
the 19th District on March
17. He is running as a
write-in candidate because
he was knocked off the
ballot by the bad guys. August
was a third-generation
police officer before he
went back to the University
of Illinois an earned his
teaching degree. He taught
special education students
for 25 years while earning
his master’s in educational
administration from
Lewis University. His wife
of 38 years and their two
sons also graduated from
Lewis University. Deuser
is pro-second amendment,
pro-life, pro-education and
pro-police. Visit his website
at deuser.us.
Paid for by Citizens for
August Deuser.
Submitted by Citizens for
August Deuser. For more
information, visit deuser.us.