Episode 2.10 (Patrick Reynolds): Generations of Service: The Story of a Cleveland Police Family

In season two of the "Finding Home" podcast series, Irish American Archives Society Executive Director Margaret Lynch interviews an array of Clevelanders with specialized knowledge and stories about the history of the Irish in Cleveland. This episode features an interview with Patrick Reynolds. Patrick Reynolds is a retired detective sergeant of the the Cleveland Police Department and President of the Board of Trustees of the Cleveland Police Museum. Reynolds shares information about the Museum collections and its research services--from displays about Eliot Ness and the Kingsbury Run torso murders to help documenting a family member's police service. Reynolds also reflects on his own years of high profile work on the department's bomb squad and hostage negotiating team, on his extended family's more than 100 years of service on the force, and on the camaraderie that led to the formation of the Retired Irish Police Society.