For twenty years, Bill Livezey led a double life rubbing shoulders with some of Maine’s worst wildlife offenders; the kinds of people who not only live by the poacher’s mantra “if it’s brown, it’s down,” but many who were dangerously unstable felons, alcoholics, and drug abusers - his success at putting bad guys out of business stemming largely from his early years as one of them. Since retiring in 2020 as the Maine Warden Service’s longest-tenured covert operative, he has co-written Let’s Go For a Ride, a captivating chronicle of both a life undercover, and a life transformed.
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Here’s what we discuss:
· “Let’s go for a ride” - the universal bad guy code
· Desire for wealth sent his father down a dark road
· From successful businessman to meth dealer
· Hired a hit man to kill his own brother
· Ultimately died in a confrontation with police
· Young Bill loved sports and the outdoors, but was using drugs regularly by 15
· Spiraling out of control: “I was broken.”
· Positive influences and an invitation from a teammate changed everything
· Unity college and riding with the game warden
· An extra-long warden service polygraph
· Applying as many times as it takes
· The young game warden who knew all the tricks
· Experience as a juvenile lent itself to undercover work
· Befriending, then arresting poachers was a psychological struggle
· “Pull over! I’m an undercover game warden!”
· Relationships have to feel real; some were easy, some not so much
· Undercover work was difficult to step away from
· Some cases were especially taxing
· The fear of being discovered
· The book brings the reader into each case
Credits
Hosts: Wayne Saunders and John Nores
Producer: Jay Ammann
Art & Design: Ashley Hannett
Research / Content Coordinator: Stacey DesRoches
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