Raymond Mileur:  

I have been very blessed. I've got to do about everything I've wanted to do. Starting with growing up in the Sheriff's office, to becoming a private investigator and a sports publisher. Along the way I served in the US Marine Corps as an Investigator with JAG, before the TV show made it cool to be one. (For the record none of the partners I had looked like Catherine Bell from the TV series.) Plus being a city councilman, association executive, an entertainer and missionary show up on my resume. Most recently I served as the Police Chief and Director of Public Safety in Johnston City. Currently I'm working on series of novels based on my cases as a St. Louis based private investigator, running my hobby ranch "Lone Star Acres" and do some investigative consultanting and security work. Always a cowboy, at least, I wore the white hat (the good guy), got to go to professional bull riding school at the age of 40, thank God it wasn't 4 years long. I was very popular among my classmates, I was voted Most Likely to Get Killed. (The bulls didn't seem to care about me much and my white hat kept getting dirty, I asked if I could ride bulls my own age) I served on the City Council with our high school principal, Mr.Bowers, which was kinda strange. I kept thinking I was going to have to stand in the corner if I disagreed with him. Plus, I think I still owe him two days of detention. Actually I was the Mayor for one weekend when Mayor Sydney Appleton was out of town. I stayed up all weekend, so not to miss a minute of my administration. For the record, the city never ran as smooth as it did that weekend. People are still talking about it, (if you include me in the people category). For 5 years, I was a professional headliner comedian (Leon the Bad Boy of Comedy.) My Outlaw Comedy Tour of 94, took me to Chicago, Denver, Nashville, Indianapolis, Springfield, Jefferson City, Detroit, St. Louis, Louisville, Memphis, and Krogers (you have to eat). I was funny, really, I mean really funny! I'm probably best known as the founder and past publisher of a St. Louis Cardinals website in association with Scout.com and Fox Sports. I retired from this venture after being invited to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, by former St. Louis Cardinals' manager Billy Southworth's family, to represent them at the induction ceremonies for Billy the Kid. SCHOOL MTHS, I really didn't spend much time there. I started working at the Sheriff's Office at the age of 13 by the time I was 15 with a learners permit, I was driving squad cars and spending ALL my time at the Sheriff's Dept. The Class of '73 was a great class and I had a great childhood, no doubt. Growing up, driving police cars, gun fights, making drug busts, catching bad guys, etc. but looking back, I wish I would have spent a little more time at school, being a regular teenager. No badges, no guns, no handcuffs. Ok, let me keep the handcuffs. No one, today, believes what I did at the Sheriff's office, anyway. I wouldn't believe it, if I hadn't lived it. So if I missed out getting to know you, send me an email and give me a second chance. COLLEGE It took 29 years to finish college, attending courses and programs all over the world, to finish with a Degree in Practical Ministry and Criminal Justice. Education should be a lifelong pursuit and I'm still working towards my doctorate. Maybe this time it won't take 29 years, I hope. (I can't imagine Spring Break in Florida when I'm in my 70s.) WORKPLACE In high school, I wrote down all the things that I wanted to do in life, it included, being a police officer, a minister, an entertainer, a US Marine, work for the FBI, be a Cowboy, drive an 18 wheeler, be a reporter and an oceanographer (probably spelle...Expand for more