FBI Retired Case File Review

Shaffer reviews the multi-agency response to apprehend the D.C. Snipers, later identified as John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, the men responsible for the random shootings of ten people in the Washington D.C. area during 23 days in October of 2002. He also discusses role of the HRT, and provides safety tips, especially for when confronted by an active shooter.

Retired agent Weysan Dun reviews a case targeting an extremist group espousing Posse Comitatus rhetoric and white supremacist views. Initially, under investigation for weapons and interstate theft violations, the leader, Michael Ryan, his fifteen-year-old son Dennis, and others were charged and convicted of the violent and horrific deaths of two group members.

Former agent Scott Larson reviews the Solar Sunrise case where, as the lead investigator, he tracked cyber intrusions into more than 200 Department of Defense (DoD) computer systems. The highly sensitive international investigation revealed the identities of the culprits responsible for the hacking and data breach of military sites initially thought to be the work of hostile foreign entities.

Retired FBI agent Oliver “Buck” Revell reviews the Dallas Division’s investigation into allegations of dirty tricks during the 1992 presidential primary involving the campaigns of President George H. W. Bush and candidate Ross Perot. Buck Revell also discusses the important but precarious role of the FBI in investigating criminal matters with serious political implications.

Scott reviews several cybercrime cases, and provides several cyber security tips that he learned during his FBI career that will, hopefully, protect you from cybercriminals stealing your stuff.

Retired agent John Kundts reviews the 1981 counterfeit SEPTA TransPasses case where two men, using specialty paper, printed and sold fake monthly fare instruments, causing losses of $1 million each month for the Philadelphia transit agency.

Tom Baker reviews the FBI’s investigation of the March 1981, attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan by John Hinckley Jr, and discusses how lesson’s learned from the assassination of President Kennedy were immediately utilized in the initial management and coordination of multiple agencies under intense media scrutiny.

Retired agent Cecil Moses reviews the Greensboro Massacre, where, during a protest rally in 1979, a shootout with the Ku Klux Klan and American Nazis left five members of the Communist Workers Party dead and seven seriously injured. Two klansmen were also injured. Cecil Moses managed the FBI investigation, and testified during the subsequent state, federal, and civil trials. To put this case in context remember, before there was a Charlottesville there was the Greensboro Massacre.

In this episode of FBI Retired Case File Review, Ken reviews the controversial topics of satanic ritual child abuse, recovered repressed memory, and the suggestibility of children. His work in this area and the ramifications of confirmation bias has divided and polarized many child advocates, the media, and the American public.

Retired agent Scott Curtis reviews a public corruption investigation that resulted in the conviction of Allentown, Pennsylvania Mayor Ed Pawlowski, as well as a dozen other public officials and business executives for campaign contribution bribery, extortion, and other corruption-related offenses.

In this two-for-one episode of FBI Retired Case File Review, retired agents Jim Siano and Tom Baker review the kidnapping investigation of Barbara Jean Mackle who was buried alive in a wooden coffin-like box for 82 hours during the harrowing incident. Jim Siano also reviews an airplane hijacking case where he narrowly escaped being shot in the stomach when the hijacker’s gun jammed.

Special Agents Jean and Tom O’Connor, in their capacity as FBIAA officials, review the work performed, and the devastating health-related complications experienced by FBI agents responding to terrorists attack sites at the World Trade Center in New York, The Pentagon in Washington D.C., Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and evidence collection sites on and immediately after 9/11.

Jim Sweeney and Rich Macko review the March 16, 1994, Broad Street shootout where Rich Macko and another agent were shot and seriously injured, and a drug gang member killed after a violent confrontation that occurred while the agents were attempting a car stop. FBI Director Louie Freeh visited the agents directly after the shootout and, for their actions, later awarded them the FBI’s highest award for bravery the “Medal of Valor.”

Warren Flagg reviews a pet cemetery scam where up to 250,000 carcasses of deceased dogs and cats, that were supposed to be cremated or buried, were discovered in huge pits in the woods behind a pet memorial park. The subjects, a father and son, were convicted of mail fraud based on the premiums they collected to individually bury or cremate pets when they instead dumped them into mass cremations and burials.

Wayne Manis reviews his investigation of “The Order,” a white supremacist terrorist group, also known as the Silent Brotherhood, that operated in the Pacific Northwest in the early to mid-1980s. He tracked their assassinations, armored car robberies, bombings and counterfeiting activities. The hunt came to an end when Wayne and other SWAT Agents surrounded the terrorist on a remote island and killed the leader in a fiery machine gun battle.