FBI Case File Review

Retired agent William "Bill" Ouseley, along with Kansas City Detective Gary Jenkins, reviews the history of the Kansas City mob and the reign of mob boss Nick Civella, who ran the Kansas City mob for 30 years. Bill Ousley spent 21 of his 25 years in the FBI investigating organized crime and retired as supervisor of the Organized Crime Squad, in the Kansas City FBI Field Division. Bill Ouseley is t...

Retired agent Kevin Miles served as the FBI's first officially assigned full-time Special Agent bomb technician (SABT). He spent more than 17 years acquiring extensive experience in the field of improvised explosive devices and post-blast investigations. In this episode, he reviews the duties of a post blast bomb technician processing and investigating explosive crime scenes, the bombing of Khobar...

Retired agent Herman Groman reviews the case of FBI informant Richard Wershe Jr., also known as White Boy Rick, who, at the age of 17, was convicted of selling large quantities of cocaine and sentenced to life in prison without parole. Groman served as the director of security at a large Las Vegas casino/hotel for several years after retiring from the FBI. He is the author of   Pigeon Spring , a c...

Retired agent Michael "Brett" Hood reviews his investigation of David Mobley, Sr. and Maricopa Investments, a multi-million dollar hedge fund Ponzi Scheme. Brett, a federal-court certified expert in money laundering and financial crimes, has traveled the world for the FBI teaching public and private sector employees how to develop anti-fraud and corruption programs. Bret is the author of Eat More...

Retired agent and h ostage negotiator Gary Noesner reviews the importance of crisis negotiations and stalling for time and how these concepts were used during the Montana Freeman incident. When he retired from the FBI, Gary was the Chief of the FBI's Crisis Negotiation Unit, Critical Incident Response Group, the first person to hold that position. He is the author of   Stalling for Time: My Life a...

Retired agent Tym Burkey reviews how his informant Dave Hall infiltrated the violent neo-Nazi organization. The intelligence gathered by Hall lead to the disruption and dismantling of the Aryan Nations' leadership. After retiring from the FBI, Tym Burkey co-wrote with Dave Hall a narrative account of their Aryan Nations case. Their book, Into the Devil's Den: How an FBI Informant Got Inside the Ar...

Retired agent Marc Ruskin reviews his false flag espionage undercover role posing as a French operative seeking to purchase uranium enrichment equipment that had been stolen from a U.S. Department of Energy facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. His undercover work in this case resulted in a former employee at the Oak Ridge Complex being sentenced to six years in prison. He is the author of The Pretend...

Retired agent Robert "Bob" Bukowski reviews the multi-state and multi-agency investigation of the kidnapping and murder of millionaire Nelson Gross. Three teenagers were eventually charged and convicted of kidnapping and murdering the victim for a $20,000 ransom. Check out episode show notes, photos, and related articles.   https://jerriwilliams.com/bob-bukowski-kidnapping-and-murder-millionaire-n...

Retired agent Joe Wolfinger is interviewed about his supervision of the counterintelligence squad in Norfolk, VA and the investigation of John Walker, a retired U.S. Navy chief warrant officer and communications specialist who sold secrets about American military codes to the Soviets for nearly 20 years. Walker also recruited his friend, brother and son and together they caused extensive damage to...

Retired agent Bob Hamer reviews his undercover role in Operation Smoking Dragon, an investigation that dismantled an international smuggling ring that brought into the country illegal drugs, cigarettes, and counterfeit $100 bills, known as North Korean "Supernotes." Bob Hamer received numerous awards throughout his career, including the coveted FBI Director's Award for Distinguished Service and fi...

Retired agent Dan Reilly reviews the case of Wayne "Silk" Perry, a hitman and enforcer for drug gangs operating in the early 1990s in the Washington, D.C. area. Perry claimed to have been involved in as many as 100 murders, many targeting witnesses who dared to cooperate with law enforcement. Dan Reilly helped start the FBI's Safe Streets Task Force Program. In addition to investigating violent dr...

Retired agent Dr. Jerry Clark, Ph. D. reviews the criminal case and trial of Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, the mastermind behind the Collarbomb pizza delivery case and the activity of other female serial killers. He and his co-author Ed Palattella authored the true crime book, Mania and Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong: Inside the Mind of a Female Serial Killer. Jerry Clark was previously reviewed one of the...

Retired agent and former FBI profiler Dr. Mary Ellen O'Toole, Ph. D., who is recognized as the FBI's leading expert in psychopathy, reviews the case of the Green River Killer Gary Ridgway, who was convicted of killing 49 women. Mary Ellen worked in the Bureau's prestigious Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) where she consulted on many of the FBI's highest profile and most complex cases, including homi...

Retired agent Dr. Raymond Batvinis, Ph. D. reviews the history of the FBI's counterintelligence program and past and current investigations of Russian interference in U. S. policies. During his Bureau career, Ray Batvinis' assignments included stints at the Washington Field Office and the Intelligence Division's Training Unit at FBI headquarters. Later he served in the Baltimore Division as a Supe...

This is part 2 of a two-part episode. Retired agent Juan Jackson reviews his long-term undercover role as "J. J." a drug kingpin in the FBI Group I undercover case - Operation Shattered Shield. J. J. hired corrupt members of the New Orleans Police Department to protect his large-scale cocaine operation. The dirty police officers, who maintained around-the-clock guard duty at the warehouse where th...

Part one of a two-part episode. Retired agent Juan Jackson reviews his long-term undercover role as "J. J." a drug kingpin in the FBI Group I undercover case - Operation Shattered Shield. Juan, as his alter ego J. J., hired corrupt members of the New Orleans Police Department to protect his large-scale cocaine operation. The dirty police officers maintained around-the-clock guard duty at the wareh...

Retired agent Greg Stejskal reviews the investigation of a massive marijuana criminal enterprise. Initially, a lead from the Indianapolis Division seeking assistance with a case involving a mother, Linda Leary, and her two sons, Paul and Richard Heilbrunn, who were charged with operating a marijuana smuggling and distribution enterprise, Greg Stejskal was assigned to identified and locate a co-con...

Retired agent Mike Leyden reviews an extortion case that resulted in the conviction of Nicodemo Scarfo Sr., Philadelphia City Councilman Leland Beloff, and Beloff's administrative assistant, Robert Rego, for attempting to extort $1 million from Willard Rouse, a Philadelphia developer. During the investigation, two "made men," Nicholas Caramandi and Thomas DelGiorno, became government witnesses and...

Retired agent Gina Davis, the acting supervisor of a Safe Streets Task Force operating out of Calverton, Maryland office and Maryland State Trooper and homicide detective Ted Jones, a 10-year task force member, review how the team solved a cold case murder of the execution-style shooting of three young women. The women's bodies were left in a secluded area off a rural route in Laurel, Maryland. Be...

Retired agent Phil Sena reviews the fugitive investigation of Top Ten Fugitive Ted Otsuki. In October 1987, Otsuki killed Boston police officer Roy Sergei and wounded officer Jorge Torres when they responded to a domestic disturbance call. A national manhunt to locate and capture Otsuki ensued. After he developed a crucial cooperating witness, Phil Sena, working closely with Boston and San Francis...

Retired agent John Chesson reviews  a hate crime/civil rights matter from his early days in the FBI. The case involved  the investigation of six South Philadelphia men suspected of violating the civil rights of an African American woman by vandalizing the home she had just rented on their block. The case was assigned to John and his co-case agent, Christina Kibbey. Mike Kates (also spelled Cates),...

Retired agent Jim Huggins reviews his investigation of FBI agent Mark Putnam, a new agent assigned to a two-man resident agency in Pikeville, Kentucky, high in Appalachian coal country. Based primarily on Huggins' ability to elicit a confession, Putnam pled guilty and was convicted of strangling is his pregnant informant, Susan Daniels Smith, in a fit of rage. Huggins was hired as a technical advi...

Retired agent Bob Hamer reviews an undercover operation where he infiltrated the security-obsessed North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA). Disguised as an aging pedophile. Bob was able to crack the group's extensive international network and to identify and gather evidence on sex tourists traveling overseas to sexually exploit children. His non-fiction book, THE LAST UNDERCOVER, details...

Retired agent James Gagliano reviews his role as the Supervisory Senior Resident Agent (SSRA) of the New York Division's Hudson Valley Resident Agency and forming the Hudson Valley Safe Streets Task Force. He also talks about the importance of community policing and how he used his role as basketball coach to encourage, motivate and mentor "at risk" kids. His multi-agency unit received the "Top Ga...

Retired agent Angelo Lano reviews his role as the case agent of the FBI Watergate investigation, starting from the morning of June 17, 1972, when he received a phone call from his Bureau supervisor instructing him to report to the Watergate Complex to investigate a break-in at the Democratic National Committee Headquarters. His initial assignment was to identify the five men caught in the act and...