003: Jim Fitzgerald – Forensic Linguistics and the Unabomber

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

True Crime, Interviews, Fiction, History, Fbi, Government, Truecrime

4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2016

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Retired agent Jim Fitzgerald, a former FBI profiler, and one of the most respected forensic analysts and linguistics experts in the country, reviews his role in solving the Unabomber case and several other high-profile investigations, as well as his work as a technical consultant on the TV shows Criminal Minds and Sleepy Hollow and regular appearances on CNN for expert commentary on current events. We also chat about his memoir – A Journey to the Center of the Mind: Book 1.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone I want to welcome you to episode 3 of FBI retired case file review with Jerry Williams.
0:11.0	In this episode I get the opportunity to talk to Jim Fitzgerald, a former FBI profiler.
0:20.0	Jim is one of the most respected forensic analyst and linguistics experts in the country.
0:28.0	In addition to his many expert court appearances, Jim has called upon for his expertise by the entertainment and news
0:36.0	industry. Jim and I talk about his role in solving the Unabomber case and several other major high-profile investigations.
0:45.1	We also talk about his work as a technical consultant on TV shows like Criminal Minds and Sleepy
0:52.3	Hollow and his regular appearances on CNN.
0:56.8	So it's a great interview and I'm very excited about it.
1:00.0	Here's a show.
1:01.0	Hi everyone and I want to welcome my guest today.
1:04.8	I'm very excited.
1:07.3	I guess in the immediate business, this is what you would call a get. You know, I have a real life FBI profiler,
1:17.9	my good friend, Jim Fitzgerald.
1:20.8	Hey Jim.
1:22.0	Hey Jerry, good to hear from you and glad to be on your
1:25.1	podcast. Yes, I am. It's real it's great timing because last week I spoke to Ray Carr who you know, who talked to us about being a
1:39.6	profiler in the
1:43.3	field something that most people weren't even aware existed. They think all profilers
1:46.5	are down at Quantico, Virginia at the FBI Academy, but you do train people in the field also.
1:54.0	Yes, we do.
1:55.0	And every one of the FBI 56 field divisions has agents who we specifically train to sort of be the liaisons between us and the local law
2:08.6	enforcement agencies and maybe even their own FBI office and they'll collect information, gather information, talk to, you know,
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