Hi everyone and welcome to episode 5 of FBI retired Case File Review with

Jerry Williams. In this episode I interview retired supervisory special agent Sherman Hopkins who served 22 years with the FBI.

Sherman tells me about a horrific kidnapping case he worked while assigned to the Dallas division.

The case involved three little girls who went missing from their neighborhoods over a three-year period.

The only thing their abductions had in common was a mysterious white van seen in the vicinity

of their neighborhoods during these three separate events.

He also shares how this case affected him as a young father

and his admiration for the families, particularly one of the mothers who fought so hard to make

sure they would eventually learn what happened to their little girls.

Sherman and I got so involved in our conversation that I forgot to mention that when he retired

from the FBI, he retired as a supervisory special agent.

He supervised both the financial institution fraud squad and he also at another period of time supervised an administrative

squad. Let's get on with the show. So I am very excited to introduce my guest today.

Sherman Hopkins senior retired special agent.

Welcome to the show, Sherman.

Thank you.

So, you know, as you know, we've established a format here.

What I like to do is talk first about what you did before you became an FBI agent, how you learned about the FBI, and then a little bit about, you know, when you join the FBI and some of the offices that you were assigned to. So why don't we start? What were you doing

before you joined the FBI? I was a special agent with the North Carolina

Bureau of the State Bureau of Investigation in actually in Raleigh, North Carolina. Yes. All right, and

as was that patrol? Were you out on the highway or were you working cases and investigations?

Well, actually, the Bureau of Investigation does not have any parole, I mean patrol officers.

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