017: Ron Nolan - LEGAT Lagos and School Trip Fatality

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

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

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🗓️ 14 May 2016

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Retired Supervisory Special Agent Ron Nolan is interviewed about several cases investigated during the time he served as the Legal Attaché in Lagos, Nigeria - the investigation of the death of a teenage girl from New Jersey who dies while on a school trip in Ghana and the frequent kidnapping of American oil and utility workers in Nigeria. During his four years in the LEGAT Lagos position, Ron represented the FBI and the Department of Justice on matters involving eight African countries. He also served on Director Mueller’s LEGAT Advisory Committee, representing all 56 countries on the continent of Africa.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone and welcome to episode 17 of FBI retired case file review with
0:08.9	Jerry Williams. I'm a retired agent writing crime fiction inspired by actual FBI cases.
0:16.2	In this episode I interview retired supervisory special agent Ron Nolan. Ron served in the FBI for 21 years. He spent the early part of
0:26.9	his career in the Philadelphia division. What a surprise. As a member of the
0:31.4	SWAT team working violent crime, he was also the criminal informant coordinator.
0:37.0	Later, he was reassigned to the Newark Division, where he supervised a violent crimes and fusitive task force and also supervised the evidence response team.
0:47.0	The cases he talks about in this episode, however, all occurred while he served as the legal attache in Lagos Nigeria.
0:57.4	The first case is about the investigation of the death of a teenage girl from New Jersey who dies while on a school trip in Ghana.
1:06.0	The second case is actually about the frequent kidnapping of American oil and utility workers in Nigeria.
1:16.2	Now Ron served four years as Leagat Lagos.
1:21.6	He represented the FBI and the Department of Justice on matters involving eight African
1:26.4	countries and he also served on the director's LeGat Advisory Committee representing all 56 countries in the continent of Africa.
1:37.0	Before we get to that interview, I do want to talk about crime fiction, my crime fiction.
1:45.0	Earlier this week a friend of mine asked me if I made money from hosting and producing FBI Retired Case File Review.
1:55.0	And I told her know that I will always turn down the many offers I have to place advertisement on the show.
2:05.0	She then indicated that this was probably the most time consuming and expensive hobby that I would ever have.
2:14.6	And I had to make sure she understood that this is not a hobby.
2:19.2	I consider hosting and producing this podcast a business venture because in September
2:26.7	my debut novel Pay-to-play will be published by Curtis Brown Unlimited.
2:34.0	I'm very excited about this opportunity
2:37.0	and have been very busy the last few weeks
2:41.0	getting ready for the book launch. The cover is fantastic and I'm
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