Hi everyone and welcome to episode 29 of FBI retired case foul review with

Jerry Williams. I'm a retired agent writing crime fiction inspired by actual FBI cases.

In this episode we get to speak to retired special agent B. Defazio.

Now B was with the FBI for 23 years.

7 as a member of the Special Surveillance Group, SSG, following spies in New York,

and 16 as a special agent with the FBI in the Philadelphia Division. During the last half of her

agent career, B was assigned to ferret out child predators trolling in online

chat rooms. She started in innocent images national initiative group one

undercover program setting up the internet and phone lines and purchasing the

computers she and her partner needed to use to possess children and teens.

In this online undercover role, she engaged in conversations with child predators in an attempt

to identify and gather the evidence to arrest them for soliciting

in-person contact for sex and for exchanging child pornography are more appropriately

labeled child sexual exploitation images.

B says that this emotionally difficult work was by far the most rewarding thing

she did for the FBI.

Be also talks about her collateral duties as a member of the evidence response team,

ERT, and how she and her teammates immediately after the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center

were assigned to the fresh killed landfill where they shifted through debris looking

for evidence, personal effects belonging to the victims and human body parts.

Before we get to the interview, I just have two really quick things I want to say.

First of all, I have to give a shout out to Rosaline. Rosaline sent me an email letting

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