066: Jim Huggins - Mark Putnam, FBI Informant Murderer
FBI Case File Review
Jerri Williams
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2017
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
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 advisor for Above Suspicion, the feature film based on the non-fiction book of the same name that depicts the tragic saga of Mark Putnam and Susan Smith.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 66 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams. |
| 0:10.8 | I'm a retired agent writing crime fiction inspired by true crime |
| 0:14.8 | FBI cases. In this episode we get to speak to retired agent Jim |
| 0:21.1 | Huggins who served in the FBI for 28 years. During his Bureau |
| 0:26.9 | career, Huggins was assigned to the Minneapolis, Denver, and Louisville |
| 0:31.9 | divisions in addition to special assignments on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation 1973 and again in 1975 and during the Rezmer investigation of the murders of two |
| 0:48.7 | FBI agents Jack Kohler and Ron Williams. |
| 0:54.0 | In this episode of FBI Retired Case File Review, |
| 0:58.4 | Jim Huggins is interviewed |
| 1:00.0 | about his investigation of FBI agent Mark Putnam. |
| 1:05.0 | A new agent assigned to a two-man resident agency in Pikesville, Kentucky, |
| 1:12.0 | high in the Appalachia cold country. |
| 1:15.4 | Based primarily on Huggins' ability to elicit a confession, |
| 1:20.8 | Putnam pled guilty and was convicted of strangling in a fit of rage his pregnant informant |
| 1:28.7 | Susan Daniels Smith. |
| 1:32.0 | There's little doubt that the Mark Putnam manslaughter investigation was one of Jim |
| 1:37.2 | Huggins' most famous cases. |
| 1:40.0 | However, while he was in Louisville, he also conducted our supervised many of Kentucky's biggest corruption investigations. |
| 1:51.0 | He served as the supervisor of the Lexington Resident Agency from 1986 until his retirement. |
| 1:59.0 | After retiring from the FBI, Jim Huggins was appointed by the Kentucky Attorney General |
| 2:05.4 | as Director of Investigations for the Public Corruption Unit, where he worked for seven years. |
| 2:12.4 | Recently, Huggins was hired as a where he worked for seven years. |
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