068: Phillip Sena – Cop Killer, Top 10 Fugitive Ted Otsuki
FBI Case File Review
Jerri Williams
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2017
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Retired agent Phil Sena reviews the fugitive investigation of Top Ten Fugitive Ted Otsuki. In October 1987, Otsuki killed Boston police officer Roy Sergei and wounded officer Jorge Torres when they responded to a domestic disturbance call. A national manhunt to locate and capture Otsuki ensued. After he developed a crucial cooperating witness, Phil Sena, working closely with Boston and San Francisco detectives, took up the fugitive hunt in San Francisco, Texas and Guadalajara, Mexico, where Otsuki was eventually captured by Mexican Federal Judicial Police and the FBI.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 68 of FBI Retired Case Far Review with Jerry Williams. |
| 0:11.2 | I'm a retired agent writing crime fiction inspired by true crime |
| 0:15.2 | FBI cases. In this episode we get to speak to retired agent Phil Senna who served 25 years in federal law enforcement, 7 as a deputy |
| 0:28.1 | U.S. Marshall, and 18 as a special agent with the FBI. |
| 0:33.0 | Phil is interviewed about the fugitive investigation of a cop killer. |
| 0:39.0 | Top 10 fugitive Ted Otzuki. In October 1987, |
| 0:45.3 | Otsuki killed Boston police officer Roy Sergi |
| 0:50.0 | and wounded officer George Torres when they responded to a domestic disturbance call. |
| 0:57.0 | A national manhunt to locate and capture |
| 1:01.0 | A Zuki ensued. |
| 1:03.0 | After Phil developed a crucial cooperating witness, |
| 1:07.0 | working closely with Boston and San Francisco detectives, |
| 1:11.0 | he took up the fugitive hunt in San Francisco detectives, he took up the fugitive hunt in San Francisco, Texas, and |
| 1:17.0 | Guadalajara Mexico. It was in Mexico that Ozuki was eventually captured by Mexican Federal Judicial Police and the FBI. |
| 1:28.9 | In addition to working fugitive cases during his Bureau career Phil Senna gained extensive experience in |
| 1:37.0 | the investigation of violent crime and terrorism and served as a supervisory special agent of the bank robbery kidnap |
| 1:45.8 | squad, the fugitive task force and the violent gang task force as well as |
| 1:51.8 | crisis management coordinator and SWAT team coordinator in the FBI |
| 1:57.7 | Tactical Operations Center for the San Francisco Division. He was also supervisor of and a diver on the FBI Western Region Underwater Search and Recovery Team. |
| 2:11.0 | Phil Senna is certified as a police instructor, |
| 2:15.7 | firearms instructor, defensive tactics instructor, |
| 2:20.0 | SWAT instructor, police fitness instructor, and tactical instructor. |
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