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FBI Retired Case File Review

092: Stewart Fillmore – Tenaha, Texas Corruption Cover-Up

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

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

4.62.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2017

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Retired agent Stewart Fillmore reviews a case initiated based on allegations that minority motorists were being illegally stopped on an isolated stretch of highway in rural East Texas. The case eventually was redirected to determine how and by whom drugs and firearms confiscated from motorists had gone missing from the local police evidence room. Stewart Fillmore wrote a book about the case, Tenaha: Corruption and Cover-Up In Small Town Texas. The true crime story provides an inside look at how an actual FBI public corruption investigation is worked.

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0:00.0

Welcome to episode 92 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams.

0:10.0

I'm a retired agent writing crime fiction inspired by true crime FBI cases.

0:16.1

Today we get to speak to retired agent Stuart Fillmore who served with the FBI for 29 years.

0:23.4

He began his Bureau career as a support employee

0:26.8

and after three years received an appointment to the special agent position.

0:31.1

He was assigned to the Dallas, Little Rock, Chicago, and Tyler, Texas offices.

0:37.0

A career street agent, Stuart Fillmore worked most of the criminal investigations under the jurisdiction of the FBI.

0:46.0

However, his primary specialty was investigating public corruption.

0:51.0

In this episode, Stuart Fillmore reviews a case

0:55.3

initiated based on allegations that minority motorists were being

1:00.7

illegally stopped on an isolated stretch of highway in rural East Texas.

1:06.0

The case eventually was redirected to determine how and by whom drugs and firearms confiscated from motorists had gone missing

1:17.2

from the local police evidence room. Stuart Fillmore wrote a book about the

1:21.9

case.

1:22.8

Tenahaw. Corruption and cover-up in small town Texas.

1:28.6

The true crime story provides an inside look at how an actual FBI public corruption investigation is worked.

1:37.0

Since retiring from the FBI, Fillmore currently operates his own private investigation company.

1:44.0

I think you're really going to enjoy this episode.

1:48.0

There are so many twists and turns that you are going to say to yourself this has got to be fiction,

1:55.0

especially when it comes to the surprised and unexpected ending.

2:00.0

Before we get to the case, I just have a few things. First of all, for those of you who

2:06.1

listen to the podcast on iTunes are a podcast app that feeds directly to let you know that I've been working on the audio files to make them compliant with a new

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