115: Scott Decker – Amerithrax, Recounting the Anthrax Attacks

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

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

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🗓️ 10 May 2018

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Retired agent Scott Decker reviews working on and later managing the “science squad” of the newly formed Amerithrax Task Force. The task force’s mission was to identify and apprehend the person responsible for the mailings of anthrax that killed five people and permanently injured nearly two dozen more. Decker coordinated the early genetics and DNA forensics of the investigation.

Decker is the author of Recounting the Anthrax Attacks: Terror, the Amerithrax Task Force, and the Evolution of Forensics in the FBI.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 115 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams. I'm a retired agent writing crime fiction inspired by true crime
0:17.0	cases. Today we get to speak to Scott Decker who served in the FBI for 22 years.
0:27.0	Early in his Bureau career, Scott Decker who has a doctorate in human genetics joined the Bureau's
0:35.1	fledging hazardous material response unit in Quantico.
0:41.0	On September 12, 2001, he led a team of FBI Hazmat specialists to Ground Zero in New York
0:50.0	City.
0:51.0	Three weeks later, the country came under attack again, this time from Anthrax.
0:59.0	In this episode, Scott Decker reviews working on and eventually managing the science
1:07.4	squad of the newly formed Ameritrathrax Task Force. The Task Force's mission was to identify an apprehend the person responsible
1:19.4	for the mailings of anthrax that killed five people and permanently injured nearly two dozen more.
1:28.8	Scott Decker coordinated the early genetics and DNA forensics of the investigation.
1:35.0	He then went on to supervise a squad of agents,
1:39.0	all with advanced science degrees,
1:42.0	as they coordinated the forensic aspects of the case.
1:47.8	Their work charted new ground and established the discipline of microbial forensics.
1:55.0	In 2009, he and his team received the FBI Director's Award for Outstanding Scientific Advancement.
2:05.5	Scott Decker is the author of recounting the anthrax attacks, Terror, the Ameritrathrax task force, and the evolution of forensics in the FBI.
2:17.0	In this non-fiction book, he was able to write with authority on the events that took place during the Anthrax
2:26.4	Investigation, many of which have never been publicized.
2:31.5	You can learn more about Scott Decker and his book on his website, R.
2:37.0	Scott Decker.com.
2:40.3	This is a fascinating episode.
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