150: Bill Plunkett – 1929, Suicide or Murder? The G-Men and the Nurse

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

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

4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Retired agent William “Bill” Plunkett reviews the 1929 Bureau of Investigation case featuring the mysterious death of Virginia McPherson; attractive young nurse found semi-nude in her apartment with a pajama cord around her neck. The case was initially investigated by the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police, but after a public outcry when Virginia’s death was ruled a suicide, Director Hoover’s G-Men were asked to step in and re-do the investigation. The case is the subject of his true crime book, The G-Men and the Nurse.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 150 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams.
0:12.0	I'm a retired agent on a mission to show the public who the
0:15.4	FBI is and what the FBI does through my books, my blog, and the personal case
0:21.4	reviews of my former colleagues who served in the FBI.
0:25.0	Today we get to speak to Bill Plunkett who served in the FBI for 27 years.
0:32.0	During his FBI career he worked joint counterintelligence
0:36.2	operations with the CIA and investigated national security and cybercrime
0:42.1	matters.
0:43.0	In this episode, Bill reviews the 1929 Bureau of Investigations case
0:49.0	featuring the mysterious death of Virginia McPherson, an attractive the wrapped around her neck. The case was initially investigated by the
1:04.3	Washington DC Metropolitan Police but after a public outcry when Virginia's
1:09.8	death was ruled a suicide FBI Director Hoover's gmen were asked to step in and redo the investigation.
1:18.0	During his FBI career, Bill Plunkett was assigned to the Albany Division, the Cincinnati FBI member of the Cincinnati FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force formed immediately after 9-11.
1:37.0	Bill Plunkett is the author of two true crime books that take place in the early days of the FBI, which was known initially
1:46.0	as the Bureau of Investigation. In the G-Man and the Nurse, his second book, Bill
1:52.0	recounts the story of the Virginia McPherson case.
1:55.0	Bill's book is part of my FBI reading resource, books about the FBI written by
2:01.7	FBI agents who have appeared on this podcast.
2:05.5	To get your copy of this colorful book list, all you need to do is join my reader team.
2:11.2	You can do so at my website Jerry Williams.com and that's J-E-R-R-I-W Williams
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2:22.2	description of this episode. One quick thing
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