#16: Interview with James R. Fitzgerald on arresting the Unabomber
Real Crime Profile
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🗓️ 11 May 2016
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening at free on Wondry Plus. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello, welcome to Real Crime Profile. Today I'm really excited to have a amazing |
| 0:33.6 | guest and it's actually an anniversary that we're going to talk about. My best friend from |
| 0:41.2 | the FBI, my longtime colleague and buddy in law enforcement, James Fitzgerald, retired |
| 0:50.3 | super advisory special agent is my guest today on Real Crime Profile. How you doing, Jim? |
| 0:57.6 | Jim, it's great to be here. Thanks for having me in your studios for this. Well, glad |
| 1:03.5 | to have you and you just pointed out something that we're going to have to deal with in that |
| 1:07.5 | we're both named Jim. So I'm going to call you Fitz if you're going to call me Jim and |
| 1:11.9 | I think that'll work out pretty well. I've been noticed Fitz just about my whole life, |
| 1:15.5 | so this will work for today. Great. All right, well, can you please tell our listening audience |
| 1:22.7 | what the significance of today is? Well, first of all, today is April 3rd, 2016 and probably |
| 1:32.0 | just about everybody in the world, maybe happy once they realize what this anniversary date is, |
| 1:37.0 | except for one guy. And that is it's a 20 year anniversary of the arrest of Theodore J. Kaczynski, |
| 1:44.8 | better known as the Unibomber. And I was played in a pivotal role in that particular investigation. |
| 1:53.5 | And I was glad to say that I was part of that team that helped put him behind bars where he is |
| 1:58.7 | right now. So just so people who weren't around or weren't aware of it at the time, |
| 2:03.7 | will understand the significance of that. Ted Kaczynski was one of the longest running |
| 2:09.5 | serial murderers and serial bombers in US history. He was engaging in a campaign of destruction |
| 2:18.1 | that spanned over 17 years. And Jim Fitzgerald was actually the guy who ultimately was responsible |
| 2:28.0 | for getting law enforcement into that cabin so they could arrest him. |
| 2:33.4 | Yeah, I was a brand new profiler and I was a seasoned investigator, a police officer for 11 years, |
| 2:39.3 | and certainly an agent in New York for seven years after that. And the next thing you know, |
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