184: Eileen Roemer – FBI Cadaver Dogs, 9/11 Search and Recovery
FBI Case File Review
Jerri Williams
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Retired agent Eileen Roemer reviews her methods for training her FBI cadaver dogs, Riley and Bailey, both Golden Retrievers. She discusses the search and recovery work she and her dogs were assigned, locating human remains at crime sites, including at the Pentagon, where she responded with her dogs for twelve days immediately following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
After her retirement, Eileen has served a term as the President of the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 184 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm a retired agent on a mission to show the public who the FBI is and what the FBI does |
| 0:21.1 | through my books, my blog, and my podcast case reviews with former colleagues. |
| 0:26.4 | Today we get to speak to retired agent Eileen Romer, who served in the FBI for 20 years. |
| 0:35.0 | During her bureau career, she investigated white-collar crime, violent crime, organized crime, and |
| 0:42.1 | counterterrorism. In this episode, Eileen Roma reviews her time |
| 0:48.0 | training her unofficial FBI cadaver dogs, Riley and Bailey, both Golden Retrievers. |
| 0:55.6 | She talks about the search and recovery work she and her dogs were assigned, locating human |
| 1:02.0 | remains at crime sites, including the Pentagon, where she responded with |
| 1:06.9 | them for 12 days immediately following the 9-11 terrorist attacks. |
| 1:12.8 | At the time she began working with her cadaver dogs, |
| 1:16.1 | Eilie Romer was a supervisory special agent |
| 1:19.8 | and psychological profiler in theiling Unit, now known as the B.A.U. Behavioral Analysis Unit at Quantico, Virginia. |
| 1:29.5 | Eileen is a trained police instructor, crisis manager, and crisis hostage negotiator. |
| 1:37.0 | Later in her FBI career, she was assigned to Gulfport Mississippi, where she supervised 25 special agents and task force officers |
| 1:46.8 | and to the Department of Homeland Security as a senior FBI liaison. |
| 1:53.0 | Following retirement, she worked as a consultant for the National Counterterrorism |
| 1:57.7 | Center and U.S. Central Command. |
| 2:00.5 | On October 19th, 2019, |
| 2:03.0 | Eileen Romer will be installed as the President of the Society of former Special Agents of the FBI. |
| 2:11.0 | Congratulations, Eileen. But before we get to the interview, I want to talk to you |
| 2:16.8 | about Nanowrimo. And for those of you who don't know what that is, it is National Novel Writing Month. So during the month of |
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