Welcome to episode 188 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams. I'm a retired agent on a mission to show the public who

the FBI is and what the FBI does through my books, my blog, and my podcast case reviews with former colleagues.

Today we get to speak to retired agent Ron Hosko, who served in the FBI for 30 years.

As a street agent, he served in the Jackson Division,

in Mississippi, and in the Chicago Division,

working undercover and in assignments focused on complex

financial crimes and violent crimes, as well as serving on multiple joint task forces and SWAT teams targeting dangerous subjects.

In this episode, Ron Hosko reviews the abduction and hostage rescue case known as the boy in the bunker where Jimmy Lee Dykes

boarded a school bus killed the bus driver and took a five-year-old boy hostage.

At the time of the incident, Ron was the assistant director of the FBI's criminal

investigative division, responsible for the oversight of the FBI's largest program.

Ron provides a detailed overview of all of the units, programs, and departments involved in the coordination of the successful response to this

major crisis event.

Before his appointment as assistant director,

Ron led the FBI's crisis management unit in Quantico,

served as an assistant special agent in charge in Philadelphia where he was awarded the FBI's shield a bravery

for his actions during a violent ransom kidnapping.

Later in his career, he was promoted to senior executive service SES and served as an

inspector conducting multiple serious and fatal shooting investigations.

Ron also served as special agent in charge of the Washington Field Offices Criminal Division,

overseeing all criminal and cyber cases in the criminal

and cyber cases in the FBI's second largest field office.

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