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FBI Retired Case File Review

194: Tim Gannon and Bob Burda – Bank Robbery, Fort Bragg Murder-for-Hire

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

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

4.62.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2020

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Retired agents Bob Burda and Tim Gannon review a Fayetteville, North Carolina bank robbery case that, based on information received from a confidential source, morphed into a murder-for-hire investigation. After the arrest and subsequent confession of one of the bank robbers, the murder victim’s body was recovered from a shallow grave on the wooded reserves of Fort Bragg, an Army base near Fayetteville. Investigators from the Fayetteville Police Department, Army Criminal Investigative Division (CID) and other local law enforcement partners assisted.

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0:00.0

Welcome to episode 194 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

0:16.3

FBI is and what the FBI does through my books, my blog, and my podcast case

0:22.3

reviews with former colleagues. Today we get to speak to

0:27.0

Timothy Gannon and Robert Burder. In this episode Tim and Bob review a Fayetteville North Carolina bank robbery case that, based on information from a confidential source, morphed into a murder for higher investigation.

0:45.0

After the confession of one of the bank robbers,

0:49.0

the murder victim's body was recovered from a shallow grave on the wooded reserves of Fort Bragg, an army military

0:58.1

base near Fayetteville.

1:00.6

Tim Gannon and Bob Burda were assisted in this investigation by investigators from the

1:07.0

Fayetteville Police Department, Army Criminal Investigative Division, CID, and other local law enforcement partners.

1:15.4

The subjects pled guilty and received life sentences.

1:19.9

You'll have the opportunity to read a longer bio in the show notes of this episode for Tim and Bob, but let me tell you a little bit about them now.

1:29.0

Tim Gannon served in the FBI for nearly 28 years. His first two assignments were to

1:36.0

Savannah and the State Borough Resident Agency out of the Atlanta Field Office.

1:41.5

He was permanently transferred to the Theatville resident agency

1:46.2

out of Charlotte, North Carolina after working there as a undercover agent on a long-term undercover case which targeted the theft of government

1:56.8

property such as weapons and explosives.

2:00.3

Tim was Bob Burders training agent.

2:03.0

Bob served in the FBI for 20 years.

2:06.0

His first Bureau assignment was to the Fayetteville RA,

2:11.0

where he worked a wide variety of criminal investigations.

2:15.6

He was promoted to supervisory positions at FBI headquarters.

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