Welcome to episode 220 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams.

I'm a retired agent on a mission, a mission to show you 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 Mark Sewall, who served in the FBI for 20 years. He spent his career in the Atlanta

Division initially assigned to an organized crime squad for 10 years before

transferring to the Gainesville resident agency where he worked on the

Safe Street Task Force for another 10 years. Mark was also a member of the SWAT team.

In this episode, Mark reviews several stolen

valor cases including the investigation of Shane Ladner, a police officer who was accused of lying about receiving a

purple heart and who benefited financially from the deception. In 2013, in the wake of the tragic school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut,

Mark became one of the FBI's first certified active shooter event instructors.

For five years he taught police response to an active shooter event in 10 states and several African countries.

Since his retirement, Mark has been working as a contract Intel instructor at the FBI Academy

in Quantico and operating I68.org a firm providing active shooter event consulting to churches and workplaces. I want to dedicate this episode to all of the women and men who have served

and are serving in the military. But before we get to the episode we got to take a moment to

celebrate this month January 2021 I am celebrating five years of podcasting.

Yep, five years ago.

In January of 2016, I posted my very first episode.

Thanks for listening.

As part of the celebration, will you tell a friend or two about the podcast?

You do that for me and I'll do something for you.

I'll post three episodes instead of two this month.

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