221: Jean O’Connor – Evidence Response Teams, ERT

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

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

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🗓️ 21 January 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Retired agent Jean O’Connor reviews the FBI's Evidence Response Team (ERT) program, the 12 steps of processing a crime scene and a bank burglary case solved with DNA evidence collected by the Washington Field Office (WFO) ERT. She was named Senior Team Leader in 2006.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 221 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams.
0:13.4	I'm a retired agent on a mission.
0:15.8	On a mission to show you who the FBI is
0:19.3	and what the FBI does through my books, my blog,
0:22.4	and my podcast case reviews with former colleagues.
0:26.0	Today, once again, we get to speak to Retired Agent Jean O'Connor, who served in the FBI for 21 years.
0:35.0	Assigned to the Washington Field Office, W.F.O.
0:39.0	She worked undercover specializing in drug diversion cases, investigated complex drug trafficking cases,
0:46.7	and was on the extraterritorial terrorism squad with deployments around the world.
0:52.8	Gene was also a member of the WFO Evidence Response Team, E.R.T.
0:59.7	and was named the Senior Team Leader, a position she held for 13 years.
1:06.2	In this episode, Gene O'Connor reviews the E.R.T.
1:10.9	The 12 Steps of Processing a crime scene, and a bank burglary case solved with DNA
1:18.1	evidence collected by the WFO ERT.
1:22.1	Following the 9-11 attacks Gene was a first responder at the US Pentagon in charge of evidence and victim remains a recovery.
1:32.4	She led forensic teams to process attacks
1:35.6	against the U.S. Embassy in Yemen in Turkey and against U.S. Embassy personnel in Beirut, Lebanon.
1:45.0	State side, Gene O'Connor has led teams to process numerous lone offender shooting scenes,
1:51.9	including the Holocaust Museum shooting the
1:55.0	Washington Navy Yard attack and she led a team to assist in the
1:59.6	investigations of Boston Marathon Bomb Attacks.
2:03.8	During her FBI career, she also served as a trustee for the FBI
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