240: Richard Marx – Fresh Kills 9/11 Recovery Operation, Mass Casualties

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

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🗓️ 8 September 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Supervisory Special Agent Richard Marx reviews the FBI Recovery Team he lead at the Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island, where a multi-agency team carefully sifted through tons of World Trade Center debris to recover criminal evidence and the remains and belongings of the victims of September 11. The work at Fresh Kills, miles from Ground Zero and closed to the general public, is an important part of the 9/11 story most people don't know about. From September 12, 2001 to August 9, 2002, Richard was in charge of the site, along with New York Police Department Inspector James Luongo and New York Bureau of Waste Disposal Deputy Director Dennis Diggins. During the 11-month operation, the forensic recovery effort sifted the 1.8 million tons of World Trade Center debris and recovered over 4,500 human remains and over 75,000 personal effects and processed over 1,300 vehicles.

SSA Richard Marx is currently assigned to the Evidence Response Team Unit at the FBI Laboratory, Quantico, VA. He has been involved in support efforts following many of the mass casualty events and disasters both domestic and abroad that have occurred during his nearly 25 years in the FBI.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 240 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams.
0:12.6	I'm a retired agent on a mission to show you who the FBI is and what the FBI does through
0:19.0	my books, my blog and my podcast case reviews with former colleagues.
0:23.5	Today, we get to speak to supervisory special agent Richard Marx, who joined the FBI in 1997.
0:32.2	His initial assignment was to the Philadelphia Division, where he worked on a drug squad
0:36.6	and later the bank robbery and fugitive squad.
0:39.8	In this episode, supervisory special agent Richard Marx, Richard, reviews the FBI recovery
0:47.4	team he led at the Fresh Kills Landfield on Staten Island, where a multi-agency team carefully
0:54.5	sifted through tons of World Trade Center debris to recover criminal evidence and the
1:00.8	remains and belongings of the victims of September 11, 2001.
1:07.2	The work at Fresh Kills, Miles from Ground Zero, enclosed to the general public is an important
1:14.2	part of the 9-11 story that most people know nothing about.
1:19.5	From September 12, 2001 to August 9, 2002, Richard was in charge of the site along with New
1:27.8	York Police Department Inspector James Luongo and New York Bureau of Ways to Sposal Deputy
1:34.5	Director Dennis Diggins.
1:37.2	In the 11-month operation, the forensic recovery effort examined 1.8 million tons of World
1:45.3	Trade Center debris and recovered over 45 hundred human remains and over 75,000 personal
1:52.7	effects and processed over 1,300 vehicles.
1:57.7	In 2006, Richard was promoted to supervisory special agent in the Evidence Response Team
2:04.4	Unit at the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, where he is currently assigned.
2:10.6	Richard has been involved in the support efforts following most mass-casualty events and natural
2:17.8	disasters, both domestic and abroad that have occurred during the nearly 25 years he
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