262: Jerome Lorrain and Joe Nicholson – Miss-A-Bama Murder

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

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

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🗓️ 8 June 2022

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Retired agent Jerome Lorrain and former Safe Street Taskforce (SSTF) officer Joseph W. Nicholson review one of their kidnapping and murder investigations. In 2001, David Cannon abducted and bludgeoned to death Thomas Earl Beasley, III. Cannon and Beasley met at the Miss-A-Bama Saloon. Cannon became enraged after Beasley allegedly made a sexual pass at him. Beasley's body was later found floating in a pond in rural Alabama. The SSTF worked the case and made a crucial consensually recorded conversation between a confidential informant and Cannon. The Jackson Division Evidence Response Team (ERT) and the FBI Lab conducted forensic examinations that were also significant to the successful prosecution and resolution of this case. Jerome Lorraine served in the FBI for 30 years. Joseph Nicholson has worked in law enforcement for the past 28 years.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 262 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams.
0:13.2	I'm a retired agent on a mission to show you who the FBI is and what the FBI does through
0:20.0	my books, my blog and my podcast case reviews with former colleagues.
0:24.8	Today we get to speak to Jerome Lorraine, retired agent and former team leader of the Jackson
0:31.7	Division's Pascagula Resident Agency's Safe Streets Task Force and former Task Force
0:39.0	Officer Joseph Nicholson.
0:41.8	They review one of their kidnapping and murder investigations.
0:46.2	In 2001, David Cannon abducted and bludgeoned to death, Thomas Early Beasley III, shortly before
0:54.6	the murder, Cannon and Beasley had met at the Miss Obama saloon.
0:59.2	Cannon became enraged after Beasley allegedly made a sexual pass at him.
1:04.6	Beasley's body was later found floating in a pond in rural Alabama.
1:09.1	The Safe Streets Task Force worked the case and made a consensually recorded conversation
1:14.7	between a confidential source and Cannon, wherein Cannon admitted to the murder.
1:20.5	The Jackson Division's evidence response team, ERT and the FBI lab conducted forensic
1:26.8	examinations that were significant to the successful prosecution and resolution of this case.
1:33.5	Jerome Lorraine served in the FBI for 30 years.
1:37.0	He was primarily assigned to the Jackson Division's Pascagula Mississippi Resident Agency, where
1:42.8	in addition to leading the Safe Streets Task Force, he also led a high intensity drug trafficking
1:49.3	area, Highta Unit, investigating drug trafficking organizations, street games, and violent crime.
1:57.2	He was also the team leader for the FBI's hostage negotiators and Mississippi.
2:02.4	He is currently working on his memoir, featuring many more of the cases he worked with the
2:07.8	Safe Streets Task Force.
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