277: Michael Byrnes - Quadruple Homicide Crime Scene Search

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

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

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🗓️ 29 December 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Retired agent Michael Byrnes reviews the tragic 2017 quadruple murder of four young men in Solebury, PA, specifically the human remains search and recovery operation conducted by Philadelphia FBI ERT to assist local law enforcement officers. Mike oversaw team members from FBI, state, county, and local agencies as they identified and processed 6 separate excavation sites, ultimately recovering all four victims 5 days after commencing the operation. The murders were carried out by Cosmo DiNardo and Sean Michael Kratz who were convicted and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole by the state of Pennsylvania.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 277 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams.
0:13.1	I'm a retired agent on a mission to show you who the FBI is and what the FBI does.
0:20.2	Through my books, my blog and my podcast case reviews with former colleagues, today we
0:25.8	get to speak to retired agent Michael Burns, who served in the FBI for more than 25 years.
0:33.6	In this episode, he reviews the 2017 quadruple murder of four young men in Sol Berry, Pennsylvania.
0:43.3	Specifically, he reviews the human remains search and recovery operation conducted by
0:49.4	the Philadelphia FBI ERT to assist local law enforcement.
0:55.2	Mike oversaw team members from the FBI and state, county and local agencies as they identified
1:03.0	and process six separate excavation sites, ultimately recovering all four victims five
1:10.8	days after commencing the operation.
1:13.8	The murders were carried out by Cosmo Denardo and Sean Michael Crats, who were convicted
1:20.0	by the state of Pennsylvania and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
1:26.7	During his career, Mike Burns was assigned to the Boston, New York and Philadelphia field
1:32.4	offices.
1:33.5	He has worked white collar, economic crime and organized crime.
1:37.7	However, he was involved with the FBI's crime scene, evidence response team ERT for
1:44.2	his entire FBI career, utilizing his bachelor of science degree in chemistry from Villanova
1:51.8	University and his master's degree and forensic toxicology from the University of Florida.
1:58.5	For nearly nine years, Mike oversaw the FBI's New York City, evidence response team as
2:04.8	the senior team leader and he was also the senior team leader in Boston.
2:10.0	The quadruple homicide case that we're talking about today took place when he held the
2:15.4	position of senior team leader for six years in Philadelphia.
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