331: Dr. Kirk Yeager - Bomb Doctor, FBI Explosives Unit
FBI Retired Case File Review
Jerri Williams
4.6 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2024
⏱️ 76 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 331 of FBI Retired |
| 0:09.4 | Case File Review with Jerry Williams. I'm a retired agent on a mission to show you who |
| 0:16.7 | the FBI is and what the FBI does through my books, my blog and my podcast case reviews with former colleagues. |
| 0:25.1 | Today we get to speak to Dr. Kirk Yeager, the FBI's current chief explosive scientist. |
| 0:34.4 | Kirk reviews his experiences working as a physical scientist and forensic examiner |
| 0:41.2 | for the FBI Laboratory's explosive unit, where he has analyzed many of the world's |
| 0:48.1 | biggest explosive crime scenes. Kirk is the FBI's top bomb expert. He and his team are tasked with analyzing |
| 0:57.8 | explosives made by terrorists and developing advanced techniques to detect and prevent the next bombing. |
| 1:04.9 | Kirk has nearly 30 years of experience with improvised explosives and improvised explosive |
| 1:11.9 | devices, IEDs, and has deployed |
| 1:15.0 | deployed as a bombing crime scene investigator to dozens of countries around the world. |
| 1:21.0 | Kirk has worked many of the most notable terrorism bomb attacks in recent history. |
| 1:26.0 | Bali in October 2002, Beirut in June 2005, and the Boston Marathon bombing in April 2013. |
| 1:36.5 | Over the course of his career, he has served as a subject matter expert |
| 1:41.6 | for the National Academies of Sciences, worked as a technical advisor for the TV show Mythbusters, and has been the subject of a feature article in popular mechanics. |
| 1:53.7 | Kurt has co-authored with his sister, Selene Yeager, |
| 1:58.1 | the Bomb Doctor, a scientist's story of bombers, Beakers, and Bloodhounds. In his book he takes readers behind the caution |
| 2:06.9 | tape at crime scenes and behind the do not enter signs on the laboratory doors, giving them a front row view of the scientific |
| 2:15.6 | forensics it takes to solve cases and bring bombers to justice. During the case |
| 2:21.6 | review Kirk mentioned several bomb crime scenes that I've covered in other FBI retired case file episodes. |
| 2:29.0 | I've tried my best to provide the episode numbers, but you can also use the search bar at the bottom of my |
| 2:35.9 | website to find those episodes. In your podcast app's description of this episode you'll find a link to join my reader team where I talk |
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