353: Phil Partin and Derick Smith – Missing Teen Girl, CAST

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

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

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🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Retired agent Phillip Partin and Lubbock Police Detective Derick Smith review an abduction case where the subject threatened to expose explicit photos of a 14-year-old missing girl and harm her family, to coerce her to leave Texas and travel to Michigan with him. The FBI’s Cellular Analysis Survey Team (CAST) was called in to assist with the case. By tracking their phones, the unknown male abductor was identified and captured, and the teen recovered and returned home to her family.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 353 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams.
0:12.7	I'm a retired agent on a mission to show you who the FBI is and what the FBI does through my books, my blog, and my podcast case reviews
0:23.1	with former colleagues. Today we get to speak to retired agent Philip Parton and Lubick Police Detective
0:30.7	Derek Smith. They review an abduction case where the subject threatened to expose explicit photos of a 14-year-old teen
0:40.7	and harm her family, coercing her to leave Texas and travel to Michigan with him.
0:47.2	The FBI's cellular analysis survey team, Cast, was called in to assist with the case. By tracking their phones, the unknown
0:56.8	male abductor was identified and captured, and the teen was recovered and returned home to her
1:03.6	family. Phil and Derek worked on this case with Detective John Bentley. Phil Parton served in the FBI for 24 years. His first assignment was to the
1:15.3	Atlanta Division, where he worked on a gang squad and served on the SWAT team. In 2004, he was transferred to
1:22.7	El Paso, to the Midland Resident Agency, where he formed the Safe Streets Task Force and served as its coordinator.
1:31.8	Later in his career, he was appointed as a supervisory special agent for the Law Enforcement Enterprise Portal at the Criminal Justice Information Services in West Virginia.
1:43.0	Seegis.
1:44.0	He became the unit chief of the Seagis Division's
1:47.3	Intelligence Group. In 2015, Phil was appointed to the Lubbock R.A. in the Dallas Division,
1:54.7	where he formed and supervised the Innocent Images Task Force. Since his retirement, Phil is an administrator for the Texas
2:03.6	anti-gang center in Lubbock, Texas. Derek Smith is a 12-year veteran of the Lubbock Police Department.
2:11.4	He was promoted to the rank of detective in 2019. His first assignment was to the Special Victims Unit, where he primarily
2:20.2	investigated domestic violence cases. He was transferred to the Crimes Against Children Squad
2:26.0	in January of 2021. He currently serves as a member of the Lubbock Police Department,
2:32.2	Internet Crimes Against Children Investigations Unit
2:35.5	ICAC and the Dallas ICAC Task Force and is a former task force officer of the FBI's
2:44.3	Violent Crimes Against Children's Task Force. Now before we get to the case review, I want to remind everyone that I sent out my May
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