355: Martin Reardon – Top Ten Predator Manhunt, LEGAT Riyadh and Doha

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

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

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🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Retired agent Martin Reardon reviews his Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution (UFAP) nationwide manhunt for a child predator wanted for the 1995 kidnapping and rape of a 9-year-old girl. Released from state prison just weeks earlier, Rickey Allen Bright had served 15 years of a life sentence for a 1979 offense involving a 6-year-old girl. Due to the heinous nature of the offense and his previous conviction, Bright was named to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitive List and featured on America’s Most Wanted and Unsolved Mysteries. He was fugitive #444 and on the top ten list for three weeks. He was ultimately captured during the January 1996 East Coast blizzard just hours after America’s Most Wanted aired the segment about the manhunt for the third time.

After the case review, Marty also talks about his assignment as a Legal Attaché in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and Doha, Qatar, and his post-FBI career in the Middle East.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 355 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
0:20.1	through my books, my blog, and my podcast case
0:23.0	reviews with former colleagues. Today, we get to speak to retired agent Martin Reardon, who
0:30.4	served in the FBI for 21 years. In this episode, he reviews his unlawful flight to avoid prosecution, UFAP, nationwide manhunt for a child
0:43.3	predator, wanted for the kidnapping and rape of a nine-year-old girl.
0:48.8	Released from state prison just weeks earlier, Ricky Allen Bright had served 15 years of a life sentence for a
0:57.0	offense involving a six-year-old girl. Due to the heinous nature of the offense and his previous
1:04.1	conviction, Bright was named to the FBI's 10 most wanted list and featured on America's Most Wanted and Unsolved Mysteries.
1:13.8	He was ultimately captured during the January 1996 East Coast Blizzard, just hours after America's
1:22.7	Most Wanted aired his segment for the third time.
1:26.3	After the case review, Marty Reardon talks about his assignment
1:30.6	as a legal attaché in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and Doha, Qatar, as well as his post-FBI career in the Middle East.
1:40.8	Marty's first FBI assignment was to the Charlotte Division's Hickory, North Carolina
1:46.6	resident agency, where he conducted bank robbery, fugitives, white-collar crime, organized crime,
1:53.5	and drug trafficking investigations with local and state law enforcement agencies. He was the
2:00.2	sniper team leader of the SWAT team.
2:02.8	Marty also supervised a multi-agency organized crime task force. A couple of years after the terrorist
2:10.3	attacks of September 11th, Marty served as the FBI's assistant legal attach in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where he worked closely with the U.S.
2:20.6	and host country security and intelligence services in several high-profile terrorism investigations.
2:27.7	His next assignment was as the FBI's legat in Doha, Qatar, where he oversaw the Bureau's counterterrorism and counterintelligence
2:37.0	efforts in that country. Following his overseas tours, Marty was then assigned to the FBI's
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