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FBI Case File Review

362: Kathy Adams – Kidnapped Restaurant Owner

FBI Case File Review

Jerri Williams

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

4.62.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ ? minutes

Summary

Retired agent Kathy Adams reviews the rescue of a restaurant owner who was kidnapped for ransom at gunpoint from his Champaign, Illinois, Mexican restaurant and held for five days in September 2006. Using cell site analysis during the multi-state investigation, Kathy, along with FBI agents assigned to Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin and FBI Headquarters, along with investigators from the Champaign Police Department, were able to identify, track and arrest the kidnappers. The victim was rescued from a motel room in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and most of the $250,000 ransom money recovered.

Kathy Adams was the first female FBI agent to become a SWAT team operator and was the first female FBI SWAT team leader. She served in the FBI for nearly 29 years.
 
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