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🗓️ 25 September 2025
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Retired agent Carrie Landau reviews her sex trafficking investigation of the man who had held sixteen-year-old Desiree Robinson against her will and trafficked her for sex on the website Backpage. Desiree was murdered by a man who answered the online advertisement. Carrie Landau served in the FBI for 21 years. During her Bureau career, she specialized in Crimes Against Children and Human Trafficking Investigations and received the Hero's Award from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
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| 0:00.0 | I find the exact words in the Facebook post and it said, I'm in a bad situation where I'm being pimped at his house. |
| 0:11.3 | He won't let me leave. |
| 0:12.7 | I jump up from my couch and I scream, you are done, Joseph Haisley. |
| 0:19.1 | You are done. |
| 0:20.4 | This is everything we needed and then some. |
| 0:26.4 | Welcome to episode 371 of FBI case file review with Jerry Williams. |
| 0:34.9 | I'm a retired agent on a mission to show you who the FBI is and what the |
| 0:40.5 | FBI does through my books, my blog, and my podcast case reviews with former colleagues. Today, we get to |
| 0:47.4 | speak to retired agent Carrie Landau, who served in the FBI for 21 years. In this episode, she reviews her sex trafficking investigation |
| 0:58.9 | of the man who held 16-year-old Desiree Robinson against her will and trafficked her for sex on backpage.com. |
| 1:09.3 | Desiree was murdered by a man who answered the online |
| 1:13.2 | advertisement. The trafficker was convicted and sentenced to 32 years in prison. The murderer |
| 1:20.4 | was sentenced to 39 years in prison and the man who introduced and sold Desiree to her trafficker was sentenced to seven years in prison. |
| 1:31.1 | Desire's mother, Yvonne Ambrose, has dedicated her life to preventing and ending sex trafficking |
| 1:37.7 | by bringing awareness to the dangers of modern-day slavery. |
| 1:42.1 | You can learn more at Desiree Foundation Against Sex Trafficking. During |
| 1:47.8 | retired agent Carrie Landell's Bureau career, she specialized in crimes against children and human |
| 1:54.9 | trafficking investigations. Carrie was stationed in Cleveland, Ohio, and Chicago, and was assigned to multiple Safe Street |
| 2:02.9 | Task Forces that included investigating violent crime, gangs, and drugs. |
| 2:08.4 | Perry served as the Crimes Against Children Coordinator for the entire FBI Chicago Division |
| 2:14.5 | for six years and for 19 years in the south suburbs of Chicago. |
| 2:19.8 | Kerry was also the North Central Team leader on the Child Abduction Rapid Deployment Team. |
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