385: Jerri Williams - 10th Anniversary Show and Listener Q and A
FBI Case File Review
Jerri Williams
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🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 385 of FBI case file review with Jerry Williams. |
| 0:12.1 | 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 with former |
| 0:24.2 | colleagues. Today we get to speak to me. Today is my 10th anniversary solo episode. Can you believe I've been |
| 0:36.9 | doing this for 10 years? I released my first episode. Can you believe I've been doing this for 10 years? I released my first episode of FBI |
| 0:43.0 | case file review on January 22nd, 2016. I also wrote my first blog post that month, and then later |
| 0:53.1 | in the year in September, my first crime novel was |
| 0:56.8 | published. So, 2026 marks my 10th anniversary as an FBI focus storyteller. My initial goal was to |
| 1:06.7 | become a best-selling crime novelist. It still is. The podcast was an afterthought, simply a way to |
| 1:15.3 | find people who might be interested in reading my books. But what began as a marketing tool |
| 1:22.5 | involved into my purpose-driven mission to preserve the FBI's institutional knowledge and protect the public's |
| 1:31.8 | positive perception of the FBI. The next thing I knew, I wasn't identifying myself as an author |
| 1:38.5 | anymore. I was now a podcaster. Let me tell you more about why I've been doing this show for 10 years. |
| 1:48.7 | Then I'll talk about how I do this show. The first part's only 15 minutes long. And then the |
| 1:55.3 | second half of this episode, I'll answer all of those Ask Me Anything questions you sent in. |
| 2:02.6 | So shortly after I started the show, specifically in July of 2016, the FBI was pulled |
| 2:09.5 | kicking and screaming into the intense public debate of the presidential campaign. As I witnessed |
| 2:16.4 | the news and social media question the Bureau's |
| 2:19.6 | integrity, FBI case file review became almost like a public service project for me. You hear me say |
| 2:27.3 | this often. What people know about the FBI, they learn mostly from books, TV shows, and movies. So let me share this clip from the |
| 2:37.9 | movie, The FBI Story, filmed in 1959, to help me explain my why. I am your new director. |
| 2:46.7 | I did not ask for the position, but now that I have it, I intend to give it the best I have. |
| 2:51.6 | I took the position on one condition, that the Bureau would be free of politics and would be operated on a merit basis. |
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