She calls the Sheriff's Department and files the missing person report.

And she tells them that a lady named Donna Mason picked Susan up and was taken her somewhere.

So the officers go and find Donna, talk to her.

And she says, oh, yeah, I saw her that night.

We were going to party.

But she decided she wanted to go somewhere else.

So she dropped her off at a house on Hoover Street.

As soon as Donna said that she had dropped her off at a house on Hoover Street. As soon as Donna said that

she had dropped Susan off at this Hoover Street house, Taman knew she wasn't telling the truth

because there was no electricity at the house. Susan had an intense fear of the dark. There's no

way Susan would have willing to gone there in the middle of the night.

Welcome to episode 388 of FBI case file review with Jerry Williams.

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 colleagues. Today, we get to speak to retired agent Jerry Sperger's, who served in the

FBI for 24 years. In this episode, he reviews his investigation of the disappearance of a federal witness,

Susan Cooper, from Malvern, Arkansas. The case involved drug conspiracy, witness intimidation,

and murder. Jerry investigated this case with a team of local officers, sheriff detectives,

and an FBI intelligence analyst by using traditional

police skills and new technologies. He was a member of the Little Rock Division's evidence response

team and is an experienced death investigator. He also reviews the steps taken to collect evidence

at the crime scene of a murder or accidental death.

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