Hi everyone and welcome to episode 13 of FBI retired case file review with

Jerry Williams. I'm a retired agent writing crime fiction inspired by actual FBI cases. In this episode I get

to interview Jerry Clark. Now Jerry was the case agent on one of the most bizarre bank robberies in the history of the FBI.

Do you remember a collar bomb?

That was the case involving a pizza delivery guy who claimed to have been forced to rob a bank with a time bomb

locked around his neck. Now everybody heard about the case because the bomb

actually exploded and killed the pizza delivery guy.

But most of us, like me, did not hear about the follow-up.

Why was the bomb around his neck? Who was behind the bank

robbery? Well Jerry Clark was the FBI's lead case agent and he worked this case with ATF and with the Erie Police

Department and he has all the behind the scenes information absolutely fascinating the with the FBI, but he also worked as an NCIS agent and a DEA agent, so he's got a fascinating

career.

His interest in law enforcement was so strong that he actually earned a PhD in criminology

and currently works as an assistant professor of criminal justice at Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania.

Now before we get to that interview, I just want to mention an email that I got this week.

The email was from Ben, and Ben is a member of Infregregard and for those of you who don't know

Infregard is a partnership between the FBI and the private sector

basically people representing businesses and universities and

other types of institutions and agencies including state and local law

enforcement get together to share information and intelligence on ways to prevent

the terroristic or hostile acts against our critical infrastructure, you know, such as energy and water and

food and other type of facilities. So Ben is a member of that nonprofit organization and he suggested that I

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