Episode 165: Ken Lanning – Satanic Ritual Child Abuse, Confirmation Bias

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

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

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🗓️ 9 May 2019

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Retired agent Ken Lanning served in the FBI for more than 30 years, twenty of which he was assigned to the Behavioral Science Unit (BSU) as a profiler specializing in the study of the sexual victimization of children. He reviews the controversial topics of satanic ritual child abuse, recovered repressed memory, and the suggestibility of children. His work in this area and the ramifications of confirmation bias has divided and polarized many child advocates, the media, and the American public.

His professional study of the criminal aspects of deviant sexual behavior included assignments to the Missing and Exploited Children’s Task Force from 1996 to 1998 and the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime from 1998 to 2000. He is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) and a former member of the APSAC Advisory Board and the Advisory Board of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA).

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 165 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams.
0:13.4	I'm a retired agent on a mission to show the public who the FBI is and what the FBI does
0:20.5	through my books, my blog, and my podcast case reviews with former colleagues.
0:26.4	Today we get to speak to retired agent and profiler, Ken Lanning, who served in the FBI for more than 30 years.
0:36.9	For 20 years of his Bureau career, he was assigned to the Behavioral Science Unit, now known as the behavioral analysis unit, as a profiler
0:46.8	specializing in the study of the sexual victimization of children. In this episode, Ken reviews the controversial topics of
0:58.2	satanic ritual child abuse, recovered repressed memory, and the suggestability of children.
1:07.0	His work in this area and the ramifications of confirmation bias has divided and polarized many child advocates, the media, and the
1:17.4	American public. Ken Laning is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children.
1:28.5	He has testified many times as an expert witness in state and federal court and has consulted on
1:36.3	thousands of cases involving deviant sexual behavior, the sexual
1:42.1	victimization of children, missing and exploited children, and the use of computers
1:48.4	and the internet to facilitate the sexual exploitation of children.
1:54.0	Ken Lanning is the 2009 recipient of the Outstanding Service Award for Lifetime
2:00.6	achievements from the National Children's Advocacy Center.
2:05.0	He has lectured before and trained tens of thousands of law enforcement officers, prosecutors, social workers, mental health and
2:15.1	medical personnel, judges, and other professionals.
2:19.8	Ken Lanning is currently a consultant in the area of crimes against children and the author of
2:27.5	Love, Bombs and Malestors, an FBI agent's journey, the story of his life leading up to his assignment to the BSU, and his research involving the sexual victimization of children, satanic ritual abuse, and confirmation bias.
2:47.0	This is another long episode, but I hope you listen to the very end.
2:52.0	Ken Ladding does such a great job telling us about the satanic ritual abuse of children,
2:58.5	this phenomenon that occurred, explaining to us what confirmation bias is, and relating it all to fake news and the
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