Welcome to episode 226 of FBI Retired 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 Roland Rod Swanson, who served in the FBI for 20 years.

On October 1, 2017 and what was the largest mass shooting incident in US history, 58 concert

goers were killed.

An additional 422 people were shot to who later died.

And more than 800 people were injured at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada.

In this episode, Rod Swanson reviews how, although retired, he used his FBI experience

in training to assist FBI victim services personnel with a recovery, identification and

return of personal items left behind by victims of the Las Vegas mass shooting.

He shares his initial frustration when he realized that his retirement status meant

he could not participate in the investigation of this major crisis event, the exact type

of crisis event that he had prepared for during his bureau career.

A career that began with his first assignment to the Philadelphia Division where he worked

on the Violent Crimes fugitive task force was a relief supervisor, a SWAT team operator

and a firearms instructor.

He was next selected to become a member of director Mueller's protective detail and then

served as an international terrorism operation supervisor at FBI headquarters.

He was later promoted to supervise the transnational, criminal enterprise squad and the joint

terrorism task force in the Las Vegas field office.

He was also assigned as a deputy on scene commander and Baghdad, and as the legal attache

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