Frank Figliuzzi | Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers
Zone 7 with Sheryl McCollum
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🗓️ 4 September 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Frank Figliuzzi is a former FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence and the author of "The FBI Way" and "Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers.” Frank has a vast level of experience in law enforcement and is dedicated to raising awareness about human trafficking.
Listeners can learn more about at his website and on IG @frank.figliuzzi
In this episode of Zone 7, Crime Scene Investigator, Sheryl McCollum, is joined with FBI veteran, Frank Figliuzzi to discuss the grim realities of human trafficking and its intersection with long-haul trucking. Figliuzzi highlights the tactics used by traffickers, the vulnerability of victims, and the disturbing reality of trafficking networks that operate in plain sight. Frank also discusses the importance of awareness, collaboration among law enforcement, and the crucial role truck drivers play in identifying and reporting trafficking activities.
Show Notes:
- (0:00) Welcome back to Zone 7 with Crime Scene Investigator, Sheryl McCollum
- (0:15) Sheryl intoduces guest, Frank Figliuzzi to the listeners
- (2:30) Discussion on the misconceptions about the sex worker trade
- (4:30) The prevalence of trafficking in various industries
- (9:25) “If you've got an intersection of multiple major interstate highways with an active train station and bus station, and you have a hub for interstate trucking and rest stops, you have a trafficking problem guaranteed.”
- (10:00) The importance of recognizing trafficking in local communities
- (14:00) Fact: The number one profession of serial killers is long haul truck drivers
- (17:00) The birth of the Highway Serial Killings Initiative
- (23:00) The role local agancies play on tackling trafficking
- (26:00) The purpose of raising awareness in local communities
- (31:00) Frank on writing Long Haul: Haunting the Highway Serial Killers
- (35:00) Doing predictive analysis of trafficking victims
- (40:05) “Girls lose their lives and their identities when customers start touching them. They are no longer a person. They're a product.”
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Sheryl “Mac” McCollum is an Emmy Award winning CSI, a writer for CrimeOnLine, Forensic and Crime Scene Expert for Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, and a CSI for a metro Atlanta Police Department. She is the co-author of the textbook., Cold Case: Pathways to Justice. Sheryl is also the founder and director of the Cold Case Investigative Research Institute, a collaboration between universities and colleges that brings researchers, practitioners, students and the criminal justice community together to advance techniques in solving cold cases and assist families and law enforcement with solvability factors for unsolved homicides, missing persons, and kidnapping cases.
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| 0:00.0 | Y'all, tonight we got the real deal. Now, I know this is not what he's about. He's not in it for accolades and, you know, people bragging on him, but that's exactly what I'm fixing to do. |
| 0:27.3 | Because it is important for all of y'all to know exactly who is talking to us tonight. |
| 0:30.9 | We have Frank Figglosey. |
| 0:32.5 | Now, let me tell something. |
| 0:36.8 | He served 25 years in the FBI. |
| 0:41.7 | He was the assistant director for counterintelligence. He spent most of his time directed all espionage across all governments, levels. He was the man, making |
| 0:51.4 | sure everybody was safe. He appears weekly on MSNBC and NBC News. After the FBI, he headed |
| 0:59.7 | up security for a Fortune 10 company. Not Fortune 500, y'all. Fortune 10. There were 200,000 |
| 1:09.5 | employees in 180 countries. That's a little bit of a job. And when you're |
| 1:15.5 | talking about keeping that many people safe in that many different countries with different |
| 1:20.4 | cultures, different rules, different laws, different ways of policing, that's a whole lot of work. |
| 1:26.8 | He is the author of the FBI way inside the Bureau's |
| 1:31.2 | Code of Excellence. Now, he's written other books, so we're going to get into those in a minute. |
| 1:36.2 | But it is my honor to introduce y'all to Frank Big Lucey. |
| 1:42.6 | Cheryl, thank you for having me. |
| 1:44.5 | It feels like it's been a long time coming, but we're finally here. |
| 1:48.6 | We are finally here, and I have been so excited all week. |
| 1:52.5 | I just could not wait to get here because, you know, it's not often that you have got |
| 1:59.2 | somebody that knows secrets, keep secrets, knows how to keep people safe, |
| 2:04.7 | knows how to work under the radar, and then is willing to share some of that to keep people safe. |
| 2:11.8 | And, you know, tonight we're going to talk about a lot of things, but I'm going to let you kind of lead us. |
| 2:16.5 | You and I have talked offline, |
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