Hey guys, I hope you're having an amazing Easter. I decided to take a little bit of time off this week so that I could spend some time with my family and not really have to worry about a ton. So in the meantime, we're going to drop an episode of critical incidents, the podcast that my snack of a husband does. And honestly, it might be cooler than mine. So with no further ado, here you go.

He was not called the Golden State Killer at the time. He was known as the East Area

rapist. This is the kind of case I had hoped to work on someday in my career. He did

escalate from burglary to sexual assault to sexual murder.

He did almost the same thing every single time, and if things didn't go right for him,

then he abandoned his plan, and sometimes that was with devastating consequences. Welcome to Critical Incidents Podcast.

I'm your host, Kyle Ashley, a law enforcement veteran with over a decade of experience.

Each episode, I'll be interviewing people about their own critical incident, a moment in

their lives that shaped who they are today.

From life-threatening emergencies to personal struggles, we'll hear firsthand accounts of resilience,

determination, and the power of the human spirit.

Join me through some of the most critical incidents that have changed people's lives forever. My name is Julia Cowley. I'm a retired FBI agent, and I was also a certified FBI profiler during my

career with the FBI. Prior to that, I worked for the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation as a forensic

scientist.

So with that job, I had two sets of responsibilities.

One was working in the laboratory.

I was a forensic toxicologist.

So I analyzed bodily fluids for drugs, alcohols, and toxins. Sometimes I'd get body parts to analyze to see if

there may be poison in them. So it was interesting work to say the least. I also did a lot of

DUI cases. We did a lot of those in the crime lab. But we'd get a lot of sometimes death cases that were interesting, that were real mysteries,

that I enjoyed working on those.

And then the other part of my job, I was a member of the crime scene response team or the violent crime response team, I think, is what it at the time so I would go out to homicide scenes and process those as part of

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