Special Agent: Life in the FBI
The Fall Line: True Crime
The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC
4.6 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
In this interview, Brooke speaks with Jerri Williams. Jerri became a special agent with the FBI in 1982 and retired after 26 years of service. She is now in her second career as a crime fiction author and podcast host/producer. In her book, FBI Myths and Misconceptions: A Manual for Armchair Detectives, Jerri helps readers compare mass media portrayals of the FBI with the reality. Be sure you check out her podcast, FBI Retired Casefile Review.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Fall line. |
| 0:23.2 | This year, we're expanding the Fall line's coverage to include several long-form interviews |
| 0:29.3 | with people who work to solve crime, whether it's through genealogy, law enforcement, forensic |
| 0:35.6 | anthropology, or even statistics. |
| 0:38.8 | For our first interview, Brooke speaks with Jerry Williams. |
| 0:43.0 | Jerry became a special agent with the FBI in 1982 and retired after 26 years of service. |
| 0:50.2 | In her book, FBI Myths and Conceptions, a manual for armchair detectives, Jerry helps readers |
| 0:57.2 | compare mass media portrayals of the FBI with a reality. |
| 1:01.4 | Be sure you check out her podcast, FBI Retired Case File Review. |
| 1:06.5 | Her podcast episodes are fascinating, and there's something for everyone. |
| 1:12.0 | Brooke's top picks will be linked in the show notes and will be discussed in this interview. |
| 1:17.4 | The first is an interview with Wayne Davis about his experience as one of the first ever |
| 1:22.2 | Black Special Agents in the FBI. |
| 1:25.5 | The second is a two-episode series with retired special agent, Jeff Reineck, where he discusses |
| 1:31.9 | his experience chasing child predators and the PTSD he experienced as a result. |
| 1:39.1 | You can learn more about Jerry's projects at her website, jerrywilliams.com. |
| 1:44.5 | You can learn more about Jerry's projects at her website, jerrywilliams.com. |
| 1:49.9 | If it's cool with you, we could just go right in to the first questions. |
| 1:55.0 | I would love for you to tell our listeners how your time as a youth probation officer |
| 2:00.0 | and the experience of your roommate going into law enforcement led you to the FBI. |
| 2:05.5 | My first professional job after graduating from college was as a, well, they called it |
| 2:12.4 | a juvenile probation officer, but my actual title was After Care Counselor. |
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