Weekend Series on Crime: A Vintage FBI Bank Robbery Training Film
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By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — It was noon on a Friday. I was reporter at The Detroit News. It was two days after the April 19, 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Before long, another reporter and I were speeding north on I-75 to Decker, in the Michigan Thumb, to check out an FBI raid…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A 45-year-old Mississippi man accused of sending ricin-tainted letters to national leaders, including President Obama, was a loving father but battled mental illnesses and delusions, family members told the Associated Press. Paul Kevin Curtis was convinced the government was thwarting an investigation into an elaborate plot sell body parts on the black…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com New FBI records suggest that Saudis who had lived in Florida before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks helped the hijackers, prompting revived calls for an investigation into co-conspirators, BrowardBulldog.org reports. “One question that has gone unanswered through the investigation of 9/11 is ‘Did the hijackers operate alone or did they have accomplices…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com As a former ATF supervisor and the current Medina police chief in Ohio, Patrick Berarducci knows a thing or two about gun safety. But that didn’t stop the 62-year-old with more than 40 years of experience in law enforcement from accidentally shooting himself in the leg at home, the Cleveland Plain Dealer…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Technology has come a long way since Atlanta’s Olympic Park bombing nearly 17 years ago, NPR explains in an audio cast. The FBI examined more than 10 terabytes of video and images from the Boston Marathon bombing. To put that into perspective, it would take one person more than five years to…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A wild, bullet-riddled night ended this morning with the death of a campus police officer and one of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing; the other bombing suspect was at large as of 8:30 a.m., the New York Times reported this morning. One of the suspects and an M.I.T. police officer…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI released photos today of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing, urging the public to help track down the men. Richard DesLauriers, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Boston office, said one of the suspects appeared to drop a black backpack near twin explosions that killed three and injured…