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The FBI Files

The FBI Files is an American docudrama that takes a look behind the scenes of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's crime laboratory.

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Today · 50 min
He Painted His Face Silver. Then He Killed His Parole Officer.
In September 1986, a federal parolee named Michael Wayne Jackson shot his probation officer, killed a grocery clerk, and led law enforcement on an eleven-day, three-state manhunt. He had painted his face silver. He had vowed he would never be taken...
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Yesterday · 50 min
She Was Locked in a Metal Cabinet. The FBI Had Eight Days to Find Her.
In June 1998, a 21-year-old Indiana woman was abducted from her home by a registered sex offender she knew from her gym. He used a stun gun, hid her in the trunk of her own car, and drove her to Wisconsin, where he locked her in a metal cabinet. For...
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Friday · 50 min
They Thought They Smashed the Camera. A Dummy VCR Was Hiding the Real One.
In July 1996, two young men walked into a pawn shop on Highway 280 in Shelby County, Alabama, and executed the owner and his manager. They thought they had smashed the surveillance camera. They were wrong. A dummy VCR was hiding the real recorder, and...
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Thursday · 50 min
He Sold Cocaine From a Pizzeria. Then He Bombed the DEA.
In 1990, a Fort Myers drug dealer named Jeffrey Matthews became the only person to bomb a DEA office on American soil. He had been indicted two days earlier. A federal witness was already dead. This is the story of the pipe bomb, the 23-day manhunt,...
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Tuesday · 49 min
He Waited Three Hours Above the Bank. Then He Dropped Through the Ceiling
In 1993, a robber waited three hours in the crawl space above a California bank before dropping through the ceiling, stealing $35,000, and escaping in a running gun battle with police. Two months later, the same man masterminded the kidnapping of a...
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Monday · 51 min
He Waited in Rush-Hour Traffic. Then He Walked Car to Car with an AK-47
On January 25, 1993, a lone gunman stepped out of his car in rush-hour traffic outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, and fired an AK-47 into the vehicles of CIA employees. Two were killed, three wounded. The killer fled to Pakistan. This is...
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November 8 · 50 min
Hunting Paul Franklin The FBI Files
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/fbi-files--7331575/support. Thanks for listening to The FBI Files. New cases every week — follow now so you never miss one. This podcast is a narrative retelling based on publicly available information and is intended for entertainment purposes. This episode includes AI-generated content.
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November 7 · 49 min
Honor Student, Class Clown, $340: The Teens Who Killed Two Dartmouth Professors
On a Saturday morning in January 2001, two teenagers knocked on the door of a house in Etna, New Hampshire, and asked to talk about an environmental survey. They were let in. Minutes later, two beloved Dartmouth College professors, Half and Susanne...
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November 6 · 50 min
He Was Fired on Thursday. He Robbed the Vault on Friday Night.
On the night of September 12, 1997, six men stole $18.9 million from the Dunbar Armored depot in Los Angeles — the largest cash robbery in U.S. history at the time. The mastermind was a security inspector fired one day earlier. The FBI found a...
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November 5 · 49 min
They Bombed a Newspaper and Robbed a Bank. Then They Did It Again.
In 1996, a cell of domestic terrorists bombed a Spokane newspaper and a Planned Parenthood clinic, robbing the same bank minutes after each attack. The FBI traced the bombs to the Phineas Priesthood, a white supremacist ideology, and hunted the men...
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November 4 · 49 min
Two Customs Inspectors, One Family, One Border Crossing: The 1984 Kidnapping of Richard Latham
On a Friday afternoon in January 1984, U.S. Customs Inspector Richard Latham looked under the back seat of a car at the Del Rio port of entry and found a bag of stolen jewelry. Minutes later, four men forced him into the car at gunpoint and drove...
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November 3 · 50 min
A British Major Stopped for Gas. Two Escaped Convicts Needed His Car.
A British Army major stops for gas in New Mexico and vanishes. His rental car is found submerged in an Indiana lake. The FBI has two escaped Alabama convicts, a passport, and a trail of stolen vehicles — but no body. This is the story of the manhunt,...
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November 2 · 50 min
A Murder, a Wire, a Zurich Hotel Room: How the FBI Took Down the Chippendales Founder
In a hotel room in Zurich, a businessman asked an old associate whether the FBI had ever mentioned "the D," a code word for a murder. The associate was wearing a wire. Steve Banerjee built Chippendales into a worldwide brand. In 1987, his business...
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November 1 · 49 min
A Bomb in the Statue of Liberty. The FBI Had to Dismantle a Network.
In 1980, a bomb exploded inside the museum at the base of the Statue of Liberty. Five groups claimed responsibility. The FBI traced it to a Croatian nationalist network called Otpor — and spent years building a racketeering case that would dismantle...
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October 31 · 51 min
She Won $5,000 at Blackjack. A Maroon Beretta Was Waiting in the Driveway.
A 25-year-old mother wins $5,000 at a Mississippi casino and is abducted from a Memphis driveway hours later. The FBI finds a single wool fiber in a maroon Beretta, a casino surveillance tape, and a killer’s confession to his wife. This is the case...
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October 30 · 50 min
They Slept in a Culvert. The Manhunt Ended Where the Road Ran Out.
A nationwide manhunt for two killers ends in a concrete culvert near Santa Fe, New Mexico, in September 1994. Lewis Gilbert and Eric Elliott had left a trail of stolen cars and bodies across Ohio, Missouri and Oklahoma. This is the story of how the...
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October 29 · 49 min
He Lost His Hands, Escaped, and Fled.The Bomb-Maker Who Vanished to Cuba.
Four men having lunch at a historic Manhattan tavern in 1975 are killed by a bomb planted by the FALN, a Puerto Rican nationalist group. The FBI identifies the chief bomb-maker, William Morales, but he loses his hands in an explosion, escapes from a...
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October 28 · 49 min
100 Officers, 3 Days, One Wyoming Rancher: How the Charles Moses Manhunt Ended
For three days in February 2000, more than 100 officers, airplanes, and military helicopters searched the frozen plains of western Nebraska. Schools closed. A farmer was dead, and two officers had been shot. The man they were looking for, Charles...
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October 27 · 50 min
Real Cops, a Fake Raid, 3 Drownings: How the Miami River Cops Were Caught
In July 1985, three men drowned in the Miami River during what looked like a drug deal gone wrong. Then a night watchman said the men who stormed the boat yard were police officers. The Miami River Cops, a group of officers nicknamed the Enterprise,...
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October 26 · 50 min
The Lawyer Who Taught Police About Money Laundering, Then Ordered His Wife's Murder
He taught police officers how to catch money launderers. A federal jury concluded he was laundering drug money himself, and that when his wife threatened to expose him, he arranged her murder. Fred Tokars was a respected Atlanta lawyer and former...
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