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James
Fitzgerald
The Academy Group, Inc. (Retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent)
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Concepts
of Forensic Linguistics & The Unabomber Investigation, A Case Study
Mr.
Fitzgerald spent 12 years as a Pennsylvania police officer before starting
his career with the FBI in 1987. Mr. Fitzgerald worked the Joint Bank
Robbery Task Force in New York, investigating bank robberies, armored car
robberies, kidnapping, threats and extortion. He was promoted in 1995 to
Criminal Profiler at the NCAVC, focusing on a number of crimes, including
homicide, serial rape, product tampering, threat assessment and text
analysis. Mr. Fitzgerald, a fully qualified forensic linguist, worked the
UNABOM Task Force and his work proved instrumental in the arrest and
successful prosecution of Theodore Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber.
Mr. Fitzgerald will give a two part presentation. In the first part
attendees will receive an introduction to Linguistics and Forensic
Linguistics, to include definitions, categories, how forensic linguistics is
used in criminal justice/private security environments, its history within
the FBI, and the Communicated Threat Assessment Research Corpus (CTARC). In
part two Mr. Fitzgerald will focus on how language, text analysis and
forensic linguistics greatly assisted in leading to the identification and
arrest of the Unabomber at a time when many other traditional investigative
methods failed.
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Investigator
Paul Goodman,
Colorado Attorney General’s Office
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Capital
Crimes Investigations
Investigator
Goodman has served in law enforcement for 36 years, including 6 years with
the Corry, PA, Police Department, 26 years with the Arapahoe County
Sheriff’s Office and 5 years with the Colorado Attorney General’s
Office. His assignments have included general investigations, burglary, vice
& narcotics and persons crimes. He currently works in the Homicide
Assistance and Capital Crimes Unit at the AG’s Office.
Investigator Goodman will present on issues unique to death penalty cases
and on interview topics and techniques used with suspect family members,
friends, co-workers and others that may help to disclose and defuse
potential defense strategies in other types of major cases.
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Special
Agent Raymond Carr,
Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Philadelphia
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The
Friday Night Bank Robber, A 30 Year Investigation
Special
Agent Carr is a 20 year veteran of the FBI who holds Masters Degrees in
Criminology and Business Administration. He has worked with the NCAVC
since 1992 and is the NCAVC coordinator for Philadelphia.
Special Agent Carr provides a very interesting case study of
the Friday Night Bank Robber who robbed more than 50 banks over 30 years
for $2 million before finally being apprehended. Special Agent Carr
provides amazing insight into the investigation, including recorded
interviews with Carl Gugasian in which he describes how he meticulously
planned and executed his robberies. Gugasian provided Special Agent Carr
with detailed information on how he selected his targets, how he disguised
himself, how he committed the robberies. how he made his getaways and more
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Special
Agent Monte Shaide
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Federal Bureau of Investigation, Salt Lake City
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Detective
Sergeant Todd Karr,
Pierce County, WA, Sheriff’s Office
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The
Army Rangers Bank Robbery Investigation, A Case Study
Special
Agent Shaide is an 11 year FBI veteran who worked over 400 bank robbery
cases while assigned to the Puget Sound Violent Crime Task Force and the
Pierce County Violent Crime Task Force (PCVCTF) in Washington.
Sergeant Karr , a former Seattle police officer, is a 21 year Pierce
County Sheriff’s Office veteran. Sergeant Karr has worked numerous
assignments, including
Special Investigations, Gang Unit, Homicide, Career Criminal Unit
and the PCVCTF.
In August, 2006, 4 males armed with assault rifles and handguns entered a
Bank of America in Tacoma and took over the bank with military style
precision and force. Two robbers covered the bank entrances while the
other two took money from teller stations and the rolling cash dispenser.
The robbers were out of the bank with $50,000 in 90 seconds. The resulting
investigation led to the identification, arrests and convictions of
several suspects who were active Army Rangers at the time of the robbery.
Special Agent Shaide and Detective Sergeant Karr, the lead PCVCTF
investigators on the case, will present a case study of the investigation
which led to the recovery of handguns, AK-47s, body armor and ammunition,
the arrest of one suspect in Greenwood Village, Colorado, identifications
of additional suspects and a casino robbery plot.
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Detective Mark Woodward,
Denver Police Department
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Bank
Robbery Update and Analysis
Detective Woodward is a
32 year veteran of the Denver Police
Department, 21 years of which he has spent in Investigations. He was assigned to
the robbery unit for 15 years before being assigned to the Rocky Mountain Safe
Streets Task Force where he has worked for the last three years. Mark has been
president of the Colorado Association of Robbery Investigators for the last 10 years.
Mark will provide an analysis of the previous year's bank robberies,
suspects and trends, as well as a look at why the number of robberies
dramatically decreased after two years of record highs.
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