http://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/u76wk-3d4db/FBI+Retired+Case+File+Review+with+Jerri+Williams
Awesome podcast! It's in two parts. It's an interview with FBI agent Eddie Freyer who worked the Polly Klaas (PK) case from 1993 in California. Please take some time to listen to it. The posts on WS for the Libby and Abby investigation have slowed to a pace that maybe you feel like you can spare some time to listen to a success story.
I'd first like to mention that there are a few parallels between PK case and the Libby/Abby case: both have garnered national exposure, thousands of tips have been generated in both, both are high profile cases, both have taken their toll on the officers working the case, both have had multiple LE agencies involved, both have had sizable rewards offered, both have "eye witness" descriptions of the perp (in PK's it was a composite sketch made from two girls who were with PK when she was abducted; in L/A's it comes from a still image and audio captured on a cell phone.)
I'm going to note some excerpts from this podcast, but I urge everyone to at least listen to Part 1 of the interview with Eddie Freyers. It is lengthy at 1 hour 16 minutes but does move along pretty well.
In 1993, the FBI tip processing program was in it's infancy, but designed to handle and process all aspects of a major crime investigation.
They ended up processing over 60,000 tips in the 65 days of the investigation! We here in Indiana are at about a month and have 11,000. So as you can see, 60,000 handled in a program that's new and untested compared to 11,000 being handled by a program that the FBI has had 14 years to perfect, we surely have the advantage now. I have no doubt that the tips called in so far for Libby and Abby have been handled as best as is possible with the technology LE has at it's disposal.
It was heartbreaking to hear this FBI agent share that after being at two months into the investigation, he was close to having a nervous breakdown from the pressures of the case, from the personal sacrifices and commitments he had to make. I'm sure those LE officers on LA's case are feeling the same.
As the days and weeks passed, the LE in PK's case fell under intense scrutiny by the public, the families, the media, who were frustrated with the lack of progress in the case. (Sound familiar?)
Their big break came from an incident called into the sheriff's office of the county where the crime occurred, about 2 months after the abduction. It wasn't even linked to Polly Klaas immediately. It was a routine call that a deputy was sent out to investigate. Upon investigating the call, the deputy decided to call it into the LE running the PK investigation, not even knowing if it's related. It turns out it was the piece that broke the case wide open and solved the murder.
Let's hope and pray that somehow and someday soon that a simple call comes in that leads to breaking the Libby and Abby case wide open.
http://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/u76wk-3d4db/FBI+Retired+Case+File+Review+with+Jerri+Williams