Episode 184: Eileen Roemer – FBI Cadaver Dogs, 9/11 Search and Recovery - a podcast by Jerri Williams

Retired agent Eileen Roemer served for twenty years in the FBI. Before entering on duty, she had been commissioned as an Officer in the US Navy, attaining the rank of Captain as a reservist. During her Bureau career, she investigated White Collar Crime, Violent Crime, Organized Crime, and Counterterrorism. In this episode of FBI Retired Case File Review, Eileen Roemer reviews her time training her FBI cadaver dogs, Riley and Bailey, both Golden Retrievers.  She discusses the search and recovery work she and her dogs were assigned, locating human remains at crime sites, including the Pentagon where she responded with them for twelve days immediately following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

At the time she began working with her cadaver dogs, Eileen Roemer was a Supervisory Special Agent and Psychological Profiler in the Profiling Unit, now known as the BAU, at Quantico, Virginia. She is a trained Police Instructor, Crisis Manager, and Crisis/Hostage Negotiator. Later in her career, she was assigned to Gulfport, Mississippi, where she supervised 25 Special Agents and Task Force Officers and to the Department of Homeland Security as Senior FBI Liaison.  

Following retirement, she worked as a consultant for the National Counterterrorism Center and US Central Command. She served on the Board of the Women’s Resource Center of Sarasota, Florida. On October 19, 2019, she will be installed as the President of the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI. She was previously elected as a Foundation Trustee and a Regional Vice President for the organization.

 

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Jerri Williams, a retired FBI agent, author and podcaster, attempts to relive her glory days by writing and blogging about the FBI and hosting FBI Retired Case File Review, a true crime/history podcast. Her new book FBI Myths and Misconceptions: A Manual for Armchair Detectives is available as an audiobook, ebook and paperback wherever books are sold. 

 

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