176: Michael Harrigan – ViCAP, Highway Serial Killings Initiative (Part 1)

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

True Crime, Interviews, Fiction, History, Fbi, Government, Truecrime

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🗓️ 25 July 2019

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Retired agent Michael Harrigan reviews the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP), the largest repository of serial violent crime cases in the country, and the Highway Serial Killings Initiative. He was the unit’s chief and oversaw the development of the web database, which allows client law enforcement agencies direct access to conduct independent analysis. He also provides case studies of several serial killers, including Samuel Little, who may be the most prolific in U.S. History.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 176 of FBI Retired Case File Review of Jerry Williams.
0:12.4	I'm a retired agent on a mission to show the public
0:15.7	who the FBI is and what the FBI does through my books, my blog, and my podcast
0:21.9	case reviews were former colleagues. Today we get to speak to
0:26.7	retired agent Michael Herrigan who served in the FBI for 22 years. He initially worked general criminal and
0:36.1	terrorism cases in the Kansas City Division and was on the attorney general's
0:40.9	protection detail and was a police training coordinator at the Washington
0:46.0	Field Office. In this episode, he reviews the violent criminal apprehension program VICAP, the largest repository of
0:57.4	serial violent crime cases in the country and he talks about the highway serial killings initiative.
1:05.0	Mike Herrigan was the unit's chief and oversaw the development of the web database which allows client law enforcement agencies direct access to
1:16.2	conduct independent analysis.
1:19.2	He also provides case studies of several serial killers including Samuel Little, who may be the most
1:26.4	prolific serial killer in U.S. history.
1:30.0	Later in his career, Mike Herrigan was assigned as the supervisory senior resident agent in the Farmington and Gallup offices of the Albuquerque Division, where he conducted and supervised criminal investigations
1:45.0	involving homicides, sexual assaults, kidnappings, missing persons, and unidentified human human remains and was responsible for all federal
1:56.4	investigations on three Native American reservations. After a few years
2:01.6	he accepted an assignment in Quantico Virginia as the chief of the
2:06.7	National Academy program. The National Academy, or N A, is the leading national law enforcement executive leadership institution
2:16.3	graduating over 1800 senior law enforcement officers from every state and more than 40 countries.
2:25.0	Just before his retirement, Mike Herrigan was the chief of the FBI Academy's
2:30.4	firearms training program.
2:32.3	Currently, Mike is a subject matter expert for Eagle, a security and risk management service for which he provides consultation and expert testimony related to violent criminal
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