297: Kathryn Turman – Victim Services, Assistance and Support

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

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

4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, retired Assistant Director of the FBI Victim Services Division (VSD), Kathryn Turman reviews the VSD, the victim service specialist position, and the major cases and crisis events her staff has deployed to, providing assistance and support to victims around the world. Selected for the position by FBI Director Robert Mueller, she developed and led the FBI’s response to 9/11 victims, victims of more than 100 acts of terrorism overseas, and to more than 35 terrorism and mass violence events across the U.S. Victim services professionals at the FBI inform, support, and assist victims in navigating the aftermath of crime and the criminal justice process with dignity and resilience. Kathryn Turman served in the FBI for 20 years.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 297 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams.
0:13.3	I'm a retired agent on a mission to show you who the FBI is and what the FBI does through
0:20.4	my books, my blog and my podcast case reviews with former colleagues.
0:25.2	Today we get to speak to the retired assistant director of the FBI's Victim Services Division,
0:33.5	Catherine Turmin.
0:35.3	Catherine served in the FBI for 20 years.
0:38.8	In this episode, she reviewed the origins of the Victim Services Division, the Victim
0:45.4	Services Specialist position, and the major cases and crisis events her staff deployed
0:52.0	to, providing assistance and support to victims around the world.
0:57.8	Catherine was in charge of the Victim Services Division from 2002 to 2020.
1:05.0	Selected for the position by FBI Director Robert Mueller, she developed and led the FBI's
1:11.2	response to 9.11 victims, victims of more than 100 acts of terrorism overseas, and to more
1:18.2	than 35 terrorism and mass violence events across the US.
1:24.1	Beginning with six employees, the FBI's Victim Services Division is now comprised of
1:29.9	almost 300 victim specialists, terrorism victim service coordinators, child and adolescent
1:37.0	forensic interviewers, child victim service specialists, and international hostage family
1:43.0	engagement team and operational psychologist.
1:47.2	In her bureau career, Catherine established a Victim Services team that has become an
1:53.1	international model.
1:54.9	Prior to joining the FBI, Catherine served in the Department of Justice as Director of the
2:00.8	Missing and Exploited Children's Program, Chief of the Victim Witness Assistance Unit in
2:06.5	the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, and Director of the
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