Welcome to episode

episode 305 of FBI Retired Case Fall Review with Jerry Williams.

I'm a retired agent on a mission. case my podcast case reviews with former colleagues. Today we get to speak to

retired agent Steve Bennett who served in the FBI for 23 years. In this

episode he reviews a case involving a 15 year old missing

teen who disappeared from her home but returned after a few weeks when a relative recovered a piece of paper in the girl's purse,

with the name and address of a man living in Minneapolis,

Minnesota, police suspected that the stranger had something to do with the girl's initial

disappearance.

After local detectives determined the interstate aspects of the case were beyond the scope

of their small department, the case were beyond the scope of their small department.

The case was referred to the Springfield FBI office and assigned to Steve Bennett, who, with

assistance from the Springfield Division's victim's specialists and a member of KART was able to identify,

arrest and convict the subject for interstate transportation of a minor for the purpose of sex under the Man Act.

Springville, Illinois was Steve's first office,

where he served for 10 years as a safe street

task force coordinator on cases involving the most dangerous violent offenders.

During that time Steve became a member of the SWAT team and was also a special agent assessor part of a team interviewing new special agent

candidates. After the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks Steve assisted the

evidence response team and traveled to New York to help sift through

debris from the World Trade Center attack. Upon returning to Springfield, Steve was reassigned to a counterintelligence squad.

He was later promoted to supervisory special agent in the counter-terrorism division at FBI

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