308: Barry Black – Accountant to Master Bomb Tech

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

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

4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Retired agent Barry Black was assigned to the Oklahoma City Division where he investigated complex financial crimes for the first half of his Bureau career and was a sniper on the SWAT team, before being certified as a Special Agent Bomb Technician (SABT). In this episode, he reviews two cases, the first a medical supply investment fraud case, which was featured on an episode of Unsolved Mysteries. For the second, he reviews the initial investigative steps he took as a bomb tech responding to his first post blast crime scene, the Oklahoma City Bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, where the lives of 168 people, including 19 children were lost. Barry shares how that tragic event shaped his career and led to his being recognized as a Master Bomb Technician. Barry Black served in the FBI for 31 years.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 308 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams.
0:12.0	I'm a Retired agent on a mission to show you who the
0:15.8	FBI is and what the FBI does through my books, my blog, and my podcast case
0:21.6	reviews with former colleagues. Today we get to speak to
0:25.9	retired agent Barry Black who served in the FBI for 31 years. He was assigned to the Oklahoma City Field Office where he
0:35.3	investigated complex financial crimes for the first half of his Bureau
0:39.6	career before being certified as a special agent bomb technician,
0:44.2	SABT, and reassigned to the Oklahoma City's joint terrorism task force.
0:50.6	In this episode he'll review two cases the first one a medical supply
0:56.4	investment fraud case where investors nationwide were duped out of more than 1.4 million dollars. The case was highlighted on an
1:06.2	episode of the TV show Unsolved Mysteries. In the second part of the episode, he'll review the initial steps he took when responding to the Oklahoma City bombing of the Alfred P. Murrow Federal Building, where the lives of 168 people, including 19 children, were lost.
1:28.0	Barry, who was recognized as a master bomb technician, shares how this tragic event,
1:34.9	his first as a certified bomb tech
1:38.0	affected the rest of his Bureau career.
1:41.1	Barry served as an adjunct faculty member at the FBI Academy, a subject matter
1:46.8	expert for the US State Department, and an instructor for NATO's Center of Excellence.
1:54.1	He has been a guest lecturer at police departments
1:58.2	and military academies around the world,
2:01.1	including Scotland Yard.
2:03.2	Since retiring from the FBI, Barry is an adjunct faculty member at the University of
2:08.9	Central Oklahoma's Forensic Science Institute. He has served as a consultant and provides commentary
2:16.2	on national and international events for media outlets such as the BBC, the History Channel, Fox News, CNN, and was recently a guest on the TV
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