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The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration in the United States. Since it was

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This is a story about a fugitive who's been on the run for more than 30 years.

A good American is a dead American. And the special agent who spent

decades trying to bring him to justice. If he had hung himself I wouldn't

have lost no wink asleep. It's about a man whose crimes appear to have simply drifted away.

Or have they?

I'm Chloe Hadgemethai.

From Tortoise, this is the Gas Man.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts. When Scott told me about this case, I just knew that we needed to highlight it, that we needed to share it because even before I knew all the details, even before always going down the rabbit hole because I'm a person always going down the rabbit hole pulling up news articles and videos or whatever I can find about FBI cases.

Even just hearing just a little bit about it,

I knew that this was a case that needed to be told,

that people need needed to remember.

That's Jerry Williams.

She worked for the FBI for over two decades,

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