San Bernardino Shooting Conspiracy, LAUSD Terror Panic + the Hot Car Death Trial with Jim Fitzgerald

The FBI investigation of Syed Farook, Tashfeen Malik, and their neighbor Enrique Marquez-the alleged San Bernardino terrorists, as well as the LAUSD school closure following a terror threat that was later deemed as not credible is examined with retired FBI agent Jim Fitzgerald. The guns, social media, and the family around the shooters are explored deeper with attention to the case being built by the FBI. We also get the latest on the hot car death trial of Justin Harris, who is on trial for the death of his child that he left in a car while he worked and sexted, as well as the faked suicide by poisoning of Stacey Castor is looked at in this uncensored Crime Time, hosted by Allison Hope Weiner.

Guest Bio

James R. Fitzgerald was the Program Manager of Threat Assessment/Forensic Linguistics at the Behavioral Analysis Unit 1 of the FBI. Fitzgerald knew little about profiling or linguistics when he joined the FBI in 1987. But, while assigned to the field office in New York City, he worked cases involving stalking or threatening letters sent to Jane Pauley, Bryant Gumbel, Don Imus, Donald Trump, and Rush Limbaugh, among others.

In 1995, Fitzgerald became a profiler at the FBI Academy at Quantico, Va. As part of Fitzgerald’s profiler training, he learned about analyzing communications. He later obtained a Master’s degree in linguistics from Georgetown University. (This was his second MS. His first was in Organizational Psychology at Villanova University.) As he has at his present company, The Academy Group, Fitzgerald created a linguistic-oriented database of threatening and/or suspicious letters, similar to one the Secret Service maintains.Fitzgerald now works for the Academy Group in Manassas, Va., which provides profiling services for private industry as well as a university instructor, author, and technical advisor for television programs (Criminal Minds) involving the Federal Bureau of Investigation.