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August 28, 2001: FBI Investigator - Candice DeLong
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Art Bell interviews retired FBI Special Agent Candice DeLong, author of Special Agent: My Life on the Front Lines as a Woman in the FBI. DeLong recounts her path from psychiatric nursing to a 20-year FBI career, beginning in 1980 when women comprised only four percent of the bureau's workforce. She shares stories of going undercover as a call-girl madam to recover stolen FBI equipment and her role in the manhunt for the Unabomber in Montana.
The conversation turns to criminal profiling, where DeLong explains how statistics guide investigations. She reveals that 95 percent of children killed by blunt force trauma in their homes were struck by a primary caretaker, and 76 percent of murdered women are killed by someone they know. She applies these principles to the then-ongoing Chandra Levy case, expressing confidence it would eventually be solved.
Art presses DeLong on Waco and Ruby Ridge, and she candidly discusses the demoralizing effect both incidents had on the FBI. She describes how lessons from those standoffs directly shaped the careful approach used to arrest Ted Kaczynski without violence. DeLong also shares her evolving views on the death penalty, noting that DNA exonerations have tempered her earlier certainty.
The conversation turns to criminal profiling, where DeLong explains how statistics guide investigations. She reveals that 95 percent of children killed by blunt force trauma in their homes were struck by a primary caretaker, and 76 percent of murdered women are killed by someone they know. She applies these principles to the then-ongoing Chandra Levy case, expressing confidence it would eventually be solved.
Art presses DeLong on Waco and Ruby Ridge, and she candidly discusses the demoralizing effect both incidents had on the FBI. She describes how lessons from those standoffs directly shaped the careful approach used to arrest Ted Kaczynski without violence. DeLong also shares her evolving views on the death penalty, noting that DNA exonerations have tempered her earlier certainty.