Top Ten Art Crimes Addition
A 17th century Dutch painting stolen last month from an Australian art gallery has been added to the FBI’s Top Ten Art Crimes list. The painting, A Cavalier, by Baroque-era artist Frans Van Mieris, is valued at more than $1 million.

Our Role in Bridge Probe, Part III
Tim Gossfeld, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Minneapolis field office, was heading out the door August 1 when a night clerk informed him, “I-35W just fell into the Mississippi River.” The rush-hour collapse set in motion a well-rehearsed protocol for responding to worst-case scenarios.

Marine charged with 225 counts of abuse (AP)
AP - A Marine drill instructor has been charged with 225 criminal counts connected to abusing recruits, a Marines spokesman said Thursday.

Relentless Pursuit of a Killer
There are two things that seemed to define Tommy Henderson’s life of crime–he liked to settle scores with a gun and he didn’t like witnesses. “Dead men tell no tales,” he would say. He thought he could get away with murder. And if it hadn’t been for two investigators (left), he just may well have.

New York Intelligence Infusion
The nation’s largest anti-terrorism task force-working out of our New York office in the heart of Manhattan-has a lot of new faces these days. Not just new investigators from a legion of agencies, but also intelligence analysts, lots of them, from the FBI and some 20 other government entities.

Our Role in Bridge Probe, Part II
In the hours after the I-35W bridge collapsed in Minneapolis, FBI agents on the case looked much like you might expect-their gear announcing their roles as FBI terrorism experts, bomb techs, and evidence collectors. In short order, however, our presence took on a decidedly different hue.

Philip Masters, True Amateur of History, Dies at 70
Mr. Masters, whose jobs ranged from jewelry salesman to lighting executive to cabdriver to stockbroker, was that unusual amateur who succeeds in a professionalized field. Leona Helmsley, Hotel Queen, Is Dead at 87 Imprisoned for tax evasion and fraud, Mrs. Helmsley was widely regarded as a 1980s symbol of […]

Turning Point Against the Mob
Capone was history. “Lucky” Luciano’s luck had run out when he was deported. And Murder Inc. and its hit men were out of business. By the late ’40s we’d scored some major successes against the mob, but the turning point would come in the ’50s and beyond with our growing use of intelligence

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