Show Notes
Episode #037 Please welcome Assistant to the Special Agent in Charge, ATSAIC Brad Beeler.
Special Agent Beeler started his career in the Chicago Field Office in the counterfeit and organized crime squads, he then became a polygrapher where he started the next phase of his career doing polygraph examinations. He then went on to serve on the Bush Protective Division as a shift agent and shift leader. After completing his assignment in protection, SA Beeler became a polygraph examiner in the St. Louis Field Office; where he assisted state and local law enforcement by conducting hundreds of child exploitation and homicide polygraph examinations, conducted USSS applicant screening and criminal and protective intelligence examinations throughout the United States. SA Beeler now is assigned as the Secret Service liaison at the federal polygraph school, where he serves as the course manager/instructor for interview techniques. He routinely speaks at regional and national conferences on topics related to polygraph, child exploitation investigations, and elicitation techniques. SA Beeler received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Criminology from the University of Missouri – St. Louis. SA Beeler is the recipient of the 2019 Forensic Hero Award and the 2015 Secret Service Special Agent of the Year Award.
Hosted, Produced, and Edited by: Cody Starken, Associate Producer and Assistant Editor: Starr Vazquez
This episode is sponsored by the United States Secret Service. www.secretservice.gov
Special Thanks to ATSAIC Brad Beeler for his time and support, and FSD for their support.
Music is “Nova Police” by Hermelin, found here: www.hermelin.bandcamp.com/track/nova- police. The music used in the podcast was altered from the original soundtrack by cutting specific sections of the music to create the intro and outro of the podcast. This work Attribution-Noncommercial-sharealike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US), which license definition is located here: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0
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