Brad Garrett

Brad Garrett is a renowned investigator who has handled some of the countries most significant criminals cases. He has obtained confessions from World Trade Center bombers, the CIA double homicide shooter and one the Washington area Sniper subjects. Brad Garrett takes pride in his personal, hands-on involvement as an investigator in some of the most extraordinary cases in the past 20 years. He has developed the interpersonal, intellectual, and investigative skills to render a comprehensive analysis of witnesses, crime scenes, and personalities. Brad Garrett has acquired a degree of judgment that borne of personal experiences as an investigator on complex, high profile and emotionally intense cases. He has consulted nationally and internationally on numerous homicide and sexual assault cases. In addition to over 30 years of experience, Garrett hold a PhD in Criminology from the University of Louisville. He has considerable experience dealing with reporters and media outlets. Mr. Garrett was the subject of MSNBC's Headliners and Legends in 2002.

Mr. Garrett's career in the FBI was concentrated in homicide, sexual assault, kidnapping cases and hostage negotiation incidents. For 17 years, Garrett was the primary Field Profiler for the FBI at the Washington Field Office as well as the Hostage Negotiation Coordinator. He has consulted for police departments and prosecutors both in the U.S. and internationally on crime scene analysis, investigative strategies, interviewing and interrogation techniques, forensic analysis, and the comprehensive analysis of "cold case" homicides.                        

Mr. Garrett successfully investigated the CIA murders in which a lone gunman brazenly shot into CIA employee's vehicles while they waited at a stop light. An international manhunt ensued that resulted in Mr. Garrett and his team capturing the perpetrator, Mir Aimal Kansi. The manhunt for Kansi led around the globe for 4 ½ years, culminating in a daring raid into a remote hotel in Pakistan. Mr. Garrett personally obtained a signed confession from Mr. Kansi who was later convicted.                        

In July 1997, three store employees were executed in a Starbucks coffee shop in Washington, D.C.'s affluent Georgetown neighborhood. Mr. Garrett's team identified the main shooter through a multitude of investigative techniques and built a federal racketeering case against the suspect. The killer later plead guilty to life without parole, to avoid the death penalty.                        

Mr. Garrett obtained the confession from Ramzi Yousef, the first World Trade Center bomber. He also obtained the confession of the Washington area sniper Lee Boyd Malvo. Mr. Garrett relied on his innovative interviewing techniques, resulting in confessions from these high profile subjects.                          

In coordination with the Republic of Georgia authorities, Mr. Garrett leads a team of investigators in the identification, persecution and conviction in Tbilisi, Georgia of an individual who tossed a live hand grenade near U.S. President George W. Bush in May 2005. Confronted with a crime scene of several thousand people, Garrett methodically reviewed photos of the entire crowd in an effort to profile a likely suspect. The subject was located in Tbilisi, taken into custody and he confessed to Mr. Garrett. Garrett testified in the Georgian trial and the subject was sentenced to life.