Episode 149: The Dirty Physician - Part 1
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Gear up for this one listeners! Arkansas Special Agent John Jones is part of a six-person task force that covers three counties and three major police departments. Jones said the lab is ramping up and while they’re a small team, they have no backlog to speak of. That’s because they prioritize which cases their team takes on, “not that your lawnmower being stolen is not important, but it’s not important enough to backlog us,” Jones said.
In 2022, the task force worked on a landmark case with the suspect, Barry Walker. It started when a group of girls told authorities they’d been molested by the former physician and the assault had been captured on video.
Police recovered more than 60 devices from Walker’s home with a search warrant, including cellphones, tablets and a full, three-terabyte hard drive. Extraction of the devices revealed Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM). One of the devices had 1.27 million homemade pictures and videos. Investigators were able to determine that many of the victims were sedated at the time they were pictured or recorded, “We had victims that didn’t even know they were victims. And it was all because of what we found electronically,” Jones said.
Walker was arrested in June 2022 and plead guilty just four months later in October due to the overwhelming digital evidence, and he had to, there was no doubt we had so much evidence from the electronic side that he had no other option about the plea,” Jones said.
Walker’s sentence is the longest in the history of Arkansas and it stands as the sixth longest in the U.S.
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