About this season
Where violence and criminals strike, local law enforcement responds, but sometimes help is required. This is when they bring in the specialists - the CIRG. FBI Critical Incident covers the crisis negotiation unit in action with three edge of the seat one-hour case studies:
Episodes (3)
1. Louisiana Prison Riots
Aired 9 February 2001
In December 1999, six Cuban inmates at the St. Martinville prison in Louisiana, used homemade knives to take several guards hostage, and then used the guards to take over the prison control room. They demanded to be freed or sent back to Cuba on the premise that they had finished serving sentences for their crimes but were being held in legal limbo -- immigration wanted to deport them, and the U.S. has no extradition treaty with Cuba.
2. Texas Railroad Killer
Aired 26 March 2001
The true story of the dramatic, high-stakes FBI manhunt for Ramirez Resendez, a dangerous Mexican serial killer who snuck across the border to travel by freight train to his random kill sites throughout the southern United States.
3. Profiler Drug Warfare
Aired 25 July 2002