Special Agent Jim Connolly

In 2015, Jim Connolly stated, "I didn't think marines would do something like this," when interviewed by "The Stars and Stripes" newspaper. On April 26, 2006, seven marines and one Navy Corpsman entered a house in Hamdinia, Iraq and took a disabled Iraqi Police Officer from his bed, outside and executed him in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) crater. Connolly and his team would arrive on May 7th to conduct a death investigation after complaints from villagers about the incident surfaced with U.S. Marines leadership. The case would take an abrupt turn after one of the suspects confessed that the circumstances of the incident were not what that were originally portrayed to be which was the killing of a terrorist digging a hole and planting an IED. This case would put the agents to the test on the use of a new technique called the "the Combat Crime Scene." Jim Connolly was an excellent agent serving most of his career in the Northwest Field Office, serving as an Agent Afloat on the USS Nimitz for more that 500 days at sea. When the tough case came through, Jim was the Agent to call.