Trained to read what others miss.

James R Fitzgerald is a retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent and one of the bureau's most respected profilers. His forensic linguistic analysis was central to the identification of Ted Kaczynski as the Unabomber — work that helped pioneer an entire field within federal investigation.

Over a career spanning decades, James worked some of the most consequential cases in modern American crime, training the next generation of profilers along the way.

Raymond Carr served as an FBI Special Agent for over two decades, with deep experience in interrogation, behavioral analysis, and major case investigation.

On Cold Red, Ray brings the operational side of federal investigation — how cases are actually built, how suspects are actually read, and what investigators are trained to do when the evidence isn't obvious.