Episode 069: Gina Davis and Ted Jones – Triple Murder, Safe Streets Taskforce

In this episode, retired agent Gina Davis and Maryland State Trooper and homicide detective Ted Jones, a 10-year task force member, review how the team solved a cold case murder of the execution-style shooting of three young women. The women’s bodies were left in a secluded area off a rural route in Laurel, Maryland. Because the location was on federal land, the case was initially investigated by the U.S. Park Police and later assigned to the Safe Streets Taskforce. The task force was able to gather the evidence needed to charge the three men responsible for the murders.

Gina worked this case while serving as the acting supervisor of a Safe Streets Task Force operating out of the Calverton, Maryland satellite office of the Baltimore field office.

Special Agent (Retired)

Gina Davis

6/1988 – 1/2013

Gina Davis served 25 years with the FBI. She began her Bureau career on a Violent Crimes and Drug Trafficking Crimes Squad in Albany, New York. After a long-term undercover assignment in the Baltimore Division, Gina Davis received a permanent transfer and continued to investigate drug and violent crimes.

In 1999, Davis was promoted to a supervisory position at FBI Headquarters, managing FBI personnel stationed at Legal Attaches in U.S. embassies in countries around the world. She was promoted again in 2001 and was assigned to the Seattle Division, Tacoma Resident Agency, where she managed all investigative programs in the three offices under her purview. Gina Davis initiated both a Safe Streets Task Force and a Joint Terrorism Task Force during her six-year tenure in Tacoma. Her last assignment was in the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division (CID) where she served as Chief of Staff for the Assistant Director.

Maryland State Trooper (Retired)

Ted Jones

Ted Jones is a former Maryland State Police Homicide Detective and a native of Baltimore City, Maryland. He embraced the reality early in his life of the desire to protect and serve. Witnessing the brutal murder of a Baltimore City Police officer in his hometown as a teenager, failed to deter him from fulfilling his sincerest career desire which he believes was a calling to “Protect and Serve!” Protect and Serve Reflections of a Maryland State Trooper is a shared autobiography of investigative experiences resulting in what is undisputedly a storied police career.

The following are links to newspaper articles about how the success of the Prince George’s County Safe Streets Taskforce led to the conviction of the men responsible for the triple murder of three young women in Prince Georges County, Maryland in 1996:

Baltimore Sun – Judge Gives Man Death